Inlcuding custom_footer if not a user

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 383

I seem to be acumulating more ads on my site which I'm placing in the custom_footer.php file.
This file is 'included' by mainfile.
I thought it might be a simple matter of wrapping the include like this

Code:

if(!is_user($user)) {
@include_once(INCLUDE_PATH.'includes/custom_files/custom_mainfile.php');
}

But that still displays the content of custom_footer regardless of whether I am logged in or not.
Although I was pretty sure the is_user function would be loaded before it gets to the include I tried moving the include to the bottom of mainfile to be sure but that didn't work either.

Anyone have any ideas?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

Actually, custom_footer.php has to be called from footer.php. But, I checked, and it has $user in the globals statement, so that it odd.

I am confused by your including of custom_mainfile.php. Isn't that included within mainfile.php?

I would think that if you wrapped your ad code within custom_footer.php with the if (!is_user($user)) statement should work. However, you might want to just try and also add at the top of custom_footer.php a

global $user

Just to be sure it also gets here.

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 383

Good idea!
I'm not using a custom_mainfile.php, I'm working in the core mainfile.php Smile

I'll take a look at footer.php because mainfile seems to be including it with an if file exist, then include it.

The problem is that custom_footer.php has both php and plain html code in it so it drops in and out of the parser (there a fair amount of jaba stuff which I don't really want to convert).
As it drops out of the parser I cannot therefore use a php function to wrap it - atleast I don't think you can as it didn't work.

I thought the easiest way therefore would be to just add an is_user check before actually including the file at all but strangely that failed.

I'll definitely look into global $user and maybe add it again - thanks for that.

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 383

Hot diggety dam, I need to learn to read! Embarassed

mainfile.php doesn't call an include to custom_footer.php at all

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

Custom_footer.php is included within footer.php, so within the foot() function, just wrap that include?

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 383

Yep I did it as you were posting Smile

Thats better, users now do not have to see all the garbage in the footer but the search engines can.

I just need to tweak the existing 'real' footer to get the linkbacks for yours and Kev's site.

Hmm, in fact I'm going to create another custom_footer so I can use one for SEO and paid for text links and the other for users Smile

Wish I had done this a long time ago Smile

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

No worries m8. Glad its working!