#71 - Hide a menu item when user logs in

There are times when you need to hide specific menu items when a user has logged on to your Joomla website. This cannot be done using standard functionality, we the following is a simple workaround to allow you to cheat by hiding the menu item when a user logs in. 

If you want to hide a whole module eg the menu you can used the trick here: #3 - Hiding a menu once logged in

So what do we do to hide the menu item for logged in users? A combination of using the Joomla framework (getUser) and a CSS trick (display:none) to hide items. In your template place the following code:

<?php endif; ?>

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wexplorer18  - where do I have to add the code?   |79.31.198.xxx |2009-09-16 10:40:14 Hello, thank you very much for your tip That's exacly what I was looking for for the Log-in menu item of the restricted area. where do I have to add the peace of code above? I tryed it at different positions in the file index.php with no success Thank you, regards

joestange   |68.104.178.xxx |2009-11-19 09:19:45 Your code breaks the site. It gives a parse error. I have tried it on 4 sites.

DART   |Administrator |2009-11-19 10:34:32 Well, i've tested it and it works. Unfotunately, templates are typically so different from each other, that what works on one, does not necessarily work on another. The code here basically gives you a hint on the direction you need to take when trying to do this.

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