Question

[dosbubba]

If you have a website where the header (/app/views/layout/header.php) is different for logged in users and not logged in users, how would you implement that?

The difference is one header for anonymous users that contains a Sign In button and a drop down menu of other account options and one that contains Log Out button instead for logged in users.

I can think of 2 possible solutions:

1. Pass the data to the view through the $data[] associative array. (ex: $data['loggedin] = 0 or 1 for true and false). Then add the logic (an if statement) within /app/views/layout/header.php to render the right content. Is it appropriate to put if statement logic within a view?

2. Have the Model call a different view if user is logged in (for example: /app/views/layout/header.php and /app/views/layout/user_header.php).

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

[ahegazy]

Hey,
It's been a while since i last checked the project, but i took a quick look and I think the second solution would be better for modularity .

You already have $loggedUser variable in /app/core/Controller.php so you can just modify the view function to include different header in case the user is logged in.

[dosbubba]

Thank you. This project has helped me a lot with learning PHP MVC.

[ahegazy]

Happy to hear that, you are welcome.