Hiding private content

[EoinDubh]

I am moving a site from phpWebsite 9.x to CMSMS 1.8.2 and trying to keep the look and feel as similar as possible. I have all the pages created but am running into a problem with managing access to pages that are for members only. I have read Robert Campbell's excelent article on Hiding Private Content in CMS Made Simple and as long as I use the same templates as the article everything works OK. However the site is using the CSSMenu left + 1 column template and the  cssmenu template which is quite different from the simple_navigation template. I have the template working i.e. it redirects to the login page if a user who is not logged in clicks on a restricted link, but I am having a problem with hiding the menu link altogether fron a user that is not logged in.

I think that the issue may be where I am placing the code in the menu template, but so far all I have accomplished is displaying no menu to anyone so I have backed the code out.

For reference, the original site is http://clan-donald-usa.org/cdusa/ and the CMSMS site is [url=http://clan-donald-usa,org/CDCMS/]http://clan-donald-usa,org/CDCMS/[/url].

Thanks in advance for ant pointers.

[ChrisF]

You can use a smarty if/else tag in your template around the link. If the user is logged in it displays the link, if not it is either blank or displays something else.

[EoinDubh]

After thinking it over, I decided to leave things as they are for now. If someone is a member of the organization and has not yet requested a login they can at least see all the menu items and if they try to access a restricted item they get the login page. So that works.