gray out graphic when user does not have permission

[littlebitofnc]

Situation:
Using MySQL database for a membership site. Pages are written in HTML. A Standard membership level is not going to have the option to view photo albums of other members (after 3 days of activating their membership). On the profile page, there are 2 graphics inside a table for the photo albums - one for Private Album and one for Public Album.

Question:
What would the scripting be to make the photo album graphics grayed out for standard members so they could not even click on them?

Cindy
Little_Bit@fmtc.net

 

[vbkris]

sorry, that would have to be server side coding..

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[dkdude]

Hi Cindy,

Javascript is a client side language. This means that the "source code" will always be visible to anyone looking for it. So initially I would say that you can't use javascript to handle your problem 100%.

I would let the web server handle user authentication. If you're on an Apache server, then this is relatively easy. In this case the buzzword is ".htaccess". You can google ".htaccess" or have a look in the Apache forum at tek-tips : forum65

... or you can have a talk with your server support/ISP.

Regards


Jakob