[SOLVED] showing content based on if logged in

I only want to display custom fields to logged in users.. others that are guests, that are not logged in.. will not see the custom filelds... how can this done on the template level?

like

          {if userloggedin}
          <h2 class="giTitle">Custom Field</h2>
          {/if}

I hope i am making myself somewhat understandable..

any help that can be given to me will be greatly appreciated...

i guess this is a fairly popular request (having something like {g->isRegisteredUser}, or {g->isAdmin} don't you think?

maybe we could create a module for this instead... at least for now.. i wouldnt really like to start changing source code around to get this to work more effiently on the template level.. and since we are in BETA.. i would like the files to be intact at least intill final release.. perhaps just writing out a function that we could call on any template page a member function where maybe we could get the users info like either they are logged in or not amongst other things.. would add more dynamic flare to this... we could force certain themes to be used by certain groups..

I really have not looked at the DB structure yet to see if this stuff is actually stored there or not.... or is it stored in flat file somehwere? I know G1 was totally flatfile.. so i really do not know how much G2 really leaned on the DB..

What I am also trying to do is.. instead of showing custom fields to logged in users.. i also only wanting to show the

$layout.item.description

description field as well.... I can see from the example above you are just looking at the url to know to show the custom field or not.. or am i wrong?

please help... thanks alot in advance

I guess if i really could understand the variable scope being used in these templates.. i wouldnt be asking these lame questions...

it seems to me that the above example checks to see if the custom field module is being used and then making sure the user is logged in.. then if both are true.. then the custom fields are shown... but can i really use the same technique for the description?

    {if !empty($layout.itemDetailFiles)}
    {foreach from=$layout.itemDetailFiles key=moduleId item=detailFile}

    {if $moduleId!='description' || $layout.user.id!=4}

    {include file="gallery:$detailFile" l10Domain="modules_$moduleId"}

    {/if}

    {/foreach}
    {/if}

please excuse my stupidity...

itemDetailFiles are additional content added by modules.. comments, custom fields, exif all use item detail content to display stuff below the album/image.
description isn't part of the itemDetailFiles loop.. look elsewhere in the tpl for where description is displayed.. you can put {if $layout.user.id!=4} .... {/if} around anything you want only shown to logged in users.

ok.. using the below example has no effect on showing description info to user logged in or not..

{if $layout.user.id!=4}

    {if !empty($layout.item.description)}

            <p class="giDescription">
              {$layout.item.description|markup}
            </p>     
 
    {/if}

{/if}

what gives?

ok... {$layout.user.id} does in fact equal 4... but still.... no luck...

admin equals 5

but for some strange reason we cant use the {if} conditional to choose wether or not to display the information field.. or really.. anything for that matter... becasue it doesnt work for custom field either...

Maybe It would help to say that I only have two users..

admin

and

guest

I also have only 3 groups.. and those are

All Users
Everybody
Site Admins

I also would like to know what is in the $layout[user] array.. would group id be in there.. it would be much easier to do than member id...

:D