Conditionally Display Menu Item

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi All,

I would appreciate if someone would show me the way to conditionally display a menu item depending on

the logged in users role? For example if the user is logged in as a regular user I do not want them to even see the

"manage members" menu link. Thanks in advance for your help. BTW I am new to Yii and it is really great!!

-Alex-

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It can easily be done using ‘visible’ property and by defining roles in your controller. For example I don’t want normal authenticated users to see ‘List Users’ link only admin is allowed so I can have following


array('label'=>'List Users', 'icon'=>'list', 'url'=>array('/user/index'), 'visible'=>Yii::app()->user->checkAccess('admin')),

.

Further in controller I have


array('allow', 

'actions'=>array('create', 'index'), 

'roles'=>array('admin'),),

Here admin is role not username.

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Thanks a million!! I will try that!