Thanks Stephen - that works (nearly!)

Here's what I have now:

$option = JRequest::getVar('option');
if ( $option == "com_uddeim" && $user->usertype == "Registered" ) return 46; else return 63;

For some reason though, the else function doesn't seem to kick in. I thought I could just add another line with the alternative user group like so:

$option = JRequest::getVar('option');
if ( $option == "com_uddeim" && $user->usertype == "Subscriber" ) return 63;

But that doesn't seem to do anything - could this be anything to do with the non-standard user groups I have configured with JACL? If they are named, I wouldn't have thought so, but I don't know enough about it.

Thanks again.

James

Hi Stephen,

unfortunately it doesn't reveal anything I didn't already know.

Here's the thing causing the problem, I think. I'm trying to show a main navigation menu depending on the class of user, so public and registered see one menu and subscribers and members another. They are both published in the same position but the members menu has access rights set in JACL, so it's access isn't set by Joomla core.

So menu 46 is public, but menu 63 is accesssed by members/subscribers.

So going through and trying each line of code individually (I'm sure there's probably a better, shorter way of doing it):

if ( $option == "com_finder" && $user->usertype == "" ) return 46;
if ( $option == "com_finder" && $user->usertype == "Registered" ) return 46;
if ( $option == "com_finder" && $user->usertype == "Subscriber" ) return 63;
if ( $option == "com_finder" && $user->usertype == "Member" ) return 63;

Now I know this works, because if I change the 63 to 46, the "public" menu appears, but it won't show the non-public one. Even if I create a new metaMod module, put the member-menu code in it and give the module restricted access right, it still doesn't appear.

I'm at a loss to get this to work, so any ideas on what I'm doing wrong would be appreciated.

Thanks,

James