Welcome and Logout

I have just recently purchased PC and have begun creating a custom header. One item that I can't seem to figure out is how to impliment a session identifier that when a customer logs in, a line of text with "Welcome (customer name)" is shown somewhere in the header.

I would also like to make a logout link appear when a customer is logged in and disappear when they are logged out.

I'm no web expert, but I am fimiliar with Dreamweaver (which is what I'm using currently), so I have only a limited knowledge of .asp and html programming. I was trying to impliment some of the elements from CustPref.asp but I was only able to have the customer name appear and disappear based on their login. "Welcome" and "Logout" would remain even though I am no longer logged in as a customer.

Thanks for you help in advance. I look forward to many years of working with PC and this great forum. It's a shame that it has taken me over 1.5 years to actually purchase PC. I should have done it sooner.

Regards

-Chris

With a little trial and error, I figured it out. The code below displays either the current user (Guest or the customers name after they log in) with both "Login / Register" or "Your Account / Log Out" below the user. I created a class ".footernav" to tell how the text and links would display. These links as well as others in my footer share the same display properties.

<div class="footernav" id="myAccount">
     <div align="right">Welcome
        <%
        ' Display Name of customer if logged in
        if session("idCustomer")="0" or session("idCustomer")="" then%> Guest!<br>
        <% else %>
        <strong><%=session("pcStrCustName") & "!"%><br>
        <a href="custPref.asp">Your Account</a>  /</span>  <a href="CustLO.asp">Log Out</a>
        <% end if %>
        <%
        ' If the customer is not an affiliate and is not logged in
        ' show a link to the registration page.
        if session("idCustomer")="0" or session("idCustomer")="" then%>
        <a href="custPref.asp">Login</a>  /</span >  <a href="custPref.asp">Register</a>
        <% end if %>
    </div>
</div>

Thanks to the forum members for previously helping out others with the same issue.

Regards,
-Chris

Hi Jackalope,

I was wondering where you inserted the code described above? Was it header.asp?

Thanks,

Alan