Question

When users log in, their sessions are set like so:

HttpContext.Current.Session["LoggedIn"] = true;
HttpContext.Current.Session["FullName"] = (string)Reader["FirstName"] + " " + (string)Reader["LastName"];

My Site.master file contains a navigation menu that’s site-wide, and I’d like to change it to show different links depending on if the user is logged in or not.

Something like this in Site.master:

<div id="navigation">
    <ul>
    <% 
        if (HttpContext.Current.Session["LoggedIn"] != null)
        {
            %><li><a href="/user74/aspnet/Logout.aspx">Log out</a></li><%
        }
        else
        {
            %>
                <li><a href="/user74/aspnet/Register.aspx">Register</a></li>
                <li><a href="/user74/aspnet/Login.aspx">Log in</a></li>
            <%
        }
    %>
    </ul>
</div>

However, this doesn’t seem to work. Looks like you can’t use ASP tags like PHP tags.

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Seems like you are more in to PHP,For starters I recommend you go for the normal .NET process

1.Write HTML in aspx page,replace HTML ‘a’ with asp:linkbutton ,likr

<div id="navigation">
 <ul>
  <li><asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton2" runat="server" PostBackUrl="/user74/aspnet/Logout.aspx">Log out</asp:LinkButton></li>
 </ul>
</div>

2.Write codes in pagename.aspx.cs page,in your case write session checks in page_load event

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (HttpContext.Current.Session["LoggedIn"] != null)
    {
        LinkButton1.Visible = true;
    }
}