I am trying to include a different admin navigation theme file depending on the permissions of the administration group logged into the backend area. I tried doing the code with just smarty but had difficulty, so I thought I could make it happen using php. However, when I try and include a file containing smarty code, it doesnt render it correctly - the smart code in the included files gets displayed to the browser.

What am I doing wrong, and also, how could the below be performed using just smarty coding?

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Note, I also had to use relative paths to include the theme files which doesnt seem right - smarty includes them like
<{include file="default/navigation/theme_adminnav.html"}>

I don't know if you have to do it with the php but try this and see if it works. It looks like you are missing < > for your includes.

<{php}>
global $xoopsUser;
if ($xoopsUser) {
$groups = $xoopsUser->getGroups();
$special_group_id = 4;
if (in_array($special_group_id,$groups))
<{
include file="default/navigation/theme_adminnav_special.html"
}> else
<{
include file=""default/navigation/theme_adminnav.html"}>

}
<{/php}>

Quest,
That didnt work for me. However, I did get it to work in a sortof convoluted way, by closing the php tag before including the smarty file, and then opening the php tag again.

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Surely there is a more elegant way of doing this?