Hiding link from anonymous users

Question

How can I hide a particular link in the main menu from anonymous users without making the whole menu invisible?

Answer 1

You don't so much configure the visibility of links directly, but rather you configure the permissions of specific content types, and any link to content of a particular type will either be visible or invisible depending on the permissions of the content the link points to.

You can configure the permissions on any given piece of content by going into the Permissions section in Administration and finding the content type you want to restrict permissions on, and configure those permissions (check boxes for view, create, edit, etc..) based on role appropriately.

If you need to configure access to specific nodes/content, then you might have a look at Content Access.

Answer 2

You can do this easily with a little bit of elbow grease!

There are two hooks for this depending on if your menu is generated by a module or by Drupal itself. In a custom module you would use either hook_menu or hook_menu_alter.

These two hooks have a parameter, access callback where you can give it a function that returns a BOOL. If the function returns TRUE, access is allowed and menu link is shown. If FALSE is returned, access is not allowed and menu link not displayed.

//Small example
function <your_module>_menu_alter(&$items) {
  // Example - disallow access for anonymous to node 15 from custom module
  $items['node/15']['access callback'] = '_accessCheck';
}

Then, further down you define the callback:

function _acccessCheck(){
  global $user;
  if ($user->uid) { // user is logged in
    return TRUE;
  } // Anonymous
    return FALSE;
}

Hope this helps, happy coding!

Answer 3

you could restrict users to see some of the menu links by using Menu per role module.
It allows you to restrict access to menu items based on user roles. So you could hide a particular menu link from a particular role and show it to others.

Answer 4

You can do it manually. Maybe, it isn't the best form, but it may fix you problem temporarily.
You can add a JavaScript file to you main .tpl.php. In this file you can play with the parent and children elements of you code (http://api.jquery.com/parent), by JavaScript methods. So, first you have to get your element, by something like #idelement (it may be positioned in the menu code between all the leafs of the menu) and then hide the element by .hide(). Also, you have to add to your code that the JavaScript file added to the .tpl.php only if the user is logged in. Like:

if(user_is_logged_in()){
   drupal_add_js(yourjSFile);
}    

I repeat that is a temporary solution.
If you modified your code or element in the menu, this solution also must be modified.
This will only hide a menu item, and not the content types.

Answer 5

http://drupal.org/project/content_access works really well for me with Drupal 7.22.

It even hides the main menu links pointing to restricted content.