I wanted some suggestions from someone with experience in php.
I am making a website in php which will have 4 kinds of users : 1. guest(unregistered), 2. registered, 3. registered with special privilages, 4. admins
So the same page will be visible differently to all four of them.
Right now I am doing that by using if conditions.
In every page, I am checking the role of the user and then using many if statements to display the page accordingly.
It makes the code very big and untidy and I have to check conditions again and again in all the pages.
Is there a better way to do this?
How is this done in big professional websites?
Extended Question: What is the most optimal way to do the same using a MVC framework like kohana 3.1? Does it have anything to do with
acl?