Wholesale userid queries
 

Merry Christmas guys. :D

On our site we deal with both the general public and more increasingly trade customers.

What I am looking to do is to give the appearance that the site has a trade only section with a trade login page for trade customers to login to.

Is it possible to have a login page which will only allow wholesale userids to login and restrict the login of other memberships? I am assuming that an 'if' statement would be required but does anyone know the 'if' statement that would work for this situation :-k

Also is it possible to have certain sections visable only when a wholesale userid logs in i.e. within the head.tpl I want to display the default top_menu.tpl at all times except when a wholesale user logs in where I would want to to replace the default top_menu.tpl with an amended .tpl called top_menu_trade.tpl. I have attempted the following logic

{if $usertype eq "C"}
{include file="customer/top_menu.tpl"}
{/if}

{if $usertype eq "B"}
{include file="customer/top_menu_trade.tpl"}
{/if}

Unfortunatelty this does not work as there is no change whether a regular or trade userid logs in. Can anyone advise what am I doing wrong??

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

heres a starter

http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?p=69941#69941

user type B is for partners

you would need to check something like