hot to add a login box only on home page?

Question

I'm trying to add a login box only in home page. Of course, it should disappear when a customer is logged in. So I put this layout update in the home page, but it doesn't work:

<customer_logged_out>
    <reference name="header">
        <block type="customer/form_login" name="header_customer_form_mini_login" template="customer/form/toplink-login-custom.phtml"/>
    </reference>
</customer_logged_out>

It works only:

 <reference name="header">
     <block type="customer/form_login" name="header_customer_form_mini_login" template="customer/form/toplink-login-custom.phtml"/>
  </reference>

But, of course, the box is shown when the customer is logged too.

Answer 1

Use the case in which it works:

<reference name="header">
    <block type="customer/form_login" name="header_customer_form_mini_login" template="customer/form/toplink-login-custom.phtml"/>
</reference>

and just edit the template customer/form/toplink-login-custom.phtml and wrap its contents in an if statement that checks if the customer is logged in or not.

<?php if (!Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn()) : ?>
    <!-- your template here -->
<?php endif;?>

Answer 2

What I did was write a block with a login form then echo it in a hidden div if Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn() == false
And then I make it pop up using Flexslider.

Answer 3

Try to approach that another way. Let's add the block, but when customer is logged in – then remove it.

Go to your app/design/frontend/THEME/THEME/layout/customer.xml

Find section responsible for layouting page when customer is logged in and add remove attribute.

<customer_logged_in>
    <remove name="header_customer_form_mini_login"></remove>
</customer_logged_in>