Evaluating a page in a different order

Hey all, I have a php page class that i use as a template for my website. Every page in my website creates an instance of the class and passes values like title and meta tag keywords. The class includes the layout from different files e.g. title.lay contains the title and logo. In the top right hand corner of my page i have a login status, which displays if the user is logged in or not. This is included as loginstatus.lay by the class. If the page performs a php scripting function, it is included in the main content area. This main content area comes after the loginstatus.lay, so is evaluated afterwards. My problem is when creating a logout page. The loginstatus is displayed as logged in, but the main content area logouts out the user. The reason i designed the class and page layout like this is because i wanted to seperate the design and code as much as possible. As a temporary solution i have added some code to loginstatus.lay, but this is edging towards including code in the layout files which i dont want. If i havent confused you too much, is there anything else you can suggest? you can look at the page layout at http://www.pickledshark.co.uk/EdgeDB/login.php Thanks for reading Carey