How to make DRY status-aware navbars?

For my webapp, I need to make the navbar status-aware and adapts to many combinations: whether the user is logged-in or not, its role (admin, user, guest, ...), etc.

Injecting multi-nested ifs and function calls in HTML makes me cringe and I want to keep my code as clean and DRY as possible, for easy maintenance.

So, I thought of writing a function to automate the process. Something that would look like this :

public function insertButtons(array $buttons) {
    foreach($buttons as $button) {
        echo "<a href='" . $button['url'] . "'>". $button['text'] . "</a>";
    }
}

So that I can craft the $buttons in the Controller:

if($_SESSION['loggedin']) {
    $buttons[] = array('url' => '/profile', 'text' => $_SESSION['username']);
    $buttons[] = array('url' => '/logout', 'text' => 'Log out');
} else { 
    // ...
}

And then inject them in the HTML:

<div class="nav navbar">
    <!-- ... -->
    <?php insertButtons($buttons); ?>
    <!-- ... -->
</div>

The drawback for such a solution is, of course, the lack of flexibility.

Are there any known patterns to be used in these situations? If yes, what are they or where can I find information about them. If not, is my pseudo-code a viable solution?