Login Form

adam · 08.06.2004, 17:38

I've asked this question in another forum and no-one has answered my post so I thought I'd try it here. I am building an intranet site for my company using Mambo 4.5. I am trying to figure out how to have "registered menu items" appear in the front end without having the login form present on the home page. I'm guessing it can be done but I'm not sure. I don't want staff to see the login form and try using but I want the site admin to be able to access menu items when they preview the site that the public can't see. Please help me if you can. Thanks.

zorkhh · 08.06.2004, 18:18

Hi,

i hope, i understand your problem. You want the possibility to login but you don't want to show the form to all users. Right?

If so, just change the Login-Module-Position to an unused value (as user2) and place "user2" directly under "mainbody" in your index.php. Then create a content-typed page called "login" or whatever you like. Last select this page from the "Page(s)"-Listbox in the Login-module.

Now you have an single page for login and the loginbox doesn't appear on any other page.

hth

Zork

adam · 08.06.2004, 22:03

That's a good way to do it as well, I never thought of it like that. What I was looking more towards was being able to login as an administrator and have the front end recognize that I'm logged in as the admin and give me access to all of the registered menu items etc. Any idea if this is possible?

pixelsoul · 08.06.2004, 22:13

Well you can hide the login box from users like here..

http://www.jasonmurphy.net/

hidden on the left top menu....

and then disable registration.

zorkhh · 08.06.2004, 23:59

@adam: hmm, i really don't know, if i understand your problem. Do you want to switch from the administration area (www.yourdomain.com/administrator/) to the frontend and mambo still keep you looged in? If so, i don't know if it's possible.

@pixelsoul: if it's there, it's hidden very good. Where is a login-box there?

Zork

tonyskyday · 09.06.2004, 05:38

Or you just give out the url of http://yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_login

Or even make it a "hidden" link on your site.

-Tony

pixelsoul · 09.06.2004, 10:44

Look into the source...

(click on the little round on the bar above the menu)

Quote:

Originally Posted by zorkhh

@adam: hmm, i really don't know, if i understand your problem. Do you want to switch from the administration area (www.yourdomain.com/administrator/) to the frontend and mambo still keep you looged in? If so, i don't know if it's possible.

@pixelsoul: if it's there, it's hidden very good. Where is a login-box there?

Zork

wroxbox · 09.06.2004, 13:21

I dont't have the loginbox anywhere at my site (as a module), but some content are configured with accesslevel "registered"..

So when user goes to that page he gets an message "You are not authorized to view this resource."

So I changed that message in /language/english.php to this

PHP Code:

  DEFINE("_NOT_AUTH","You are not authorized to view this resource. Pleace <a href='index.php?option=com_login'>login</a> or <a href='index.php?option=registration&task=register'>register</a> to the site");

AND

And made some changes to /components/com_login/ files explained here:
http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=9303

Now she/he clicks the link to "login" and after login he gets to page he requested!

Warewolf66 · 13.12.2004, 21:16

Hey Pixelsoul,

I like that hidden login. How do you do that. Can you give an explanation....that is really cool.

Thanks!