User Management
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Hi All, New to Frog, but I like what I am seeing. I plan to use it for a couple of jobs I'm working on at the moment. One of the big plugins that I think I'll need to add is more indepth user management - i.e. allow users to register with the and require login to view certain pages of the site. Anyone else interested in such a plugin? Or anyone wanting to help out? Cheers SG |
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You're right to think that "user management" is currently at a fairly basic level. This has been discussed somewhat in this thread and Andy seems to have come up with a simple solution which may be sufficient for the moment. Maybe some collaboration can be worked out...?? Hope so! |
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Yeah, while it's a step in the right direction - it is not something I would be able to use. In my head so far, I think I'd need about 4 different pages/plugins/snippets: 1. A registration page (which can be customised by the admin for what fields to include and what fields are required. 2. A login/logout snippet that handles the user sessions and gives the user access to the required pages 3. A profile page that allows the user to update their details 4. Something that allows the Admin to set what pages the user has access to, what page to be shown when the user has logged in.. Basically a settings/admin page. Thoughts people? Cheers SG |
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@SG - just to be clear, when you said in post #1, "i.e. allow users to register with the and require login to view certain pages of the site", do you mean view backend or frontend? That is, is this user management to provide authoring access, or simply (frontend) viewing access? Sorry to be so thick! :) |
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@SG & @David: Andy's solution is not secure and I would recommend against using a solution like that @SG & @Phillippe: would it be possible to get the backend's user management system on the frontend side? then it would be a simple matter of writing an auto-registration system to add users. For the rest we could simply reuse the backend user management system? |
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@ David - Yeah, for frontend. @ mvdkleijn - While I'm still learning how Frog is set up, I have found the classes/functions that handle the user management so we should be able to use them for the frontend side. For the back end, we can just extend on the current user management - but depending on if Phillippe would prefer to keep the current setup and offer an extended option as a plugin? |
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(On a side note, I'll try my hand over the next few days at a Frontend search plugin just to learn some of the Frog ways.. and to brush up on my php..) |
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I'm sure a plugin can be written for that !!! this will make the core as simple as possible !! because it is not everyone that need this feature. |