Authorising Users

[ashishmen]

I want users to register on the site (with username and password) at the home page for accessing rest of the pages. Once they register, the access should be automatic & instant. Do I have to create a form to capture their information and then authenticate users (manually or batch), before they can access? But that will lead to time gap between registeration and access & will require admin intervention everytime. How will the Member Login object check and verify the username & password?

I have gone through tutorial at www.vodahost.com/sholaunch.html but got confused or missing some point.

[Karen Mac]

Re: Authorising Users

First you have to have a join or some way of gathering the info. Then you have to make a group in the user area and add them to the group and assign a password. Then, you must create some sort of a login, and then the pages you want only accessed by them in properties you must assign to that group.

Karen

[ashishmen]

Re: Authorising Users

If I understand correctly, the user information & assigned password has to be added to the group manually for each user by admin. Can it be made automatic, without admin intervention?

[Jeremy]

Re: Authorising Users

You are going to need some .php scripts here. It's what will keep your site secure with the username and password. If you use .php, if people find the link, it won't show you the page unless they sign in if you know what I mean.

Let me show you George's website that you can go check out, he has a great system that you can go learn more about.

http://www.dbtechnosystems.com/

[Karen Mac]

Re: Authorising Users

Its probably less headache to buy this addon.. pretty reasonable actually

https://addons.soholaunch.com/index.php?pr=View_Addon&addonid=159

Karen

[davidundalicia]

Re: Authorising Users

I have just the system that you are looking for......
If you wish to try out a demo please visit Register Now Demo

[Karen Mac]

Re: Authorising Users

David,

Will it work in SOHO? SOHO is crazy about its forms, it has to have their coding incorporated!!!

Karen

[davidundalicia]

Re: Authorising Users

You can link from soho to your bvform, do whats required and then link back to soho.....at least that is my understanding.....I have never used soho!!

Please correct me if I am mistaken...............

[Karen Mac]

Re: Authorising Users

Yes, you can do it via LINKS but you cant put the code in a page within soho, which is what I was trying to say, and if you do it outside of soho, soho wont have access to the table that AUTO generates the code, so they wont be able to login until he manually gives them access.. if that makes sense to you?

Karen

[davidundalicia]

Re: Authorising Users

The linked page (Register now) handles the automatic creation of the passwords, and sends an email link, which must be clicked before allowing
Log in which links back into the soho links.....

So, no form in soho, no form problems.!!!!!

[Karen Mac]

Re: Authorising Users

The linked page (Register now) handles the automatic creation of the passwords, and sends an email link, which must be clicked before allowing
Log in which links back into the soho links.....

So, no form in soho, no form problems.!!!!!

David,

But the PASSWORDS wont be authenticated IN SOHO is what im trying to tell you, so how would SOHO know what they are so that they could login into SOHO pages??? Soho wont be connected to the database so passwords wont do them any good.

Karen

[Karen Mac]

Re: Authorising Users

Only way that would work is if he used one or two passwords and user names for everyone and the database sent out those same two etc.. Then it would work, but he would still have to manually go set up those Mock Users in soho with the user name and passwords and mock emails. User names and passwords wouldnt be unique then, nor could he assign them to specific groups

Karen

[Bethers]

Re: Authorising Users

David, he would also have to have pages in BV on THIS site to do this - and most who build in Soho don't.

I think the Soho add-on is the way to go.

[navaldesign]

Re: Authorising Users

A third party loggin script can be implemented in a page, by placing a couple of lines of code in the start of page. Whilst in BV this is very easy, and the code remains in the page whenever you make changes, i have not been able to find in Soho a way of easily implementing code in the Start of Page. If there is a way of doing it (which i don't know because i don't use Soho) then it will be also possible to add any loggin script to Soho. If not, it would require manually adding the code in a php code editor (or simply notepad, or through your File Manager) and then saving and uploading the page code again. However, if a change was made to the page, it would delete the code added.

Karen, is there a way of adding code in Soho's start of page, directly as Drag and drop an object in the page ?

[Karen Mac]

Re: Authorising Users

Naval,

You can do customized includes Ie: html, scripts, php etc as a drag and drop. However, I believe this alone wouldnt work because you would also have to edit in the includes files to accept this script and to write to the database, however, if youd like to play with a page let me know and ill let you in one of my soho stores to look around. Youd also have to look in my voda cpanel so you could go into the soho includes to see what i mean. You could also look in their FORM scripting this way to see how they format the current form scripting. Thats how they MAKE the addons.. I just havent had time to REALLY play and learn this end of it, i can do simple adjustments, but havent gotten into the major ones. LOL i bet you could make some money at soho add ons with it too!

Karen