Adding User Specific Pages using a very simple method

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ironblaze94

Adding User Specific Pages using a very simple method

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Hi Guys, i recently received a project requiring user specific pages that needed to be added and maintained by people who had hardly used a computer.

What this company needs is to be able to set up customers with log in details (this is done manually through the backend) so each customer has their own page that tells them how far into the project the company is, for your information this is a blow moulding company that use 9 steps to create the products. They want to be able to update each customer page with what stage they are on, pictures etc easily.

So i thought up this little trick, excuse me if it has been done before but i couldn't find anything through the search.

I modified the LogOut template of the FEU module to include this command after the Welcome message:


{$startform}
  {$prompt_loggedin} {$username}

  {global_content name='{$username}'}

  {$link_logout}
{$endform}



Then i added a Global Content Block using the same username for whoever will be viewing the data but the only fault is i have to add a '{' at the beginning of the title

Example:

I add a User with the username 'duncan'

I add a Global Content Block called '{duncan' (remembering to add the '{' at the beginning of the title)

Then login to see the user specific data!

This also does not use the Custom Content module

Thanks  :)
Last edited by ironblaze94 on Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:33 am, edited 1 time in total.
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