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I needed to password protect a "page" in CMSms, and this was a simple method for me.


- Download a password-protect script from this site
http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/password-protect-advanced.php

- Load the password protect file to a place on your hosting server
- Follow their instructions to generate the correct line of code to include (add the ?help to the URL)
- *Note you can write your own  php include tag, you just have to know the full path on your server to the script

Sample code: - Create a user-defined tag in CMSms with this new line of code (and leave out the ), name it password_protect
- add your user-defined tag to the page you want to protect, under the Options tag where smarty tags go
- turn off caching on your password-protected page


That was it for me. You can go in to the password-protect.php file and style it a bit if you like, and create your own user names/password combinations.

Maybe someone else will find this helpful. That same URL above has links to a forum for specific help with the script.

Isn't it easier to install FEU and Custom Content?

I can't figure out FEU or customcontent at all. There's hardly any instructions and I'm not a programmer. This is much better for me.

@carasmo:

Have a look at these really helpful Visual Tutorials (particularly #4 & #5) they're pretty easy to understand, at least I thought so when I knew very little about FEU, I think I used to password protect my pages in a similar way as suggested by the original poster, but the benefits of FEU/Custom Content are really worth it.

carasmo wrote: I can't figure out FEU or customcontent at all. There's hardly any instructions and I'm not a programmer. This is much better for me.

IMHO, it is as easy or easier to use FEU/CC than to go to the trouble you went to to find a 3rd-party script and integrate it into your CMSMS installation.  No need to be a programmer, just be able to read and follow simple instructions.  (No offense intended, but it really is just that easy.)  And if you have questions, just ask!

Thanks! The video really helped, I'm reading the pdf now.