Setting up a 'members' section of the site

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Hi,

Does anyone know if this is possible? What I want is that when site members login they go to a private 'members' part of the site with extra articles. From that site they should then be able to click to go through to submit articles.

I think this could be done either by hijacking the private site in the /ecrire/ directory, or using the admin screen to generate an Authentication .htpasswd file for another directory - any ideas or advice? To complicate things, articles published in the 'members' site should not appear in the latest articles section of the public site...

Any ideas gratefully received!

Thanks,
Paul.

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From: Paul Morris <paul@orange.net>
Date: Fri Aug 01 22:11:30 BST 2003
To: spip-en@rezo.net
Subject: [Spip-en] Setting up a 'members' section of the site

Hi,
I don't know if this can be done within SPIP, but if so I'd like to.
I'd like to create a 'members' section of my website that is password
protected. Some articles on the site will be restricted to registered
members. I'd also like registered members to have access to create
articles.
Sounds simple, but I don't want members to get the site administration
screens when they login, just the members site - maybe with a link
through to the site admin screens so they can submit articles and news.
Should be possible, but I could do with some pointers...
Regards,
Paul.
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Hi Paul,

What I want is that when site members login they go to a
private 'members' part of the site with extra articles.
From that site they should then be able to click to go
through to submit articles.
Does anyone know if this is possible?

Yes, some personalisation is possible with SPIP, but it's a
little bit tricky and you should not consider that as a
100% secured behaviour.

Since the 1.4, SPIP loop language has two 'pseudo-tags':
#LOGIN_PRIVE and #LOGIN_PUBLIC
With some php, the second one allows you to implement an
identification on public pages of SPIP.

It's documented there:
http://www.uzine.net/article1827.html
but only in French, yet.

I think this could be done either by hijacking the
private site in the /ecrire/ directory,

I suggest you to avoid hacking SPIP code: it will take you
out of any future evolution of SPIP (and it is permanntly
growing!)
You should better stay within SPIP customization: the
skeletons. I think they allow to fully set up what you
want.

or using the admin screen to generate an
Authentication .htpasswd file for another directory

If your web server is properly configured, you can use
the .htpasswd to protect any other directory of the files
system, with SPIP access rigts (logins and passwords).
But for your purpose, designing specific SPIP skeletons
should be better.

To complicate things, articles published in the 'members'
site should not appear in the latest articles section of
the public site...

You have to fully design a SPIP skeletons set.
At Orange, in France, you should find some expertise. If
you want, I can get you in touch with some people of my
company working there :wink:

Good luck!

daniel
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Hi,

My name is Gabi and I am searching for a long time for an efficient solution
at my problem:
- I am looking for a template based application which support 2-3 languages
and is design for a newspaper, but not in the Post Nuke manner.

Also is very important to have a mirrored structures in all the languages of
the categories structure.

How do you feel about SPIP and these requirments?

Thank you for your opinions.

gabi

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Hello Gabi,

- I am looking for a template based application which support 2-3 languages
and is design for a newspaper, but not in the Post Nuke manner.

This is absolutely in the scope SPIP.
Several newspapers (for instance: Le monde diplomatique: http://www.mondediplo.com/ - in several languages) and dozens of webzines use spip.
A full graphical customization is possible with its templates (skeletons).

Also is very important to have a mirrored structures in all the languages of
the categories structure.

Well, presently this is not an embedded standard functionnality of SPIP.
The content management inferface is internationalized, and the customisation is versatile enough to build complex sites in several langages, but there is not a native multi-lingual systematic categories' sturcture.

For some more information, I suggest you to read this:

Hope this gives you some elements of answer.
regards,

daniel
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Daniel,

I read the article and I started to test this CMS.

I think the administration interface is to graphic.

I don't see any reason to start to develope an other programming system (for
bold, italic and so on... ) in articles editor.

On the other hand I couldn't figure it out if I can change the language on
the fly without to have multiple instalation or any other strange things.

Actually I thnik that's the most important feature: multilanguage, and
change the language on the fly.

gabi

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I read the article and I started to test this CMS.

Te test the most advanced (1.7 alpha), you can download form the CVS :
http://rezo.net/spip-cvs/ecrire/ecrire.tar.gz?tarball=1&cvsroot=SPIP

I don't see any reason to start to develope an other programming system (for
bold, italic and so on... ) in articles editor.

You can *also* use usual html tags.
The shortcuts are mainly for contributors who don't want to use html.

On the other hand I couldn't figure it out if I can change the language on
the fly without to have multiple instalation or any other strange things.

Well, multi-lingual is quite new within spip (first official support spip 1.6).
However, to build a multi-lingual site, you don't need multiple installations, but customization of your site: different sections could contain different languages and have different templates according to that.

The first steps of embedded multi-lingual management of the public site is very recent (very last weeks).
To see what is being build, I suggest you to open yourself a publisher account int the international documentation site: http://spip.net/

You will see the first attempts to set a language for sections and articles. And how this appears in the site.

regards,

daniel

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