Re: [Openinteract-dev] Startup

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 03:34, Die...@Be... wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> we try to show user or group specific startup pages after login.
> Now, after login, the first page is the ../html/index.html. 
> Could you please tell us how to call user- or group-dependent startup-pages?

You could do this one of two ways:

1) Make the normal startup page (/index.html) display certain
information based on group membership using normal template directives:

html/index.html:
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[%- is_manager = 0; is_marketing = 0; ... -%]

[% FOREACH group = OI.login_group %]
  [% SET is_manager = 1  IF group.id == 4;
     SET is_marketing = 1 IF group_id == 5;
     ... %]
[% END %]

[% IF is_manager %]
Hi manager! Here is your information ...
[% ELSIF is_marketing %]
Hi marketer! Here is your information ...
[% ELSE %]
Hi common user! Here is your information ...
[% END %]

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Instead of embedding the information in the page, you could also have
the content be templates and do something like:

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[% IF is_manager %]
[% INCLUDE startup_manager %]
[% ELSIF is_marketing %]
[% INCLUDE startup_marketing %]
[% ELSE %]
...
[% END %]
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And create $WEBSITE_DIR/template/startup_manager and
$WEBSITE_DIR/template/startup_marketing with the information you want.

2) Create a component to do this for you:

In the startup page, just have:

html/index.html:
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[% OI.comp( 'lookup_starting_page' ) %]
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And then create a component in one of your packages:

conf/action.perl:
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$action = {
  lookup_starting_page => {
      class  => 'OpenInteract::StartingPage',
      method => 'handler',
  },
};
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mypkg/OpenInteract/StartingPage.pm:
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package OpenInteract::StartingPage;

sub handler {
    my ( $class ) = @_;
    my $R = OpenInteract::Request->instance;
    unless ( $R->{auth}{logged_in} ) {
         return 'Sorry, not logged in.';
    }
    foreach my $group ( @{ $R->{auth}{group} } ) {
        return $class->get_page( 'marketing' )  if ( $group->id == 4 );
        return $class->get_page( 'management' ) if ( $group->id == 5 );
    }
    return $class->get_page( 'main' );
}

sub get_page {
    my ( $class, $type ) = @_;
    # ... code to pull the page from the filesystem/database
    # based on the type ...
}
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In theory you could also implement a custom login handler to do this,
but right now there is no support for short-circuiting the process in
this manner to return content directly. I'll get something along these
lines (redirects, at least) implemented for the next version since it's
pretty useful.

Chris

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Chris Winters (ch...@cw...)
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