Re: [Openinteract-help] Application Question.

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

> ...
> Getting down to work, I tried to remove all of the "boxes" and such from
> the /index.html document and create just a login box. The thing is, I
> can't seem to figure out how to get the user information to display
> anywhere other than in the user info box. I know there's something I'm
> just not grokking here. So, I wanted the template to do something like
> this pseudo-code:
>
> [%- IF user.authenticated -%]
>  ( Display boxes )
>  ( Display default welcome page )
> [%- ELSE -%]
>  ( Display Login Form )
> [%- END -%]
>
> The entire admin app should be locked down, requiring the user to be
> logged in before any page to be displayed.

Check out the template toolkit plugin at:

  OI1: OpenInteract::Template::Plugin
  OI2: OpenInteract2::TT2::Plugin

The plugin allows you to do something like this in your main template
('base_main'), using the plugin through the reserved 'OI' name:

[% IF OI.logged_in %]
  Hello [% OI.login.full_name %], nice to see you!
[% ELSE %]
  Login now!
  <form ...>
  </form>
[% END %]

You also don't have to use the login box for logging. in. For instance, on
my website (http://www.cwinters.com/) I have a separate component called
'my_login_bar', which displays a thin fullscreen bar with your username
and a link to edit your info if you're logged in, or a 'login' link if
you're not. (It also displays a 'Printable' link for everything...)

The template looks like this (apologies for wrapping issues):

--------------------
<table width="100%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="0">
[% IF OI.logged_in -%]
[%- logout_url = OI.make_url( base = '/NoTmpl/Logout/', return =
OI.return.url ) -%]
[%- edit_url   = OI.make_url( base = '/User/show/', user_id = OI.login.id
) -%]
<tr valign="middle" bgcolor="#eeeeee">
  <td align="left" width="50%"><font size="-1">
    You are logged in as <b>[% OI.login.login_name %]</b>
    (<a href="[% edit_url %]">Edit my info</a>)
  </font></td>
  <td align="right" width="40%"><font size="-1">
    <a href="[% logout_url %]">Logout</a>
  </font></td>
  <td align="right" width="10%"><font size="-1">
    <a href="/NoTmpl[% path %]">Printable</a>
  </font></td>
</tr>
[% ELSE -%]
<tr valign="middle" bgcolor="#cccccc">
  <td align="right"><font size="-1">
    <b><a href="/login.html">Login</a></b>
  </font></td>
  <td align="right"><font size="-1">
    <a href="/NoTmpl[% path %]">Printable</a>
  </font></td>
</tr>
[% END -%]
</table>
--------------------

Hope this helps!

Chris