Re: [Openinteract-help] Application Question.

[Timothy M. A. <ti...@ad...>]

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 11:52, Chris Winters wrote:
> > ...
> > 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:
[SNIP]

Ahh, OK! This is just the brain-kick I needed. Thanks!

I did notice the OI "object" being used in the templates, but I couldn't
find it mentioned in any of the docs. I had started going through all of
the modules created as part of the new website, but I hadn't reached the
Template module yet. Now that I know where the OI template variable gets
plugged in, I can get a better grasp on how the system flows.

I'm sure I'll run into other things as I go along, but this will give me
a great start.

[SNIP]
> Hope this helps!

Absolutely! Thanks!

/tma