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[Openinteract-help] Application Question.

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

Hello, list!

First off, thanks to Andreas and Teemu for the replies. They gave me a
good brain-kick. I'm still a bit overwhelmed with the volume of stuff
there is to OI, but I'll figure it out eventually.

Yesterday, I started playing with the administration site for the
project I'm working on and immediately ran into something I can't quite
figure out. The design specs have my project broken into two distinct
pieces: 1) the general user's site, where they can fiddle with the
different settings of their account and other actions; and 2) the
administration site, where my company can go in and fiddle with the
users. :-) The default site has these actions combined into one site.
The main reason for this is financial; we're going to have most of the
credit card chargeback processing and the like on an internal
web-server, firewalled off from the rest of the world.

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.

Any hints?

Thanks!

/tma

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

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

Re: [Openinteract-help] Application Question.

[Teemu A. <te...@io...>]

> 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.

Check this out for documentation about OI object:
http://search.cpan.org/~cwinters/OpenInteract-1.60/OpenInteract/Template/Plugin.pm

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Teemu Arina

Ionstream Oy / Dicole
Komeetankuja 4 A
02210 Espoo
FINLAND
Tel: +358-(0)50 - 555 7636
http://www.dicole.fi

"Discover, collaborate, learn."

Re: [Openinteract-help] Application Question.

[Teemu A. <te...@io...>]

> The entire admin app should be locked down, requiring the user to be
> logged in before any page to be displayed.
>
> Any hints?

I remember the login box thing was discussed on the list last year for OI1:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2939624&forum_id=3223

-- 
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Teemu Arina

Ionstream Oy / Dicole
Komeetankuja 4 A
02210 Espoo
FINLAND
Tel: +358-(0)50 - 555 7636
http://www.dicole.fi

"Discover, collaborate, learn."