• Users Can Register For An Account
  
• Users Can Sign In And Logout
  
• Pages Can Be Protected Via A Checkbox On Edit Page Screen
  
• CSS For All Plugin Related Elements Can Be Edited Via Plugin Settings Page In Admin
  
• Protected Page Message Can Be Edited Via WYSIWYG Editor In Plugins Settings Page - (The Protected Message is what shows up if the user is not logged in and is trying to view a protected page)
  
• Features "Email All Users" form to easily send emails to all your site's users. The email form has fields for changing the "from address", "subject line", and ckeditor textarea to edit the message body. The message can contain html/css/js etc..
  
• Expanded User Login Plugin Management via "Manage Users" page accessible through settings page. You can now add, edit, delete, and view all users.
  
• An email is sent to the user upon them registering. It includes their username, password, and a link your website. The "From" Address can be edited from the plugins settings page (However, it can remain the default, noreply@yourdomain.com).
  

• The Below Code Displays The Login Form
  

• The Below Code Displays The Welcome Message & logout Link (Shown When User Is Logged In)
  

• The Below Code Displays The Register Form
  

• It might be useful to add to your description something along the lines of this plug-in being functionally seperate to your other 'Multi-User' plug-in, which is for the back-end (Yes, I took a while to work this out ... did a complete reinstall on the way ....)
  
• Is there a way or is there going to be a way to see / administer who has logged on? (Add & delete users, send out an e-mail, etc.)
  
• When I'm asked to give an e-mail address when I'm registering at a site, then I automatically think that I'm about to recieve a registration mail. Whilst I can add a text to the registration box to state that this isn't the case here, I wonder if you're planning this as an option for later?
  
• Passwords in the login field are legible. Will you be changing this?
  
• Are you planning to link up this plug-in with the 'Multi-User' plug-in (common data folder or similar)?
  

Alan-A Wrote:Hello Mikeh,

I've got this plug-in running and would like to add a few points / questions:

• It might be useful to add to your description something along the lines of this plug-in being functionally seperate to your other 'Multi-User' plug-in, which is for the back-end (Yes, I took a while to work this out ... did a complete reinstall on the way ....)
  
• Is there a way or is there going to be a way to see / administer who has logged on? (Add & delete users, send out an e-mail, etc.)
  
• When I'm asked to give an e-mail address when I'm registering at a site, then I automatically think that I'm about to recieve a registration mail. Whilst I can add a text to the registration box to state that this isn't the case here, I wonder if you're planning this as an option for later?
  
• Passwords in the login field are legible. Will you be changing this?
  
• Are you planning to link up this plug-in with the 'Multi-User' plug-in (common data folder or similar)?
  

I find this approach with a semi-secure login interesting and will be keeping an eye on it for the future.

I was hoping that it would have been possible for me to use this plug-in to restrict pages to individual users (eg a download page only for user x and a gallery only for user y) but this doesn't appear to be possible at the moment.

Keep up the good work,

Alan

• Allow for either the CSS (of the login box) to be editable or just have the basic CSS as an example file for people to integrate to their own layouts. This just makes things easier to stylise from a newbie's standpoint.
  
• Allow for components to also be protected, so certain widgets in a sidebar only show once the user is logged in?
  
• (Not important at all) Include a 'members.css' file that enables certain elements of the layout itself to be different for when logged in (eg the background can be different, or the banner image changes if the banner image is the background for a css element)
  
• A 'forgot password' section where members can either reset their password or send a message to the admin about their login?
  
• Or an easier alternative may be a Secret Question/Answer field on registering in the event of forgetting the password.
  
• (Probably difficult) Password strength indicator as they register? Or better still, a CAPTCHA system to prevent bots registering?
  
• Perhaps consider an optional integration with other social network logins, such as Facebook and GooglePlus?
  

Angryboy Wrote:Allow for components to also be protected, so certain widgets in a sidebar only show once the user is logged in?

Angryboy Wrote:Awesome work, Mikeh. Things are working pretty darned well, and this is a great way to allow for Members-Only content on the site, which I've thought to be very desirable.

Taking on Alan-A's comments will definitely make this more safe to use, so prioritise yourself with his suggestions. I have some of my own if you either have the time or also think of them as relevant:

• Allow for either the CSS (of the login box) to be editable or just have the basic CSS as an example file for people to integrate to their own layouts. This just makes things easier to stylise from a newbie's standpoint.
  
• Allow for components to also be protected, so certain widgets in a sidebar only show once the user is logged in?
  
• (Not important at all) Include a 'members.css' file that enables certain elements of the layout itself to be different for when logged in (eg the background can be different, or the banner image changes if the banner image is the background for a css element)
  
• A 'forgot password' section where members can either reset their password or send a message to the admin about their login?
  
• Or an easier alternative may be a Secret Question/Answer field on registering in the event of forgetting the password.
  
• (Probably difficult) Password strength indicator as they register? Or better still, a CAPTCHA system to prevent bots registering?
  
• Perhaps consider an optional integration with other social network logins, such as Facebook and GooglePlus?
  

Good luck with this plugin's progress. This is one I'm really looking forward to the growth of.

usmandgreat Wrote:Mikeh the plugin is great but this XML version is not working for me. In admin settings page i click on the add users button and it doesn't show me anything. Also when i try to register or login from the front end i just get a page doesn't exist from my hosting provider. I am using several plugins mostly I18N and a few others. The previous version which used the mysql database was working fine before I installed this.

usmandgreat Wrote:Mikeh the plugin is great but this XML version is not working for me. In admin settings page i click on the add users button and it doesn't show me anything. Also when i try to register or login from the front end i just get a page doesn't exist from my hosting provider. I am using several plugins mostly I18N and a few others. The previous version which used the mysql database was working fine before I installed this.

• Added "Email All Users" form to easily send emails to all your site's users. The email form has fields for changing the "from address", "subject line", and ckeditor textarea to edit the message body. The message can contain html/css/js etc..
  

usmandgreat Wrote:Hello Mikeh

I managed to solve the problem by changing your code a little. The problem is here

Code:

<form method="post" action="'.$site_url.'/'.$the_page_slug.'" name="loginform" id="loginform">

When the submit button is clicked it posts the data to SLUG i.e www.yoursite.com/index
where index is the slug of the actual page index.php. When i was testing it locally on my computer it was working fine but when I uploaded it and tried to login it showed me 404 page doesnt exist because the url above is incomplete. So I changed that code to this

Code:

<form method="post" action="index.php?id='.$the_page_slug.'" name="loginform" id="loginform">

Now it works perfectly, when you submit it it goes to the actual page i.e www.yoursite.com/index.php?id=index

This url works both locally and on my hosting server.

I aslo changed the same code for register button and logout button.

Angryboy Wrote:

Code:

Notice: Undefined index: id in /home/u099886477/public_html/plugins/user_login.php on line 568

Warning: file_get_contents(/home/u099886477/public_html/data/pages/.xml) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/u099886477/public_html/admin/inc/basic.php on line 218

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/u099886477/public_html/plugins/user_login.php on line 573

This is the error that appears when I create pages (when you open the 'Page Properties' screen). I can still create pages no problem afterwards, and the error disappears when I edit them, but I just wonder what causes it.

Only other problem I see is that as I made edits to the CSS of the Login Container box, it seemed to push the information out of the below text-fields. The way I see it, you don't really need to have the CSS editable from within the settings: just provide a basic framework to work from in the root folder of the plugin. This means that users who want to style it up simply copy-paste the framework into their templates and have everything under control from within there.

Otherwise, everything else is working very nicely, and the progress is rapid so keep this up Mikeh Haven't been excited about a plugin's development in a while, so this is great to see

chainsaw81 Wrote:@mikeh

thanks again for your wundeful extension.

i followed your instructions, but one thing won't work:
- i want to add manually users to the webseite
--> settings -> manage users -> add new user

nothing happens.
only the url changes from

Code:

/admin/load.php?id=user_login&manage=yes

to

Code:

/admin/load.php?id=user_login&manage=yes#

the html says:

Code:

<a id="add-user" href="#">Add New User</a>

do you have any ideas? something missing? javascript etc?

thanks and keep up your great coding!
chainsaw81

Quote:In admin settings page i click on the add users button and it doesn't show me anything.

mikeh Wrote:What browser were you using? For some reason IE hates the js i wrote for this plugin and the multi-user plugin (still trying to figure it out).

Vulch Wrote:

mikeh Wrote:What browser were you using? For some reason IE hates the js i wrote for this plugin and the multi-user plugin (still trying to figure it out).

I've hit similar problems in the past which turned out to be IE hating a trailing comma on the end of a parameter array every time. Basically...

Code:

{
    parameter1: 'value',
    parameter2: 99
}

...will work, and...

Code:

{
    parameter1: 'value',
    parameter2: 99,
}

...will fail under IE but gets accepted by Firefox, Chrome and Safari.