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[Mark Stanton]

OK, so this (www.wiltshirefarmersmarkets.org.uk) site is starting to get complex!

I'm using the "authenticate_visitor" snippet to let (controlled) people log in. They don't get access to the manager, there are various extra pages available to three groups of users.

But I want to know who logged in and when.
I notice that the Eto front end doesn't use this (authenticate visitor) method, predated it I expect?
But I can see how to add that logging. But I have to do it in the Etomite "userlogin" method, which is starting to fiddle in areas that p'raps I oughtn't.

It also opens up a wider issue, I want to make some site admin pages, stuff like who which "managers" logged in, when &tc. I don't want to try to put these in the manager, of course. But there doesn't appear to be an "admin" group that I can make them dependant on...

It looks to me like I'm starting to fiddle with guts that could do with a bit of being sensible about.
Any thoughts (Ralph)?

Regards
Mark

[Ralph]

Although visitor logging wasn't written into the authentication code I'm sure it could be implemented... Your "admin" sections can be handled using Roles and Document Groups...

[Mark Stanton]

Ralph, on Mar 13 2007, 03:25 PM, said:

Although visitor logging wasn't written into the authentication code I'm sure it could be implemented...

Well, the code is there in login.processor.php, I just didn't want to put it in to etomite::userlogin without talking to you about it, it seemed rude.

Ralph, on Mar 13 2007, 03:25 PM, said:

Your "admin" sections can be handled using Roles and Document Groups...

Well, my other sections are handled this way (I'm feeding the (prefix)_manager_users & (prefix)_user_roles tables from the application tables, held in the same Eto database), but my point is there doesn't appear to be a separate "administrator" group. Hmmm, not so different I s'pose.. Yeah, no problem.

[Ralph]

If you want to attempt pulling code from one of the manager modules and adapting it either into a snippet or experimenting with the parser functions, go right ahead... Just don't post any modified code base code without letting me take a look at it first... If the modifications are deemed advantageous to the masses then it might just make it into the official code base for future releases... Give me a shout if you have questions...