Log in from front (discussions) page?

Thomas Heath

Hey! Anyone know how to put a log-in box on the front page? I.e. showed on the discussions page when people are not logged in. After log-in, the discussions page would get refreshed and the users would never have to see a superflous separate log-in page. Can I just include the boxes from the log-in page somewhere, somehow?

Roguefoxx

The Add Comments addon allows you to log in from the discussion display.

http://lussumo.com/addons/?PostBackAction=AddOn&AddOnID=1

Thomas Heath

Thanks - but that's not really what I'm looking for. I don't necessarily want to add a comment, I just want to log in from the discussions page. I simply want to put a log-in box under the Guest Welcome message (which uses an addon).

Minisweeper

Bergamot did it, ask him.

Thomas Heath

Thanks Mini! Will do.

Dinoboff

Bergamot forum

WallPhone

*Cracks knuckles*

http://wallphone.com/GuestSignIn.zip

Thomas Heath

Whoa that was QUICK! It all works fine, but I get an error message: Notice: Undefined index: Username in /hsphere/local/home/tools/tools.web.surftown.se/storaa/forum/extensions/Guest Sign-In/default.php on line 20

Thomas Heath

Also, would it be possible to make pressing the logout button send you back to the discussions page as well? Perhaps this should be accomplished some other way (i.e. not though the add-on)

Roguefoxx

Thanks alot WallPhone. I installed without any issues.

Thomas Heath

My eventual plan is to remove the standard log-in/log-out alltogether. However, I think doing that means the user won't have a log-out link any more! A neat way would be: If not logged in: show log in boxes in panel. Clicking sends you to the same page you logged in from. If logged in: show "you're logged in as..." + log-out link in the panel. Clicking sends you to the same page you to the discussions page. This way, the standard log-in/out pages could vanish completely. (although the existing way is a very good already!)

WallPhone

That error message is odd... its trying to get the user name definition direct from the dictionary, like it does for everything else... double checked my spelling and case and it appears OK.

I did fix one bug, however--the last line AddStylesheet() has the wrong path. Not a biggie, but it looks better with a proper stylesheet.

I also put it in a folder so its named as intended.

Thomas Heath

If its any help: the error shows on every page, see it in my forum at: http://www.tools.web.surftown.se/storaa/forum/

Thomas Heath

OK some troubleshooting shows it has to do with the language file: the problem doesn't show up when I set the language to English. Must eat now, will look into this later!

Thomas Heath

Problem solved: "Username" was missing from the Swedish language file: it all works now that I've added it.

Thomas Heath

@WallPhone: The add-on links to the CSS from the GuestWelcome add-on. But this is a very minor issue indeed.

WallPhone

Now you know how I got it done so quickly: I 'borrowed' 90 percent of my code from that add-on. Should be fixed now.

Roguefoxx

It would be nice if the Guest Welcome Message extension could be combined with the extension you just added WallPhone.

WallPhone

I could copy a bit more text from that extension into it... but then it would require some hand-editing for any language change.

Heh, I noticed the Please sign in text is not pulled from the dictionary... It could be.

Well, lets have a vote:

1. Always pull from the default dictionary--compatible with most any language pack.
2. Add additional text similar to the guest welcome extension--requres additional translation work for other languages.

I will program it either way (or both?) depending on the votes.

Thomas Heath

I vote for customised! Tweaking is nice!

imathis

Customised would be my preference.