Feature requests

bobtheman · September 2010

some features i would love to see in this app

ability to edit pages from admin dashboard
wysiwyg editor
private pages, password protected
media upload ability
comment system, could use the discussion application for this

ddumont · November 2010

I'd love to be able to protect certain pages by member role... Is there something that I can add to my page to get vanilla to do this?

ddumont · November 2010

I'd love to be able to protect certain pages by member role... Is there something that I can add to my page to get vanilla to do this?

I'd love for a way to do this more automatically, but here's how I ended up doing it.
in my custom page:

$perm_manage = Gdn::Session()->CheckPermission('Plugins.CustomPageFood.Manage');
$perm_view = Gdn::Session()->CheckPermission('Plugins.CustomPageFood.View');
if (!($perm_view || $perm_manage)) {
	exit();
}

And in the default.php for the CustomPages plugin I added this:

$PluginInfo['CustomPages'] = array(
'Name' => 'Custom Pages',
'Description' => 'A plugin that lets you add custom pages...',
'Version' => '1',
// I added the line below:
'RegisterPermissions' => array(
	'Plugins.CustomPageFood.Manage',
	'Plugins.CustomPageFood.View'
),

yusf · July 2011

A revision feature would be swaggedy!

hyphy · July 2011

Revision feature for what exactly, @yusf?

yusf · August 2011

@hyphy
A functionality for version rollback and such. A wiki more or less.

Pamela · June 2012

ddumont said:
I'd love to be able to protect certain pages by member role... Is there something that I can add to my page to get vanilla to do this?

I'd love for a way to do this more automatically, but here's how I ended up doing it.
in my custom page:

$perm_manage = Gdn::Session()->CheckPermission('Plugins.CustomPageFood.Manage');
$perm_view = Gdn::Session()->CheckPermission('Plugins.CustomPageFood.View');
if (!($perm_view || $perm_manage)) {
exit();
}

And in the default.php for the CustomPages plugin I added this:
$PluginInfo['CustomPages'] = array(
'Name' => 'Custom Pages',
'Description' => 'A plugin that lets you add custom pages...',
'Version' => '1',
// I added the line below:
'RegisterPermissions' => array(
'Plugins.CustomPageFood.Manage',
'Plugins.CustomPageFood.View'
),

Many thanks to share this tip but is it the best way? for do it now... with v2.0.18.4

peregrine · June 2012

the above should work in 2.18.0.4. Can't answer if it is the best way.

Pamela · June 2012

peregrine said:
the above should work in 2.18.0.4. Can't answer if it is the best way.

Ok, thank you so, I will try...

Sheila · July 2012

Hi!

Could I get more detailed (n00b proof) info, how to add code that dumond posted?

peregrine · July 2012

what don't you understand?

Sheila · July 2012

The exact lines where to add the code, and if I should wrap it within php -function and if, then how to do it. Sorry, I'm really bad with these. Willing to learn but..

peregrine · July 2012

I haven't tested the custom pages aspect - but it does put permissions in your dashboard.

he's saying to the CustomPages plugin - default.php

$PluginInfo['CustomPages'] = array(
   'Name' => 'Custom Pages',
   'Description' => 'A plugin that lets you add custom pages. You need to add them to the "pages" folder of this plugin.',
   'Version' => '1',
   'Author' => "Mark O'Sullivan",
   'AuthorEmail' => 'mark@vanillaforums.com',
   'AuthorUrl' => 'http://vanillaforums.com'
);

to this... (this should give you manage and view options for CustomPageFood in the dashboard permissions.

$PluginInfo['CustomPages'] = array(
   'Name' => 'Custom Pages',
   'Description' => 'A plugin that lets you add custom pages. You need to add them to the "pages" folder of this plugin.',
   'Version' => '1',
  'RegisterPermissions' =>array('Plugins.CustomPageFood.Manage','Plugins.CustomPageFood.View'),
   'Author' => "Mark O'Sullivan",
   'AuthorEmail' => 'mark@vanillaforums.com',
   'AuthorUrl' => 'http://vanillaforums.com'
);

and add this to your custom page food.

    $perm_manage = Gdn::Session()->CheckPermission('Plugins.CustomPageFood.Manage');
    $perm_view = Gdn::Session()->CheckPermission('Plugins.CustomPageFood.View');
    if (!($perm_view || $perm_manage)) {
    exit();
    }

obviously if food is not your custom page change it accordingly.

Sheila · July 2012

Okay, thanks. Seems like I did it right then in a first place. But no new options in the admin and code is visible on the public side.

peregrine · July 2012

did you wrap it in php tags?

<?php 
 $perm_manage=Gdn::Session()->CheckPermission('Plugins.CustomPageFood.Manage');

 $perm_view = Gdn::Session()->CheckPermission('Plugins.CustomPageFood.View');

  if (!($perm_view || $perm_manage)) { exit();  }
    ?>

peregrine · July 2012

the options for permissions will show up in each role towards the bottom just before the default category permissions.

Sheila · July 2012

peregrine said:
did you wrap it in php tags?

Of course not!

To be honest, I kept just staring the part <?php if (!defined('APPLICATION')) exit(); ?> and wondering, were exactly is the place to add this other function.

At least something happened since there's a WSOD now. No new permissions in the admin thou.

This is what I used:
<?php $perm_manage=Gdn::Session()->CheckPermission('Plugins.CustomPageFaqs.Manage'); $perm_view = Gdn::Session()->CheckPermission('Plugins.CustomPageFaqs.View'); ?>

peregrine · July 2012

This is what I used:
<?php $perm_manage=Gdn::Session()->CheckPermission('Plugins.CustomPageFaqs.Manage'); $perm_view = Gdn::Session()->CheckPermission('Plugins.CustomPageFaqs.View'); ?>

What exactly is you goal. to only have people logged in, able to view it?

in that case you could just check for (and forget about the mods to plugin).

$Session = Gdn::Session();
        // this tests to see is user is logged in
        if ($Session->IsValid()) {
              // do the faq stuff

         } else {

            // display you don't have permission to view.

}

Sheila · July 2012

peregrine said:
What exactly is you goal. to only have people logged in, able to view it?

Yes, just to set that page visible for logged in members only. Most ideal would be, if menu link also is hidden. I think it's often just more user friendly to hide things completely than give those 'You don't have permission to...' -messages.

peregrine · July 2012

How did you add it to the menu in the first place?

Sheila · July 2012

It is included in Air theme default.master.php,
$this->Menu->AddLink('FAQS', T('FAQS'), '/faqs');

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