Noob question about users

[Marty Walker]

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a site that gives users access to parts of the site. It goes something like this:

- Your Pages

-- Seminar 1

--- seminar page 1

--- seminar page 2

-- Seminar 2

--- seminar page 1

--- seminar page 2

 

... and so on

 

On the Seminar 1 & Seminar 2 pages I have a field called 'Allowed users' which is a Page field that looks at the admin/access/users page. I have it setup to display all the users as checkboxes.

 

I thought that I might have built an easy way for the admin to add selected users to each Seminar but I'm having trouble.

 

What I'm trying to do is match the logged in user with the checked username on the Seminar 1 & Seminar 2 pages and a) only show that user the seminars they have access to and b) all the pages below that belong to that seminar.

 

They're going to have quite a few seminars. Getting them to setup a Role for each seminar and then adding that role to each user would be quite tedious.

 

I haven't done much with user management at all in PW. Any ideas on how I might approach this? Is there a better way?

 

Regards

Marty

[kongondo]

The following could be of use? Scroll down for ideas about checking user...

http://processwire.com/talk/topic/4116-best-way-to-structure-a-classifieds-site/

[Wanze]

Hi Marty,

What trouble do you have?

Let's say Seminar1 and Seminar2 both have the same template. If a user visits those sites, you should be able to do a check like this:

// Check if the current user can access this seminar page
if ($page->allowedUsers->has($user)) {
  // Good! List the Seminar children
} else {
  throw new Wire404Exception();
}

... where allowedUsers is your Page field (checkboxes) for the users. Of course you'd need also to check on the seminar subpages, so that a user can't access them directly:

if ($page->parent->allowedUsers->has($user)) {
  // Good!
} else {
  throw new Wire404Exception();
}

[Marty Walker]

Thanks Wanze, has($user) did the trick.