Front End User ability to unpublish, republish, delete their page

[quickjeff]

Hi Guys,

Im at a point in my project where I have front end user registration, login capabilities and posting of page capabilities by registered users. The users can also edit their own page. Its pretty much a clean site that is made to function like Craigs list but look like a personal ad site. I have used ryans method for registration, profile control and login. All is good so far! Now in profile template which I call their account management page, a user sees all their pages they have posted. The user can click the link to their page to front end edit their pages content. I would like to also give them ability to unpublish, republish or delete their page. Any thoughts or ideas? The way I invision it, a script checks to see if the user has access to edit the page, which I have done. Then the user can edit via fedI front end editor module. Now I need to display a button unpublish, a button to republish and a button to delete.

Any guidance is appreciated.

[vxda]

Check this out:
https://processwire.com/talk/topic/1293-how-to-set-unpublished-for-a-page-in-the-api/?p=11538

[quickjeff]

Thanks but not sure if this will help me. I need to give front end user role the ability to un publish, publish or delete their page if needed. Perhaps a check mark or button that allows them submit these changes.

[kongondo]

Jeff, the answer to your questions entails several parts; vxda has pointed you to one part. What's he's shown you is the API to unpublish/publish a page. You will need that when it comes to processing the programmatic request of a user to delete,

Here's the parts as I see them

1. Is the user logged in?

2. Do they have the right to edit this page?

3. User clicks button to delete or publish/unpublish - this sends a $post request

4. Check and sanitize the $post request

5. Does this user have permission to delete this page? - this is an added safety net

6. If yes, delete the page and let user know [success or failure]

Btw, remember delete and trash are different things in PW....

Gotta run...meanwhile, Google the forums about these suggested topics (I could have missed something...)

[quickjeff]

@kongondo

Hmmm okay I will have a look

[quickjeff]

Okay, with some help from other members here, I currently am displaying a link to the page the user is assigned to edit inside of their account manager page. 

<?php
     foreach($user->editable_pages as $aPage){
    
  echo "<li><a href='$aPage->url'>$aPage->title</a></li>";
  
}
?>

I would like to also add a button for them to be able to delete the page. 

Any help on this?  I have searched the API and not sure what would work best.