FrontEndUsers (FEU) and CustomContent (CC) are modules that allow for user login/authentication and checking user status on the frontend of a website. FEU manages users, groups, and user properties while CC provides smarty access to the login status of visitors. These modules have an easy installation process and setting up users involves creating properties, groups, and user accounts. Templates can utilize the $ccuser smarty object to control content based on login status and retrieve user property values. The modules also have APIs to extend their functionality and be integrated into other modules.

2. Installation

3. Setting up properties, groups and users

4. Simple content work

5. Slightly more advanced template work

6. Extensions, interoperability and API

8. Allows users to log in and out

11. Dependencies: FEU ← CC

13. Ease ↔ flexibility

14. At least one property needed, email there by default

15. Properties can be user-editable, read-only etc.

16. Users can be members of several groups, FEU handles props nicely

18. Using the $ccuser smarty object

19. Cache-control on CC pages

20. WYSIWYG's kills stuff {cms_module module='CustomContent'} {if !$ccuser->loggedin()} You are not logged in.<br/> Please do so now. {FrontEndUsers form='login'} {else} You have entered the secret area. You are know as {$ccuser->property('name')} {/if} Code Examples

22. Do hidden pages for login and logout {cms_module module='CustomContent'} {if !$ccuser->loggedin()} <a href='index.php?page=login'> Login </a> {else} You are logged in as {$ccuser->property('name')} <a href='index.php?page=logout'> Logout </a> {/if} Code Examples {FrontEndUsers form='login'} {FrontEndUsers form='login' returnto='secret'} {FrontEndUsers form='logout' returnto='home'}

24. Checking the extra field in the template

25. Cache control -> off {if $content_obj->mProperties-> mPropertyValues.extra1=='topsecret'} {cms_module module='CustomContent'} {if !$ccuser->loggedin()} You have reached a topsecret page and you are not logged in {else} {content} {/if} {else} {content} {/if} Code Examples

27. Accessing the extra field in menu template {cms_module module=CustomContent} {foreach from=$nodelist item=node} {if $node->extra1!='topsecret' || $ccuser->loggedin()} <a href=&quot;{$node->url}&quot;> {$node->menutext} </a> {/if} {/foreach} Code Examples {menu loadprops='1'}

28. FrontEndUsers and CustomContent Other interesting $ccuser-functions Testing for groupmembership {cms_module module=CustomContent} {if $ccuser->loggedin() && $ccuser->memberof('geekmoot')} Wow, you are the proud member of The GeekMoot group {/if} Code Examples Testing for IP-addr {cms_module module=CustomContent} {if $ccuser->loggedin() && $ccuser ->ipmatches('192.168.0.0/24')} You are even a local user {/if} More functions on the CC help page

30. FEUserEdit – a bit easier editing for simple setups

31. FrontEndUser mailer – mail FEU groups

32. Using FEU:

33. ForumMS, eCommerce-suites, Download Manager and a lot of others

35. Extensive API

36. API not documented

37. Check API section of FrontEndUsers.module.php Function CheckLogin() { $FEU=$this->GetModuleInstance( 'FrontEndUsers'); if ($FEU) { return $FEU->LoggedIn(); } //FrontEndUsers not installed return false; } Code Examples