[Yanel-dev] Login/Register

[Michael Wechner]

Mehmet Birgi wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Michael Wechner 
> <michael.wechner at wyona.com <mailto:michael.wechner at wyona.com>> wrote:
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>     Mehmet Birgi wrote:
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>         Hi
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>         On my current project, we need a way to refer anonymous users
>         to a page where they can login or - in case they are not
>         registered yet - register.
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>     you mean there is a login/register link on the page somewhere?
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> Yes. This appears for example when a user is not logged in and 
> requests a page where he/she can only see limited content while 
> anonymous. In this case, there is a part in the line of:
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> "This content

which content? (I assume the user can see part of the page, but does not 
know which content he/she does not see, right?)
> is only available to registered users. Please _login_ or _register_."
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> These links should point to the login/registration pages respectively, 
> and after that, take the user back to the previously unavailable page, 
> which, if the user is logged in now, would show the content.

I guess we could enhance the login screen by using the referer
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>         Of course, after doing either one of these, they should be
>         returned to the original page they were visiting (the redirect
>         resource seems to be doing this, but only almost, as I
>         couldn't find a way to make the redirect dynamic instead of
>         defining it in the res-config).
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>         Afaics, there is no way to do either of these at the moment,
>         but maybe I'm overlooking something? If there is no ready
>         solution, how would you embark on implementing these features?
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>     one way would be to use the referer, but this only works if the
>     person first accessed your site, but not via email link or something
>     similar.
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> maybe we could implement a check to see if the referer is part of our 
> site, and if not, redirect to the start page?

I guess that would make sense
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>     Or what about an overlay (at least for the login)?
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> how would that work?
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> also, afaics, there is no specific URL to call the login page, which 
> would probably be needed?

create one.

Cheers

Michi
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> cheers,
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> memo
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>  
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>     But yes, none of the above exists out-of-the-box yet, but the
>     pieces are all there and "just" need to be assembled.
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>     Cheers
>
>     Michi
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>
>         Thanks,
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>         Memo
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>         Mehmet Birgi
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