Add-On Releases - CMS Disabler

Reason why I wrote this mod

When vB4 gold comes out, I'd like to switch to it, get my forums working first and foremost. While that work is going on, I have content authors that need to create content, but I don't want this done on a live site where my users can see them working. I also need to skin the CMS, etc.

Once things are skinned, content is written, all of that. I want to simply "turn it on" and everything is live and ready to go.

What this mod does

• Allows you to set usergroups that can access your CMS.
• If a user is not of this usergroup, they are forwarded to the forums.php page.
• It will not display the "Home" button on the tabnav if the user is not in the allowed usergroups list as well.

Notes

Thanks


BirdOPrey5, for updating the mod to work with vb 4.2 as well as fixing some other issues. I'm no longer supporting the mod and the code is reusable and I've updated the download to reflect his code/changes.

To Lynne for telling me what I needed to do when I asked the question, but not specifically telling me how to do it (doing it for me). Learning is fun, sometimes.


Installation:

Install the XML as you would any other vB mod.

[sebaldus]

Edited of me, because I can't get the the mod works as I thought it would?

Still can still access CMS, without double click.

So I must had misunderstand it totally.
Sebaldus

[Trek]

Originally Posted by sebaldus

Edited of me, because I can't get the the mod works as I thought it would?

Still can still access CMS, without double click.

So I must had misunderstand it totally.
Sebaldus

Sebaldus, how are you attempting to access the CMS page?

By default I've set the mod to allow admins (usergroup 6), so unless you change that, you'll be able to get in by default.

[buontaiviem]

Default setting of CMS had a permision setting to do that. Didn't need this mod!

[sebaldus]

Originally Posted by Trek

Sebaldus, how are you attempting to access the CMS page?

By default I've set the mod to allow admins (usergroup 6), so unless you change that, you'll be able to get in by default.

Hi
I use Admin who are user group 6 as default.

So if U are Admin, you don't have to double click for getting access?

Maybe I shall send U a PM little later and let you get access to my forum so U can see if there maybe are other mod who make problems with this?

I have fellow your instruction total and are driving a Norwegian support forums for install, support, design and such things.

This are the first mod as I have had problems with or really don't understand.

So it's enough me who not understand the meaning of this mod..

Have a really wonderful Christmas my forums friend.

All the best from Sebaldus.:up:

[Merjawy]

As I said before, I haven't looked around 4.0 much so I didn't know if you could or not

I did check the permission and yes you can use permissions to close CMS indeed

[Vaupell]

Originally Posted by sebaldus

Yes you can do that in the Config.php script.

Maybe a great mod, but when you are upgrade to Gold you shall remember to disable the Config.php script using: define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

And then you are sure that all mods are disabled when upgrade.

Thanks.
Sebaldus.

Disable hooks does not disable this, cause by editing the .php files.
So your hardcodeing it.

Trek, in mod settings remove the "template edit" templates are editied through admincp,
cant remember if there is a file edit selection

but if your upgrading, you are "overwriting" this mod, so if you want to use it
after a upgrade, remember to change the require again..

[SillyAlien]

If they haven't sorted something like this out natively by the time Gold comes out, I'm sold on this mod. Thanks!

To a couple of the previous posters... yes you can "close" the CMS to groups, in the sense that they can't read articles, they'll just see a "No content" notice. What this mod does is prevent anyone unauthorised from accessing the CMS page at all. This gives you all the time you need to work on it behind curtains, modifying content, layout, themes, whatever.

[TalkVirginia]

Trek, Thank you for taking the time to make this addon. Works great!

*installed*

[merk_aus]

I have voted one star because you can do this in the ACP - disable the entire plugin or using permissions make it only that your staff/contributors can see it for everyone else it doesn't show.

A nice mod but it's already part of out of the box vb publishing suite.

[radmoose]

If it is in the ADMIN CP, can someone specifically say what needs to be done?

When I disable all the sections for everyone but Admin, when someone who is not logged in shows up, they see "There is no content in this section" on the "Front Page" instead of not seeing the CMS at all.

I want everyone except admins and moderators to go directly to forums and not see the CMS at all.

It sounds like this mod does this while the Admin CP doesn't (unless I am missing something.)