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.

[sportsfroma2]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Why not just disable the plugin for it?

because that just killls the whole thing... doesn't allow you to work on the CMS while the plug-in is disabled.


pretty much this add-on allows us to put the CMS in a type of "maintenance mode" for a specific usergroup (ex: admins).. So Admins can see it to work on it, while everyone else just bypasses it automatically/wouldn't know the CMS exists

(useful for those of us upgrading to the suite from the forums only, for example)

[Boofo]

Good point. I hadn't thought of that.

Trek, why not include the file and template edits in a readme file in the hack? That way they have it for future reference.

[UpFriends]

Great mod. Very helpful.

[Lqd]

Why not disable the CMS product? Isn't that a lot easier?

[cagbaazee]

just include forum.php in the site tab url of content management settings. its working perfect.

[Trek]

Originally Posted by Lqd

Why not disable the CMS product? Isn't that a lot easier?

Originally Posted by cagbaazee

just include forum.php in the site tab url of content management settings. its working perfect.

The reason why is that the mod still made the CMS available to admins or whoever so that they could get content added to the system, have it configured, look and feel, etc... all behind the scenes. If there are other better ways to do this now, go for it. The mod was written when vB was released and is no longer supported anyway.

[barakuda]

installed...thanks

[gabs]

Nice!
Thank you, just what I was looking for

cheers,
.g

[togotutor]

Installed, but need to test it.

[Old-Git]

Has the new Navigator Manager broken this addon?

EDIT: having just had a look, it would appear that the template ''vbcms_navbar_link', which is part of the dit process for this addon, has been deleted in the 4.2.0 upgrade.