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#1 2013-06-20 08:14:15

lara

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Registered: 2013-06-20

Posts: 1

Password protect certain categories

I have three categories (news,archive,senior-pathways) within my news section and I want all articles password protected except for one category(senior-pathways).

Is this possible or for security reasons, can you not segment password protecting?

I have tried a lot of things but nothing seems to work. The most logical method I can think of is putting an ‘<txp:if_category name=“news,archive”>’ around the ‘<txp:password_protect login=“xxx” pass=“yyy” />’ statement, but this makes it so nothing is password protected. In other methods, everything is password protected.

Please see my code below, I would love some help on this one!

<txp:if_individual_article>

<txp:if_category name=“news,archive”> <txp:password_protect login=“xxx” pass=“yyy” /> </txp:if_category> <txp:article form=“article_full” limit=“1” sort=“Posted asc” status=“sticky”/> <txp:article form=“article_full” limit=“1” sort=“Posted asc” status=“live”/>

<txp:else/>

<txp:article_custom form=“article_excerpt” limit=“1” pgonly=“0” section=“news” sort=“Posted desc” status=“sticky”/> <txp:soo_if_frontpage section=“news”> <txp:article_custom form=“article_excerpt” limit=“99” pgonly=“0” section=“news” sort=“Posted desc” category=“news,senior-pathways” expired=“0” /> <txp:else /> <txp:article_custom form=“article_excerpt” limit=“99” pgonly=“0” section=“news” sort=“Posted desc” category=’<txp:category type=“article”/>’ expired=“1” /> </txp:soo_if_frontpage>

</txp:if_individual_article>

#2 2013-06-20 08:40:25

springworks

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Registered: 2005-01-06

Posts: 172

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Re: Password protect certain categories

lara wrote:

I have three categories (news,archive,senior-pathways) within my news section and I want all articles password protected except for one category(senior-pathways).

Is this possible or for security reasons, can you not segment password protecting?

I have tried a lot of things but nothing seems to work. The most logical method I can think of is putting an <txp:if_category name="news,archive"> around the <txp:password_protect login="xxx" pass="yyy" /> statement, but this makes it so nothing is password protected. In other methods, everything is password protected.

Please see my code below, I would love some help on this one!

<txp:if_individual_article>

    <txp:if_category name="news,archive">
          <txp:password_protect login="xxx" pass="yyy" />
    </txp:if_category>

    <txp:article form="article_full" limit="1" sort="Posted asc" status="sticky"/>
    <txp:article form="article_full" limit="1" sort="Posted asc" status="live"/>     

<txp:else/>

      <txp:article_custom form="article_excerpt" limit="1" pgonly="0" section="news" sort="Posted desc" status="sticky"/>
      <txp:soo_if_frontpage section="news">
            <txp:article_custom form="article_excerpt" limit="99" pgonly="0" section="news" sort="Posted desc" category="news,senior-pathways" expired="0" />
      <txp:else />
            <txp:article_custom form="article_excerpt" limit="99" pgonly="0" section="news" sort="Posted desc" category='<txp:category type="article"/>' expired="1" />
      </txp:soo_if_frontpage>

</txp:if_individual_article>

I think you need to use a plugin to do this. I’ve used ign_password_protect on a site to provide a private members-only section and it works very well with Txp 4.5.4. You could also try looking at cbe_frontauth.

Try using this code:

<txp:if_individual_article>

    <txp:if_category name="news,archive">

          <txp:ign_if_logged_in>

              <txp:article form="article_full" limit="1" sort="Posted asc" status="sticky"/>
              <txp:article form="article_full" limit="1" sort="Posted asc" status="live"/>     

          <txp:else />

              <p>Please log in to view this article.</p>
              <txp:ign_show_login />

          </txp:ign_if_logged_in>

    <txp:else />

        <txp:article form="article_full" limit="1" sort="Posted asc" status="sticky"/>
        <txp:article form="article_full" limit="1" sort="Posted asc" status="live"/>     

    </txp:if_category>

<txp:else/>

      <txp:article_custom form="article_excerpt" limit="1" pgonly="0" section="news" sort="Posted desc" status="sticky"/>
      <txp:soo_if_frontpage section="news">
            <txp:article_custom form="article_excerpt" limit="99" pgonly="0" section="news" sort="Posted desc" category="news,senior-pathways" expired="0" />
      <txp:else />
            <txp:article_custom form="article_excerpt" limit="99" pgonly="0" section="news" sort="Posted desc" category='<txp:category type="article"/>' expired="1" />
      </txp:soo_if_frontpage>

</txp:if_individual_article>

#3 2013-06-20 13:19:25

etc

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Re: Password protect certain categories

Try to replace <txp:if_category /> by <txp:if_article_category />, putting this in your article form:

<txp:if_article_category name="news,archive">
	<txp:password_protect login="xxx" pass="yyy" />
</txp:if_article_category>

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