Re: [mv] Wholesale Catalog with Members Area

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

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At 06:24 PM 5/18/00 -0400, you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from Eric Paul 
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>I have a client who is a wholesaler.  They only want authorized resellers 
>to be able to access the products database, and casual people to be able 
>to get company info and that sort of thing.  Right now I am parsing all 
>their pages thru minivend.
>
>My question is, has anyone worked on a "Members Area" with minivend?  I'm 
>assuming I can just modify the existing useradd pages from the simple demo 
>and put them somewhere that the catalog admin can get to so they can add 
>new users.  One thing I'm not really clear on how to do is a good way to 
>check for illegal login attempts and lock out accounts after so many bad 
>attempts.  Any ideas?

Eric -

Minivend provides a variety of tools to control access, and as you may have 
suspected, you could approach this any number of ways.  The simplest would 
be enclosed chunks of pages in:

[if session logged_in]
... (html and MV tags here)
[/if]

...in this way you could exclude visitors who are not logged in from ever 
being served the sensitive info. Past that, there the access control via 
the userdb acl field, which can be used to both protect content from 
unlogged users and control content access on a user-by-user, page-by-page 
basis.  Finally, you can always create your own field(s) in userdb, which 
can be checked with [value] tags, for highly custom control.

- Ed L.
Printex Marking Technologies
12113 Kirkham Rd.
Poway, CA  92064  U.S.A.
858-513-2418
800-982-1928
858-513-2419 FAX
http://www.printexusa.com

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