Authenticate Users for Custom Content

[tim18]

Hello,

I've made some custom pages that i really don't want guests to see, but rather only proper users.
Ive been looking through lots of the code to try and figure out what i need to add to my pages to make coppermine check for authentication on my custom pages.
The most frustrating thing is i remember reading a post from Gau Gau where he said something about authenticating users, but i simply cannot find it.
I'm fairly certain its not more than one line of code, as i believe most of coppermine's pages are authenticated.

If someone knows the code or the post on user authentication, please reply.

Thanks
Tim

[Joachim Müller]

Album properties, change "Album can be viewed by" from "Everybody (public album)" to "Members of the registered group". Explained in the docs - please read before posting. No modification of the code needed.

[tim18]

Sorry,

There is a misunderstanding.

I have created a "custom page", my own page that uses:

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<?php
define('IN_COPPERMINE', true);
require('include/init.inc.php');
pageheader('Main Forum');
include('source_main_forum.php');
pagefooter();
//(!USER_ID) {
?>

to create the menu system around my own content.

This is an entirely seperate page from the coppermine photo gallery. You wrote some code once that allowed a "custom page" to be authenticated.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Tim

[Joachim Müller]

To check if the visitor is logged in, try using the constant USER_ID:

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<?php
if (!USER_ID) {
  // the visitor is a guest
  cpg_die(ERROR, $lang_errors['access_denied'], __FILE__, __LINE__);
}
?>

[tim18]

Gau Gau,

This worked perfectly. I sincerely thank-you for your time!

Cheers
Tim