Members Only Pages

General General Questions
1

I am trying to set up a members only page however when I set the user group to the group I created the “guest” group is still selected no matter what.



Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?





Chris

2

from my end this works, i´ve tested at the moment with an product. Have test it to one group access. And i´ve logged in with a customer at this group, it´s work fine, if i try to access without a member to this link, i get not page found error.



Also work!

3

Strange - I set this page to wholesale only and when I hit save the page comes back that it is open to guest and wholesale. See screenshot.

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4

stupid question, but on your screenshot you have enabled the site for access with usergroup Wholesale & Guest!???

5

When I click save, Guest is not selected. However, after the page refreshes it is.

6

Anyone else have anything to add on this issue?

7

I can’t speak to the access privileges not saving (my suspicion is a cache issue), but I’ve got pages set to members-only and I wanted to share how I did it.


  1. Add a User Group called “Members”.


  2. Add any user to the group (for testing).


  3. Set a page (ex. “members-only.html”) to be accessible ONLY for the “Members” group.


  4. If you try to hit that page and you’re not logged in as a user who’s part of this group, you’ll see CS-Cart’s standard 404.


  5. If you ARE logged in as a user who’s part of this group, you should see this page.



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    Now, the tricky part. I wanted to add a “Members Only” link to be visible only after a user was logged in. I added the following code to a template, “/skins/basic/customer/top_quick_links.tpl”:



{* show Members Only link if user is in Group 3 *}
{if !empty($auth.usergroup_ids)}
{foreach from=$auth.usergroup_ids item="groups"}
{if $groups==3}
Members Only
{/if}
{/foreach}
{/if}




This may not be the most efficient way to do it, but it’s the first solution I came across that worked properly.