You said that RokAccess was for Joomla 1.0 - if I want to use it in Joomla 1.5 like you state do I have to have legacy mode enabled?

No, I think you just have to hack the rokaccess.php file as described in the article.

You're spot on GreatGatsby, RokAccess should work without legacy mode enabled. Welcome to GoodWebPractices by the way!!!

Hi David,

Thank you for featuring Ninja Access in your article.

$30 is a heck of a lot to pay for Ninja Access (I wouldn't pay that myself unless it was for a well-paying client project), so I just wanted to stress again that the $30 is for membership in the club, which means you actually get dozens of professionally supported extensions for the $30.

Also, Ninja Access... like all the other extensions we provide to our members, is not proprietary and can be used on as many websites as one wishes.

Thanks again for the mention David. If this post sounds more "salesy" then informative, apologies and feel free to delete it.

Cheers

Thanks for pointing that out Mark.

The Ninja Access Silver Membership gives access to lots of other extensions, but as I stated in my post the key advantage to the Ninja Access plugin is the professional support. I expect some of our readers will choose to use Ninja Access because of the support rather than the actual extension being better than the others.

For php5 change this
function botRokAccess( &$row, &$params, $page=0 ) {
to this
function botRokAccess( $row, $params, $page=0 ) {

Great article David!

I am curious if you have tried out or looked at JoomSuite J!1.5 extensions: http://joomsuite.com/

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks Aravot for that.

Salyris Studios, I haven't actually used any of your extensions yet.

Am I right in thinking your "JoomSuite Permission" extension would allow the restricting of content based upon membership? Perhaps you could tell us more about it?

There is a new plugin from GreatJoomla.com which also control display of content to just the site users that you want to have see it, here is the link: http://extensions.joomla.org/c...Itemid,35/

Sorry David, the JoomSuite are not a Salyris Studios product, I was just curious if you knew much about them or used them. ;-)

Ok my mistake! Well I haven't tried the JoomSuite extensions yet...

Thanks for the info here. I thought I'd add some info on JoomSuite products as I've purchased four of them; JoomMember, JoomUser, JoomContent, and JoomDefender. While I think these components have potential, they are all technically still in beta. Support is just ok, so expect to wait a few days for responses. The English in all the components is atrocious, so plan on digging through the ini files. Note that all components are also encrypted, so customization is limited. This being said, JoomUser is pretty stable but does require a hack to your login mod if you don't use theirs, but I held off on buying the permissions component due to way too many bugs. I'd say visit them in August when they claim their components will be officially released.

Thanks for the feedback re: JoomSuite's products Kevin!

Does RokAccess work with 'JXtended Control' defined user groups?

Thanks!

re: Rok Access ...

Easy, and exactly what I needed! I'm redesigning the website for the church I work at, and we need/want to keep some areas accessible to registered users (church members) only. I'm working on a photo gallery, and instead of having 2 galleries, this lets me work around and only have one, showing the restricted galleries to members.

I did have to enable legacy mode to install the plugin. After that, I just had to make those 3 changes, and Bob's your uncle!

I had to leave legacy mode enabled to avoid this error message ...

"Direct Access to this location is not allowed."

... Not a big deal, and with my luck, it won't happen to others, but a heads-up nonetheless.

Great thanks for the info Andrea! Glad you found it useful. Feel free to post the address of the site you've been using it on! Cheers.

Even with the changes you indicated to make it work with Joomla! 1.5, I still had a problem that appeared on all my site's pages:
Direct Access to this location is not allowed.

So, I made this change:
defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' );
to:
defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );

Hope it helps. Thanks for tips.

Hmmmm.... After posting my comment I've noted that Andrea had the same problem about Direct Access. I think the best way to solve this is to change the code as I mentioned before instead of turning legacy mode on .

Cheers.

Thanks!!!

I have been using rokaccess in most my 1.0.x sites and now I was missing it for 1.5. This is great!!!!!!!

Rokaccess is an ESSENTIAL part of my Joomla 1.0.x site and now I'm upgrading to Joomla 1.5. I've tried the hack mentioned above and it seems to work for my content items, but NOT in the modules I also use Rokaccess in. Can anybody confirm that this hack does not work within modules or did I do something wrong? Also, thanks for the informative article.

I like what Andrea had to say; I also have a church site with similar requirements. However, I'm wondering if there's a way to make certain groups of users have access to certain content.

For instance, I would like our staff to have access to internal church documents, but not all registered users. And I don't want to make all the staff Authors, Editors or Publishers. I would like a custom group like "Staff". I'd like multiple groups, each with their own access control, and the ability to show/hide content to one or more of the groups.

I wanted to chime in again to let folks know that the Joomsuite extensions I reviewed earlier this year have been updated. I'm very happy with JoomMember and JoomUser, but there are some hacks that may be needed to get things working with thrid-party login modules and member registration.

I thought it would be worth mentioning a post in the Joomla forum with instructions on how to hack the Joomla core to hide complete modules when users are logged in (http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=178&t=114630&p=1379447&hilit=hide+module+registered#p1379447). I've performed these hacks on Joomla 1.5.6 and 1.5.7 with great success. The benefit to this is that any module can be hidden to registered users, not just a mod_custom. So you can hide Yootheme and NinjaForge extensions with some simple cut and paste. Of course, you have to redo the hacks every time you upgrade, but there are only two core files to change. The benefits far outweigh the inconvenience. Hope this helps some of you.

Hi guys
I just wanted to let your readers know that NinjaForge silver memberships are now only $5. (Was $30 when this review was written)

Hope this post is acceptable. Feel free to remove if not.

Thanks

I'd like to recommend a plugin called 'Hider'.
It's pretty basic, but does the job really well.

{reg}Only registered users will see this text{/reg}
{pub}Only non-registered users will see this text{/pub}

http://www.dioscouri.com/freedownloads/Download/HIDER-HideContent/

I installed Hider and it worked well within the articles, but when I tried to implement it within a custom template, {reg}Organization:{/reg} actually was outputted on the page in the browser as "{reg}Organization:{/reg}". Any ideas on how to get this to work within the template html?

hi guys

i am migrating to j1.5 and i used rokaccess. and i was satisfied.

now in j1.5 what can i use?

i need to hide content in the modules.

hider of dioscuri not works in the module.

give a look club.hotelsinitaly.travel

the other plugins?

Hi massimo. In Joomla 1.5 we've tried a few different options, you can actually get RokAccess working in Joomla 1.5 if you use the hack mentioned in the blog post above. For hiding content in modules, you could just make it so the module is only visible to registered users, would that work?

hi david,

rokaccess it doesn't work neither with hack also.

i need to make some txt available only to registered and another part only to guest.

I have tried some components but nothing works on my site. i don't why.

Hi again, that is strange. Have you tried Hider? http://www.dioscouri.com/freed...deContent/ ?

Otherwise, could it be an issue with your editor perhaps?

i need to hide content inside the modules rokaccess worked in that way, in j1.5 no.

hider can hide content in the module?

thanks for your help.

I have succesfully installed RokAccess on 1.5, a huge thanks guys, but I can confirm it does not work in my modules.

Here's my dilema, the content in a module is differnet for a registerd user than a guest, but I can't hide the guest module from a registered user, or can I?

Help apreciated

Great article David on getting RokAccess for 1.5.

I've followed the above instructions as well as those by baravot and Marco, but still am not able to get it working.

Works when I turn Legacy mode on though. Can anyone confirm they've got it working on 1.5 and maybe paste up their php code?

Thanks

Is there a way to hide a menu item (register here) from a main menu when you are registered? Or change it to something else (my menu)?

doesn't work in modules content

Hi.
I have install rocaccess and do the changes to work with J!1.5

But now, when i save the article with the variables for example {rocaccess guest}123{/rokaccess}

then comes an error like this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /......./plugins/content/rokaccess.php on line 107

Because of REGISTER_GLOBALS set to OFF in PHP 5 i suggest to change:
global $my;
to:
$my =& JFactory::getUser();
in function botRokAccess_replacer.
Best regards.

I just wondering whether is there any joomla plugin or anything that can show hidden content after user post a reply in that posting.

This method was used in lot of forum...'reply to show hidden content'

i'm using ninja access and when i restrict content i get an error message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home4/../plugins/content/njaccess.php(72) : eval()'d code on line 1

can you help me to resolve this problem!!
thank you!

i'm using ninga access but i get this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home4/.../plugins/content/njaccess.php(72) : eval()'d code on line 1

can you help me?
thank you!

Hi,

I just tested the RokAccess plug-in in Joomla 1.5 and it works fine...but is only removes the content and it is blank...how to add something like.."To view this page, please register".

Thanks for any help

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