Set user message for "Permission Denied"

Permalink April 30, 2014 at 3:22 PM

I have been looking through the dashboard options, the documentation and these forums, but perhaps I do not know the correct terms to search for....

I would like to have an "access denied" type of page pop up when a user tries to click onto a page that they do not have permission to view. Currently, a login page appears. My website consists of static pages, and therefore has no need to ever allow user logins. As the administrator, I am the only user, the rest of the site is visible and functional to the general public. Sometimes, I will lock permission on certain pages as I am developing them, and I don't want them to be available to anyone else. This is where I would like the "access denied" message to appear.

For the most part, this should not be a problem, as I will remove links to those pages until I am ready for them to be published; however, if anyone else has linked to those pages, or bookmarked them, I would rather have the "denied" message appear than a "login" screen.

Is this a feature that is as simple as ticking or unticking a box, or is what I'm looking for not quite so simple?

hutman replied on May 1, 2014 at 10:00 am Permalink Reply

I think if you copy the /concrete/controllers/page_forbidden.php to /controllers/page_forbidden.php and grab the view function from concrete/core/controllers/single_pages/page_forbidden.php and comment out

parent::view();
$u = new User();
$logged = $u->isLoggedIn();
if(!$logged && FORBIDDEN_SHOW_LOGIN) { //if they are not logged in, and we show guests the login...
   $this->render('/login');
}

it should do what you are looking for.