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Anonymous
October 20, 2011
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How to force a user to agree to something before granting access?

  • October 20, 2011
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I expect this to be pretty common, but I've never had call to do this so....

I have a site and for one of the areas I want the user to accept some conditions before allowing them to have access.

Is this simply a matter of setting some global variable in PHP on the condition page (via accept button) and then checking that variable on the page I want to control?

Tom

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Lon_Winters
Lon_Winters
Inspiring
October 20, 2011

Pretty much. Include ans Access Level field in your database, and update that value when the user performs the agreement. It can be a checkbox or radio button value, or set in a hidden field where the message is, "by clicking submit, you agree.. "

Then use page restrictions on the pages that require a certain access level that checks the user name and access level, both which are set as session variables when the user logs in.

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Anonymous
October 24, 2011

Hi Lon

What I'm looking for is a little different.  There's not going to be a user name (i.e. no log on).  What I want is for any user to first agree to some conditions before allowing access to a section of the site.

That section contains some map images that people can download.  (If you recall, this is the site you helped me with master/detail).  I want to make sure a user acknowledges some caveats (legal stuff).

I want the "authorization" to persist as long as they're on the site even if they leave the maps area to look at other pages (that are not controlled).

I don't understand php and web sessions well enough to know how variables are set to be accessible across pages.  I also don't understand when a variable is reset as a user navigates away from a site.  What I mean is, for example, if a user comes to the site and wants to access the maps pages they will have to acknowledge the caveats.  I want that authorization to persist as long as their browser "session" continues.  Can I do that?

I've done some reading on sessions but I don't know if that's the right approach since the user may navigate (via url) directly to the maps page(s).  In a way what I want is to check on a maps page whether the user has acknowledged the caveats.  If not, I want to force them to that page.

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