Joomla Authentication

Question

Okay I'm a little confused on how to do this due to the fact that I'm new to Joomla.

I have a site where users need to be logged in to view certain articles. I want restricted articles to basically pick up weather or not the user is logged in, if so proceed as normal, else display a login/registration form.

I looked at the plugins section and found a "Joomla-Authentication" plugin. Now, how do I use that in an article in the same fashion I use other plugins in article? i.E {plugin_name}params{/plugin_name}

Answer 1

NO... You do not need plugin for this AT ALL.

In Joomla you have "Access Type" for modules/articles/pretty much everything.

• Public - Visitors
• Registered - logged in users
• Special - back-end users

In Back-End go to Modules and create new Log-In module. In the access type selected "Public".

When you create articles select "Registered Access" this way only signed-in users will see the article.

This will help you. Log-In the admin Back-End (Administrator Screen), go to Help->Joomla Help. In the Alphabetical Index find following topics:

1. Module Manager (it explains access types)
2. Module - New
3. Article Manager (it explains access types)
4. Article Manager - New/Edit

Answer 2

I found a solution that works for me. I downloaded and installed JUMI. Jumi is a Joomla extension that allows you to include files such as php and then executes the code in those files. Through PHP I check user access and do redirects accordingly.

JUMI can be downloaded here