How to request the login page for newly integrated pages

[Dalal]

Hello everyone,

I have an issues and I really need your help.

I have created about three additional pages and integrated them to the OJS system. I would like to request the login page before accessing these new pages if the user is not yet logged or registered.

I appreciate your help so much

[jmacgreg]

Hi Dalal,

How have you created those pages? You can't currently restrict access to pages created using the Static Pages plugin, but if you have created the pages in another way we may be able to help.

Cheers,
James

[Dalal]

Hello James,
Sorry for my delayed reply.
I created my pages separately, by creating php files and uploading them to the server. I created links to those pages in the header menu of the OJS by simply replacing the reference with the URL of the pages.
The pages are kind of isolated from the whole OJS system.
However, I would like to request the login page to restrict users entering those pages without logging in.
Thank you in advance.

[mcrider]

Hi Dalal,

Is there a reason you haven't used the static pages plugin? Doing something like this without the static pages plugin would take a good deal more work--You'll have to create the appropriate handlers in the pages/ directory, and corresponding templates in the templates/ directory. Using the static pages is a lot simpler IMHO

Cheers,
Matt

[Dalal]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

About the Static Pages plug-in, can I create PHP pages? I already have them, is it going to be easy to implement them using this plug-in?

As noted, if using such a plug-in, I can’t access the pages from the general website. I have to enter one of my journals and then I’ll find the link in the header. Do you have any idea if I can make the links visible in the general website?

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Dalal

[mcrider]

Hi Dalal,

IIRC, content for the static pages plugin is stored in the database, so you can't really use any PHP code in them (only HTML/javascript). You can create your own pages, but it would take a good deal of work and would require some familiarity with the system and definitely some PHP experience. To do this, I would suggest duplicating the 'about' directory in the pages/ and template/ directories, and renaming 'about' everywhere to the name of your new page (e.g. 'newStuff'). If you do this correctly you would then access your new pages through www.yourdomain.com/ojs/index.php/newStuff/. This is of course a very high level description of what to do--Actually doing this entails a significant amount of work, especially if you're not too familiar with OJS.

Cheers,
Matt