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MODx Web Development - Second Edition

You're reading from  MODx Web Development - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849513487
Pages 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Toc

Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. What is MODx? 2. Getting Started 3. MODx Basics 4. Templating 5. Authentication and Authorization 6. Content Aggregation 7. Creating Lists 8. Snippets 9. PHx 10. Simple Recipes 11. Creating Snippets 12. SEO, Deployment, and Security 13. Plugins and Modules 14. MODx Revolution

Creating a web user


Let us start by creating a web user. Web users are users who can access restricted resource groups in the website (frontend); they do not have Manager access.

Web users can identify themselves at login by using login forms. They are allowed to log in from the user page, but they cannot log in using the Manager interface. To create a web user, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Click on the Web Users menu item in the Security menu.

  2. 2. Click on New Web User.

  3. 3. Fill in the fields with the following information:

    Field Name

    Value

    Username

    samira

    Password

    samira123

    Email Address

    xyz@configurelater.com

  4. 4. Click on the Save button.

Now you will see a page like the example shown in the following screenshot, which lists all of the web users on your site:

Other user properties

When you click on any user on the web users' page, a page opens that allows you to edit the existing information and also shows simple statistics, such as when the user last logged in. It is also possible to...

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