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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

Restricting access for a resource


All of the resources so far have been created as All Resource Groups (Public). This means that anybody can access the resources. When we assign a resource to some other group, then only the users belonging to that particular group can access it. Now let us change the resource group of Post a Blog to onlyforfriends as follows:

  1. 1. Click on the Post a Blog! resource from the document tree.

  2. 2. Click on the Edit button.

  3. 3. Click on the Access Permissions tab.

  4. 4. Enable the onlyforfriends checkbox.

  5. 5. Click on the Save button.

User group: Resource group

If you have logged in as samira from the website, log off and preview the Post a Blog! page. You will still see the blog page. This is because when we assign a resource to a resource group, it is still accessible to everyone. Only when a user group is linked to a document group do the permissions become exclusive to that group. Now let us link the Friends user group to the onlyforfriends resource group.

  1. 1. Click on the...

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