Logged in users only

Hi,
I want my form to show to all so that they know what the form is all about, but they are not allowed to post the messages unless they are logged in. Is that kind of validation already there in the "Submit" button?

Thank you in anticipation

Hi,

sorry but no, that is not possible out of the box.

Regards,
Aicha

Hi,
Do you think the code below is enough for that kind of validation ? If yes where exactly should I put them?
Thank you.

P.S. Most of the times I am having trouble logging in this forum. It says 'It seems you are a spammer etc......" and won't allow me to login and sometimes it works just fine.

Hi,

first, I use a spam protection software and I can see that your IP, although it seems to change daily, often is listed as a spammer IP at the spambot database of sorbs.net. That is, why your login is blocked. I have set you as a trusted user, so you should no longer be blocked, no matter your IP.

I think your code proposition is ok. The best way to use it would be to create an override of the default form view in your template. (Create a folder html/com_visforms/visforms in your template root folder and copy the default.php from components/com_visforms/views/visforms/tmpl intot it).

Add your code to that copied default.php in the template folder. Almost at the bottom of the default.php (about line 465) you find a div class="visBtnCon, which is closed about line 500. Wrap the whole div in your "else" statement and you have a form without submit button for guest users. So you will not stop the submit event but just don't offer a submit button, so that the form cannot be submitted.

Regards,
Aicha

Thank you Aicha,

Yes our ISP provides dynamic IP everytime you login. I have no idea how sorbs.net works but this state owned ISP is one of the largest in the world with 8.09 million subscribers base at the moment.

My form in question is embeded with an article as a module so in my case I created a folder html/mod_visforms/ in my root template folder and copied default.php from modules/mod_visforms/tmpl in it.

Unfortunately that's my exact requirment at the moment, i.e. hold the processing of submit event until the user is logged in. On clicking submit button the user will be warned " You are not logged in" or "Please login to submit" if they are not logged in yet.

Your guidance in this regard will be highly appreciated.

Hi,

in the default.php at line 118 ff you find the following code

Just insert the following lines between the second and the third line (before the "wrapper" - line).

The only drawback in my opion is, that the submitHandler is executed after the validator. So the user will fill in the form, correct all there invalid inputs, try to submit and gets the message to login first. After the login the form controls are empty again, so they have to enter the values again.

But maybe you can improve that solution by reading a bit more about the jQuery validator plugin.

Regards,
Aicha