[Fwd: Re: [Zope] [Newbie] Making my own authentication form - HOW

Zahid Malik z.malik@ic.ac.uk
Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:28:38 +0000


Wow, thank you I will try it out. You have been very kind.

Zahid

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:46:14AM +0100, Antonio Beamud Montero wrote:
> I will describe how I solved "making my own authentication form" :-)
> Well my product is based in folders, and I need when create a instance
> of my product automagically create a user folder, a cookie mecanism and
> the login forms, but I don't want to touch the cookie crumbler login
> forms... I will do that:
> from Products.CookieCrumbler.CookieCrumbler import CookieCrumbler,
> manage_addCC
> 
> class MyProduct(Folder):
>   .....
>   def create_user_logins(self):
>     """ Create the user login forms, etc..."""
>      # Create the built-in user folder    
>      self.manage_addUserFolder()
>      # create the Cookie Crumbler product instance, by default it     
>      # doesn't create login forms
>      manage_addCC(self,'Cookies')
>      # Example. How to create a user from an external method
>      self.acl_users.userFolderAddUser('exuser','exuser',['Manager'],'')
>      # Create our login forms
>      self.create_login_forms()
>     
>   def create_login_forms():
>      addDTML(self, 'login_form','Pantalla de acceso', 'dtml/login_form')
>      addDTML(self, 'logged_in', 'Pantalla de inicio', 'dtml/logged_in')
>      addDTML(self, 'logged_out', 'Pantalla de salida','dtml/logged_out')
> 
> #Piece of code from Squishdot :-)
> 
> file_path=Globals.package_home(globals())
> def addDTML(obj, id, title, file):
>     f = open(file_path + '/' + file + '.dtml')
>     file = f.read()
>     f.close()
>     obj.manage_addDTMLMethod(id, title, file)
>     return getattr(obj, id)
> 
> Inside my dtml directory I have three methods: login_form, logged_in,
> logged_out, in this moment are the login forms that comes with Cookie
> Crumbler product, but you can put all that you want...
> 
> I hope that this howto help you...
> 
> -- 
> Microsoft merges technologoies: 
> Windows CE + Windows ME + Windows NT = Windows CEMENT
> 
> ----
> Antonio Beamud Montero
> Agora Systems S.A.
> 
> http://www.agoratechnologies.com

Content-Description: Reenviado mensaje - Re: [Zope] [Newbie] Making my own authentication form
> From: Zahid Malik <z.malik@ic.ac.uk>
> To: Antonio Beamud Montero <antonio.beamud@agora-2000.com>
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] [Newbie] Making my own authentication form
> 
> That is very encouraging to here. If it is ok with you I think it would
> be useful for people if you could possibly post some code snippets
> showing exactly how you did the dtml methods. I know I would find this
> extremely useful and time saving.
> 
> I will definetly be going down the CookieCrumbler route. I even emailed
> Jens (who wrote CUF) and he reccommended use using CookieCrumbler with a
> normal acl_user folder for this type of problem.
> 
> Thanks for your time
> 
> Zahid
> 
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:35:23AM +0100, Antonio Beamud Montero wrote:
> > El jue, 07-03-2002 a las 23:04, Zahid Malik escribi?:
> > > Many thanks
> > > 
> > > I'll look at cookie crumbler because that would be ideal for my purposes
> > > although have played with exUserFolder before but couldn't get the forms
> > > working. That was a few revisions ago so things might have changed.
> > > 
> > 
> > Cookie crumbler is very easy to configure and works fine. Only you need
> > is to redefine the login_form.dtml, logged_in.dtml and logged_out.dtml
> > and all works ok.
> > I have defined this DTML methods in my own product and create an User
> > Folder and a Cookie Crumbler (with its default login methods), after I
> > create this login forms in the same folder that lives acl_user an Cookie
> > crumbler and all works ok... 
> > 
> > Greetings
> > -- 
> > Microsoft merges technologoies: 
> > Windows CE + Windows ME + Windows NT = Windows CEMENT
> > 
> > ----
> > Antonio Beamud Montero
> > Agora Systems S.A.
> > 
> > http://www.agoratechnologies.com
> > 
> 
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Imperial College			http://infoeng.ee.ic.ac.uk/~malikz
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