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Brief Description:
DocPassword - Protect MODx documents with a unique password (Member accounts are not necessary!) See full description for list of features! [ed. note: pixelchutes last edited this post 14 years, 6 months ago.]

For clarification Mike, this is functionally like an .htaccess directory protection method, no?

Quote from: rthrash at Jan 07, 2008, 02:30 PM

For clarification Mike, this is functionally like an .htaccess directory protection method, no?

For the most part, I believe they are similar. Essentially, it provides a way (via MODx GUI) to manually define a "password" for any document on your site. DocPassword can also protect directories (containers) recursively. I believe it may even be used to protect Weblinks.

I created it per lmv’s request to see how it might be accomplished via MODx. It is intended for sites that might want to password protect content in a document (or, say a Download URL), but not require user registration in order to do so.

On a related note: Do you know whether .htaccess protection can be applied for Friendly URLs using the "alias_path" feature of MODx? (As these are not physical directories on the file system...)

My understanding is that .htaccess requires physical files/directories on the server and won’t work with MODx. Which is what makes this contribution quite cool.

Indeed that’s great !

The fact it supports @INHERIT is really even cooler, it can make up for the limitations of the current permission system
And session-based authentication is really sugar on the cake

Thanks Mike !

Great snippet, thanks!
Is possible to protect a folder and automatically all her sons? I mean, without put [!DocPassword!] and set a password for all documents

You could do that edipo by putting the snippet call in a TV set for @INHERIT as the default value.

Thanks for the answer... I’have made a TV with this default value: @INHERIT [!DocPassword!]
but it doesn’t work 
When I insert [*DocPassword*] in my template I have two forms in the my "unauthorized page"

I cant get it to work oh dear

im using friendly urls

i have made the TV

i have made a page called admin, the url to the page is like thus, mysite.com/admin

in the content section of this page i am putting [!DocPassword!]

and in the template variabe i am typing test which will be the password

when i go to the page mysite.com/admin the url changes to mysite.com/2?unauthid=11 (11 is the id of the admin page) 2 is the default error page

What am i doing wrong?

Quote from: rthrash at Jan 14, 2008, 09:59 AM

You could do that edipo by putting the snippet call in a TV set for @INHERIT as the default value.

I should point out that @INHERIT does work (natively via MODx), however the SESSION compare code will need one or more additional checks to check by parent. I will see if I can get an example put together...