Help with login page

I am creating a project managemnet page for my photo retouching website. I basically want a login page similar to the page pulled up when you go to the manager. Then from here I can set users settings to go to specific pages and only see specific pages. How can I make the login page look like the one used for the manager? This might seem like a very simple thing but I am new to php and css.

Thanks

Mark

Was new a month ago as well. And learned that the minimium you’d need to keep going is css knowledge. Php followed jsut easily along. Suggest to keep http://www.w3schools.com/ there to help out with syntax and examples...

Quote from: the at Sep 18, 2006, 07:40 AM

I am creating a project managemnet page for my photo retouching website. I basically want a login page similar to the page pulled up when you go to the manager. Then from here I can set users settings to go to specific pages and only see specific pages. How can I make the login page look like the one used for the manager? This might seem like a very simple thing but I am new to php and css.

Thanks

Mark

Hi,
I don’t know an obvious recipe for this, because the Manager templates seem to be in a separate area from the public templates, if you will. So this may be somewhat tricky, especially if you don’t know how CSS works.

I’ve got some ideas to get you started. Go here first to learn how to set up a template: http://modxcms.com/template-basics.html
You’ll need make your template out of HTML, and then put in the necessary MODx variables. To get some idea of what this HTML will look like in action, "view source" when you’re at your admin log-in page. This would be the template plus the variable data that it’s pulled in.

If you’re using the MODx template in your manager (go into administration/system configuration/misc. settings to find out), then your CSS code is here, I think, in your file system. You can look through that to see what’s being used.
/ manager / media / style / MODx /

Then again, somebody may have found a quick-and-dirty way to do this, who knows?

Good luck!

Quote from: Tom at Sep 18, 2006, 09:31 AM

Was new a month ago as well. And learned that the minimium you’d need to keep going is css knowledge. Php followed jsut easily along. Suggest to keep http://www.w3schools.com/ there to help out with syntax and examples...

THanks. Im learning that css is the major think for me to learn.

Quote from: samba at Sep 18, 2006, 10:49 AM

Hi,
I don’t know an obvious recipe for this, because the Manager templates seem to be in a separate area from the public templates, if you will. So this may be somewhat tricky, especially if you don’t know how CSS works.

I’ve got some ideas to get you started. Go here first to learn how to set up a template: http://modxcms.com/template-basics.html
You’ll need make your template out of HTML, and then put in the necessary MODx variables. To get some idea of what this HTML will look like in action, "view source" when you’re at your admin log-in page. This would be the template plus the variable data that it’s pulled in.

If you’re using the MODx template in your manager (go into administration/system configuration/misc. settings to find out), then your CSS code is here, I think, in your file system. You can look through that to see what’s being used.
/ manager / media / style / MODx /

Then again, somebody may have found a quick-and-dirty way to do this, who knows?

Good luck!

I guess the template isn’t the thing im most worried about here. I need to figureout how to place the login boxes on this page. Then i’ll just make it my home page and when people go there it will only let them login and once they do i can redirect them to their own pages. I just like the look of the login for the manager.

Quote from: the at Sep 18, 2006, 11:50 AM

I guess the template isn’t the thing im most worried about here. I need to figureout how to place the login boxes on this page. Then i’ll just make it my home page and when people go there it will only let them login and once they do i can redirect them to their own pages. I just like the look of the login for the manager.

Ah... that’s not as big a deal.
Here are a host of items designed to help with log-in and related things. These are mainly snippets and chunks. Plenty of info about how to use them in MODx documentation. I suspect "Personalize" may be good for you.
http://modxcms.com/resource-listing.html&tags=personalization

Once you get your snippet or chunk all installed and ready, then you call it from your page like this:

{{chunk}} ... or....
[[snippet]]

If you want to alter the look of your page, you’ll need to deal with templates/CSS at some point unless you tweak your HTML chunk to give a particular look.

I seem to be getting the drift that you’d like something that’s a little bit more plug-and-play. MODx’s great power and flexibility do require you to get your hands at least a little dirty. If you’re simply looking for a CMS for photos with separate log-ins for user pages, even a blogging system may be good for that, and may even already have bunches of themes you can simply download and choose rather than doing any CSS or template fiddling.

Having said that, when big 1.0 MODx comes out, who knows what hot goodies it may contain.

Happy hunting!