Member-Only Pages with Revo for high number of users

Hi, I need to realize a website with user registration, where each user can access (even only with read permission) to his own resource(s).

I read several tutorial:
http://bobsguides.com/user-specific-pages.html
http://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/administering-your-site/security/security-tutorials/making-member-only-pages
and https://forums.modx.com/thread/?thread=51259.&i=1&page=1

Everything very clear and works perfectly, but... I need to manage a high number of users, let's say 1.000, so it would become difficult to assign resources to different resource's group with these methods.

Do you think I can solve somehow, may be with some extra or developing something new,
or I should consider a different software more focused on users membership?

Thanks!

Well, if you use the user ID for the createdby field when creating the resource, you could use a snippet to load the resource that was created by the current user, and only load it if the current user is the createdby user.

Thanks, sounds interesting, simple and clever solution!

May be I could also create a plugin with event OnUserActivate that automatically creates a new resource with the createdby = new user id.

I'm only worried about security, do you think it should be a safe solution?

You could also use the user's username or ID in the pagetitle, alias, and/or some other resource field. Creating a User setting for each User with the page's ID would be another option.

There is also this: http://bobsguides.com/blog.html/2013/04/28/newspublisherrestricting-users-to-their-own-pages/

I find it's easier to accomplish something like this through the front end using Bobrays newspublisher the only real issue you might run into is accessing stuff like migxtvs or any other crazy stuff or extras that don't play nice with newspublisher.

Doing something like this in the manager will definitely be a PITA IMHO.

May be I could also create a plugin with event OnUserActivate that automatically creates a new resource with the createdby = new user id.

This sounds like a good plan.
You could also create a TV 'user_id'

Lastly, we created a CMP, where logged in users could only access and edit their own resource's with MIGXdb.
They had only access to that CMP.

Thank you all for your answers, I think I'll start playing with NewsPublisher solution that seems quicker to be developed,
once again MODX "can do it"

Quote from: tillilab at Mar 20, 2014, 03:37 AM

Thank you all for your answers, I think I'll start playing with NewsPublisher solution that seems quicker to be developed,
once again MODX "can do it"

Hi tillilab,
any best practise on that. Have a similar requirement and wonder how it worked out for you. How did you solve that each user can create, edit and view only his own ressources, as NewsPublisher is not providing that by default, as far as I can see on a short glance.

To do it with NewsPublisher, you have to augment it as described here: http://bobsguides.com/blog.html/2013/04/28/newspublisherrestricting-users-to-their-own-pages/

I had a setup where on registration a user got his own user group, his own resource with its own resource group to match his user group, and his own folder for uploaded images, all done with a plugin and an interesting snippet (part of the MIGX package) to use as the path for the Media Source to provide a dynamic Media Source.

I'll attach the setup for Admin-created users. It's much the same as the automated Registration system. [ed. note: sottwell last edited this post 11 years, 10 months ago.]