Answered MODX PageLocker only works for 24 hours

Hi, i am having a problem with MODX Revo and PageLocker. It all appears to work fine, user must enter a password for a page etc. 24 hours later though and a password isn't required, regardless of what machine you are logging in from. If you clear the cache manually, the password is requested again, but only for about a 24 hour period and then it goes back to no password. Any ideas as to what could be the problem?

Are you calling the PageLocker snippet uncached (with the exclamation point)?

Hi Boy Ray, thanks for your response - this may seem like a very silly question, but where is the pagelocker snippet called - i can't find that out? It has a pagelocker page template and two template variables assigned to the password protected page. Any ideas? Many thanks for your time

My guess is that it would be in the page template(s).

Unfortunately not..... it does seem ridiculous that i can't find it, but it definitely isn't referenced from within the page template. Any ideas anyone!?

Been struggling with this one for a while - are there any other plugins out there for password protecting a single page?

Sorry, I don't know of any. The pagelocker tag would almost have to be in either the template, or in a chunk or TV referenced in the template.

That's what i would have thought, but i have been through it with a fine tooth comb. The instructions state that you can do anything with the PageLockerFormTemplate as long as the form within it contains a password field named "password" and there is no mention of the PageLocker tag (see below). The TVs we have to create, and again, they just need to be called pagePassword and pagePasswordGroup and of type 'text'.

I have looked for documentation on how PageLocker works in order to try and delve down some more but can't find anything, other than the instructions given below. Do you know of any other documentation that may help?

Instructions for PageLocker:

• Install PageLocker through Package Management.
• Create a new resource, and assign it the "PageLockerFormTemplate" template. Click save, and make a note of the resource's ID. This template can be customized as much as you want, so long as the form within it contains a password field named "password". NOTE: this template should ONLY be used for the form page, and not for any other pages (including your protected pages).
• Open the PageLocker plugin, and on the "Properties" tab, unlock the default properties and enter the resource ID from Step 2 as the value for "formResourceID". NOTE: The plugin will not work without a value set for this property.
• Create two new template variables, named "pagePassword" and "pagePasswordGroup" (if you use different names, you must also change the plugin's corresponding property values). "pagePassword" should have a text input type. "pagePasswordGroup" should ideally be either a text, tag or listbox input type (a listbox can help control the names of your password group names). Assign these two TVs to whatever templates need password protection.
• Go to the individual page you want to protect, and fill in a password. Optionally, choose a group. Users who successfully enter a password for a page will be able to enter any other pages within the same group without re-entering a password.

There is no snippet. It's a plugin, and is based on the template a resource uses. If the resource has a password or a group set in its TV, then PageLocker comes into play, otherwise it doesn't. There's no time involved here, it's a simple yes/no situation. Either a TV is set or it isn't. Actually it's a pretty simple plugin.

If there is a TV value, and the user's submission matches the resource's password, there are a couple of SESSION values that get set. This timing business makes me think that there's something about the session tables causing this, and it's not that the page doesn't require a password, but that the user's SESSION values have been restored.

Sorry about that. The version I found when I looked was a snippet.

https://github.com/aladage/pagelocker