hi there,

I wanted to say thank you for making this extension! I’m quite new to it, so i hope this isn’t a very silly question. I’m having some problems that i think might have something to do with sessions. I’ve installed it and according the installer, everything went okay. I can login okay, but as soon as i go to another page, i’m no longer logged in (for example, i login and then go to change password and it no longer says i am logged in; or i login as the admin, and then click on one of the admin menu options and it sends me back to the login).

I had setup sessions on code igniter before and they worked okay, and i checked ci_sessions in the database and it looks like all the session are being inserted there okay.

I tried changing the cookie autologin settings in the freakauth_light config file but that didn’t help.

I checked the forum for a similar problem, but only found one where someone had shut off cookies on their browser and my cookies are on so it shouldn’t be that.

I’m using php4 and the latest beta (1.0.2) of freakauth.

Also hopefully it’s okay, but as i was looking through the forum for some answers to my questions, i recorded some posts that seemed to answer my questions and thought it might be useful to put them up somewhere so i added some links in the codeigniter wiki under the heading ‘FAQ (some links to forum posts on specific problems)’. So hopefully that’s not the wrong place to put something like that. If it is i can remove it.

Okay but i really hope it’s not too silly a question, and i hope someone could point me in the right direction, it would be very much appreciated! Thanks again!

andrew.

Hi Guys

I am having a little trouble with the email from the register page. I ma using CI om a win box and receive this message when i try to register a user

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: mail(): SMTP server response: 550 Sender address is invalid

Filename: libraries/Email.php

Line Number: 1232

Any Ideas Anyone?

richman - 21 March 2007 11:42 PM

Hi Guys

I am having a little trouble with the email from the register page. I ma using CI om a win box and receive this message when i try to register a user

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: mail(): SMTP server response: 550 Sender address is invalid

Filename: libraries/Email.php

Line Number: 1232

Any Ideas Anyone?

Hi, you could try one of those:
- enable mails from your windows box (see this post from Dan)
- write a switch to deactivate mails (see this post from stevepaperjam)
- do some tests without mails, adding a user in the admin area.

Hope this helps…

hi grahack

I have read the posts and I have sent email form localhost before however my problem seems to lie with this line

$tobj->email->from($this->CI->config->item(‘FAL_user_support’), $this->CI->config->item(‘FAL_website_name’).’ ‘.$this->CI->config->item(‘FAL_email_from’));

This is in the _sendEmail function line 921 libaries\Freakauth_light.php

Basically I can fix the problem with replacing the line with

$tobj->email->from(‘richard@mysite.com’);

But I do not understand why and what the parameters for the $tobj are ?

Thanks Richard

richman - 22 March 2007 02:47 AM

hi grahack

I have read the posts and I have sent email form localhost before however my problem seems to lie with this line

$tobj->email->from($this->CI->config->item(‘FAL_user_support’), $this->CI->config->item(‘FAL_website_name’).’ ‘.$this->CI->config->item(‘FAL_email_from’));

This is in the _sendEmail function line 921 libaries\Freakauth_light.php

Basically I can fix the problem with replacing the line with

$tobj->email->from(‘richard@mysite.com’);

But I do not understand why and what the parameters for the $tobj are ?

Thanks Richard

Hey richman,
did you set the right config in application/config/freakauth_light.php?
Check you have this set properly:

According to the setting above this will basically send an e-mail from:
—> address: you@your_email.com
—>displaying: Your_website_name webmaster (in the ‘from’)

In this case (with the above settings) the line

is equivalent to

the papameters in $tobj->email->from are explained here in the user-guide:  Email Class

For sending e-mails FAL uses the native Code Igniter Email Class then refer to it for problems.

edwardmolasses - 21 March 2007 06:14 PM

hi there,

I wanted to say thank you for making this extension! I’m quite new to it, so i hope this isn’t a very silly question. I’m having some problems that i think might have something to do with sessions. I’ve installed it and according the installer, everything went okay. I can login okay, but as soon as i go to another page, i’m no longer logged in (for example, i login and then go to change password and it no longer says i am logged in; or i login as the admin, and then click on one of the admin menu options and it sends me back to the login).

andrew.

Hey Andrew, your welcome!
cheers for yous “help summary” in the wiki

Well yours is a strange issue!

Well ou said you have cookies enabled, and that your session is written ok in DB.

did you change any setting in the application/config/config.php ?

Dan

Okay ! it finally works, indeed I had a controller named “admin” which was bypassing the folder admin when I tried to login as an admin user. Now I have some questions, first one, I’m working on a little project ( flash development community website ) and I need a fast registration system ( almost unsecured of course… ) so is there a way to delete the activation system properly or I need to remake partly the library ? ( sorry for my english ) I wanted also to make a fast admin system, I saw that there is a method ( is valid user ) , but how can I custom a view ? ... actually this method can be used in a controller like if valid user “do this” else “do that” but is there a way to act in a view instead of make a custom view for an admin and one other for the basic user… For an exemple, in a view file, is that possible ?

I am sorry it’ll appear easy for you I think, that’s all, thanks in advance !

Hey m0oton,

I’m happy you managed!

Ok, it seems you are speaking about links to edit, delete functions!

Then I suppose you have a controller with a method that displays the article, right?

The most simple way is to put this in your view (you must customize it according to your links)

You could control this also in your controller as follows

You must put an article_admin_menu.php file in your views, and in the view that displays your article write:

m0oton - 22 March 2007 07:08 AM

is there a way to delete the activation system properly or I need to remake partly the library ?

I wanted also to make a fast admin system, I saw that there is a method ( is valid user ) , but how can I custom a view ? ... actually this method can be used in a controller like if valid user “do this” else “do that” but is there a way to act in a view instead of make a custom view for an admin and one other for the basic user… For an exemple, in a view file, is that possible ?

if admin
-> show the article, the delete function, the edit function
else
-> show the article

I am sorry it’ll appear easy for you I think, that’s all, thanks in advance !

About activation, I read this not so long ago, you could try and tell us if it suits your needs.

About the check in the views, you have helper functions (be sure to load them).

danfreak - 07 March 2007 07:59 AM

@alexpetri
Cheers for the contribution! Not essential but usefull!

Just wanted to drop a line to tell that next release will be delayed by 1 week due to a work I have to finish.

Dan

Any update on the next release? Not trying to be pushy, I just don’t want to jump in if the water is cold especially if it will heat back up in a day of two. I hate it when I get my core needlessly shriveled.

Danfreak,

How would I let levels 3 and 4 to access the admin console upon login?

Thanks dan and mind, that was all I just needed =)

codelearn - 22 March 2007 11:40 AM

Danfreak,

How would I let levels 3 and 4 to access the admin console upon login?

Quoting the comment inside the library to the method check()
/**
    * Method used to restrict acess to controllers or methods of controllers to the specified category of users
    * it requires 2 optional parameters
    * The first parameterspecifies the user group i.e. (‘admin’)
    * The second parameter specifies whether the area is reserved ONLY to that group (true) or if it is accessible by groups higher in the hierarchy
    *
    * example usage in a controller
    * /

You can alternatively use the helper belongsToGroup()

**
  * Function used to check if a logged in members belongs to the custom role (group) specified in the first parameter
    * it requires 2 optional parameters
    * The first parameter specifies the user groups as a comma separated string(NB: just comma separated WITHOUT SPACES->‘user,admin’<—RIGHT ‘user, admin’<—WRONG)
    * The second parameter specifies whether we want to check to the specified groups ONLY or for AT LEAST those group membership in the hierarchy
    * (returns true also if the logged user belongs to a group higher in the hierarchy)
    *
    * example usage in a view to echo something depending on it’s role (it can be a menu option for example)
    * /

You must use this methods in:
=> your constructor if you wanna secure the entire controller (no matter the method)
=> in a specific method of your controller if you wanna secure just that

Hope this helps!

MiNdSpaZz - 22 March 2007 10:17 AM

danfreak - 07 March 2007 07:59 AM

@alexpetri
Cheers for the contribution! Not essential but usefull!

Just wanted to drop a line to tell that next release will be delayed by 1 week due to a work I have to finish.

Dan

Any update on the next release? Not trying to be pushy, I just don’t want to jump in if the water is cold especially if it will heat back up in a day of two. I hate it when I get my core needlessly shriveled.

Well I think that 1 or 2 days are not enough unluckily for the next release.

Due to some delays don’t expect it before 7/10 days.

Thanks Dan, figured it out. Had to add a case in the Auth controller.