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Terry Rozmus
Terry Rozmus

Reputation: 396

Joomla ACL and alternative page content

We have a site where we are intending to sell access to video tutorials. I have set up Joomla ACL to limit access to those pages only to those users who have been given the relevant access permissions and access is being sold through shopping cart called MijoShop.

This setup is working okay at the moment, but there is bit of an issue with user experience. At the moment it seems I can only stop people from viewing a page, but I can't see an easy way to show them alternative content with Joomla ACL. Ideally, if a logged-in user does not have access to a certain video tutorial page, when they click on the link to the page they will instead see a page giving them an opportunity to buy access to the tutorial. This means that I need a method for showing different content on the same page depending on which Joomla user groups a user is assigned to. Is this possible with vanilla Joomla ACL, or am I going to have to find a content management extension that can add the ability to do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 245

Answers (1)

Hanny
Hanny

Reputation: 2159

You should be able to do that with the Vanilla ACL. IIRC you can setup various groups with access to different tutorials/pages/things - then you can make a member a part of multiple groups - thus giving them access to those things as needed.

If unable to do something like that - then I think George Wilsons comment would suffice for a while and you could implement some if/then/else type statements into the code of the article which would work.

Your best bet however is to try the ACL solution first and foremost as that allows you to keep things generally more easy to manage from a backend perspective.

Upvotes: 1

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