Multiple users and their settings

neville

I am writing an application which has an admin side and a user side (the pages that are seen by visitors to our site). This program runs from my companies server for all those customers whose have purchased this application. There are many such customers and the same application at present looks different for each of them

Here is my problem:

The admin side is password protected and accesible to only the owners of the program and the user side can be either open to all visitors or only those who have registered with our customers. This registration is for a very good reason offline, but thats not my problem. I have to give the admin the facility to make the user side locked to registered users only and if he wants change it he should be able to keep it open again so that all users can use it without logging in.

Since there are many customers running the same application, I want to know what would be the best way to go about doing this ?

Thanks for any ideas.

terje-s

I honestly do not think I understand the problem at all. But, since I'm waiting for an attack to finish in Planetarion, I might as well attempt to understand and answer ;-)

The first thing confusing me, is the usage of the word 'admin'. Do you always refer to someone in your company when using 'admin', or does this include your customers? E.g. are your customers supposed to be able to do this, or are you talking about the site-wide administrator (you)?

Scenario one; The site-wide admin.
If you want to do this, it would be a very simple form, containing a selectbox or checkbox with 'publically viewable' or similar text. A submit button would trigger off a small script changing the status of those specific pages.

Scenario two; The 'sub-admin'
If your customers want to do this, I can't see that it would be any different from the above,. Except for the fact that this person should only be able to do it to their page(s)?

I quote;

This registration is for a very good reason offline, but thats not my problem.

What registration?

I assume that this application is somewhat personalized for every single customer (you implied that). If this is the case, it shouldnt be hard to make such a small script, nomatter who is supposed to run it.

But, I probably have no clue what you're talking about.. 😐 Try to give me a somewhat more specific description of who is supposed to do what, and a little bit on how your application is built, and I'll give it another try 🙂

neville

Hi,

Its like this:

The application I am wrting is to allow the general public to fix an appointment with medical practitioners who belong to a particular Medical association or Hospital.

The Hospital is our customer who has purchased the Appointments program from us.
The visitor who comes to our site gets a list of all our customers who have registered with us, he then selects "hospital A" who is one of our customers and on doing that he gets a list of the various departments under that hospital, each dept has its own list of doctors. When a doctor is selected then the entire schedule of that doctor is displayed. when the user clicks a time slot he should be presented a page to fill in his details and confirm it.

Now the problem is that some hospitals don' t want to allow just anyone to confirm the appointment while others do. These hospitals want that each time a visitor comes to the site and reaches the fix appointment part he should be asked to login and then continue. These hospitals will give these logins to these vistors offline. Later if this hospital so decieds then it should be able to turn off this login feature and turn it back again when it deciedes to

How do I make the same application run with a login for one hospital's vistors and without for anothers. ?

The Admin is the one who adds/deletes departments, users,. the Manager is one who calls the person requesting an Appointment and confirms with him.

I hope I told you everything,

Thanks for any help,

Neville.

terje-s

Well, for each hospital you should have a field in your database called 'public', type char(1) or int or enum or whatever you feel like. When displaying info about this hospital, check this field, if the page is public, show it.. If its not, check if the user is logged in.. If (s)he's not, show login form.. otherwise, continue.. ?