Hi Ben,

This works absolutely brilliantly. Saw the link on the EE forums. Well done on such a great usable addition for EE!! :-)

Best wishes,

Mark

This is so sweet ! Thanx for sharing it.

This was a lifesaver! Thanks!

Hi, I am trying to use this plugin to fix a problem I'm having with the Expression Engine Simple Commerce Module. It doesn't record a purchase or send the follow up emails if the purchase is not made by a registered member. It looks like this should work, but I have installed it and set it up and I am still having no luck. I didn't know if you could shed some light on this problem.

Thank you for this helpfull plugin. As I understood, when user post them news on SAEF page, him automatically logged as priveleged_guest. And after posting, him also logged as priveleged_guest and hу can post any comments or forum posts as priveleged_guest. How can I automatically unlogin them painless right after posting.
Thank you!

Thanks for this really useful plugin. Lovely site you have here!

Nice job -perfect for my needs- would love to see a logmeout version as well that allows you to secretly log them back out and then redirect them, say, to a thank you page. Using the standard logout function takes them back to the homepage. Thanks!

Yes a logmeout plugin would be very useful. I wonder if it's just a case of editing the logmein code . Or if logmein could have a logout after x hours property.

Ben, many many thanks. Do you have a donate link?

Ben, thanks for the plugin. It works beautifully and allows me to get rid of the hacks to the standalone module I'd done a while back.

I added a check for whether the visitor is in the super admin group, as I was tired of getting logged out when I visited the page myself. You could probably expand this by adding another parameter in which users or groups to ignore could be set, but the following was enough for my needs (I added this after the username parameter check):

  $group_id = $SESS->userdata['group_id'];

  if ($group_id == 1)

  {

    return '';

  }

I'm trying to use this plugin with the Simple Commerce plugin but can't get it to work. I'm thinking that I might have to edit the mod.simple_commerce.php file to send the customer email to the address supplied by PayPal instead of getting it from the EE member database?

Anyone that have gotten LogMeIn with Simple Commerce email templates? Thanks!

We're testing out the plugin and love it but we have this problem where intermittently we get a "You must be a logged-in member of this site in order to perform this action."

I've tried setting the expiration to long periods of time but sometimes it just fails and there's nothing we can do. I've noticed that the groupid sometimes changes between "guests" and the other user logmein specific user group we created (but the group id number always stays the same). This seems to have something to do with it.

OK, I think I solved my problem. I think my cookie based security was creating conflicts between my guest group and my superadmin status.

By using separate browsers, I could always use logmein successfully (so there was no conflict).

But now I have a new problem. Logmein works fine for my main domain, but I have a different domain that points to a specific template group in EE. When I use that URL, I get the "You must be a logged-in member of this site in order to perform this action." But if I change just the domain name, to the main site, it works fine.

Once again this is probably because of the cookie-based security. Is there a way around this?

Just saw this on the EE forums and downloading now - thanks a bunch.

I am getting intermittent failure with this module. I get the error "You must be a logged-in member of this site in order to perform this action."

When it fails, the screen_name and member_id is NOT set, but the group_id is set to 5 (member) instead of 3 (guest) -- so maybe I'm just getting partially logged in?

Any suggestions for how to troubleshoot / resolve this issue?

TTFN
Travis

Gah!

I just can't get this to work.
Well, it works - as the {member_id} variable outputs the correct value, but my SAEF form never gets past the 'must be logged in' error.
I've set my member to guest, and the guest group has weblog posting privs to the right weblog.

Is this fully tested in EE 1.6.3?

....fixed through my own tinkering.

It's security settings in EE. Working on dev.url.com which is different from the defined site domain, causing hiccups in log ins etc.

So, I determined that you need to be careful about the interactions between the logout and the login functions; if both are on a page (which I wouldn't have done, but it was someone else's code) they don't always take effect in the same order, which means you can get screwy results.

TTFN
Travis

First of all, thanks *so* much for this plugin. It's extremely well done and useful.

I'm having a problem with it's use however that isn't directly a fault of the plugin but how I would like to use it.

I'm attempting to put a posting form on my home page. My site allows both 'guests' and members to post. In order to log-in a guest and not mess with users who already have logged in I have this code at the top of my home page template:

{if group_id == '3'}
{exp:logmein:now username="Guest" expire="1000" parse="inward"}
{/if}

In theory, this code should log someone in as a guest only when the are in the usergroup of 3 (guest access) and if someone is already logged in such as a regular member in usergroup 5 then they shouldn't be touched.

Problem is that no matter what I do the plugin is triggered and am ALWAYS logged in as a guest even though I'm already logged in as a different member.

Any clues as to how to fix this?

Thanks,

Peter

To be sure I'd like to add that I used this code as well because it's the more logical choice but it also has the same results, it logs out the existing member and logs in "Guest" regardless of how the statement is constructed or where it goes in the page.

{if logged_out}
{exp:logmein:now username="Guest" expire="1000"}
{/if}

Thanks!

Ben, It worked! thank you. Based on the code above I also modified the plugin with the following code which prevents logout of certain groups that you don't want to log out when they visit a page with the logmeout tag:

$group_id = $SESS->userdata['group_id'];

if ($group_id == '5' OR $group_id == '1' OR $group_id == '4')

return '';

else

if ($group_id == '6')

$group_id = $SESS->userdata['group_id'];

Simply put this code in the logout function after the globals. In this example only member group 6 will be loged out when they visit a page with the logout tag.

Cheers

Ben,

I successfully edited the plugin to not run when a user is already logged in within certain member groups.

Would you consider adding this functionality in so that it could be called from the tag, i.e.,

{exp:logmein bypass_member_group="1,4,6,9"...}

I would do it myself, but I suck at php.

Thanks,

Ben

Hey Ben-
Does this plugin allow you to dynamically create a login? I want any visitor to the site to be able to post via the SAEF, but I would also like that user to be able to get notifications to comments made. So I was thinking that if they were automatically created as a user and made an author then they could get notification on comments.

This would of course require that as part of the SAEF they include their email and maybe just an autogenerated username/password (maybe using a timestamp).

Would this be possible with your plugin, or does it just log anyone in as the same user.

James

hey ben-
how long and how much would it take to get you started? you can email me if you want.

james

Hi ben,
Thanks for this great plugin. I have EE 1.6.4. Somehow the expire doesn't work. Can I check the cookie if it has the right parameters. What name has the cookie? Does EE have any parameters to set login? I have configured EE to use cookies.