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.

any way to login , discreetly? like getting rid of the popups that show it being logged in... thx

Nice plugin Ben, but having trouble getting it to work. I'm running EE 1.6.7. Got a SAEF coded like this...

{exp:logmein:now username="guest_user"}
{exp:weblog:entry_form weblog="directory" return="advertise/thanks" preview="advertise/place_an_ad"}
...form stuff here
{/exp:weblog:entry_form}
{/exp:logmein:now}

Double-checked my user and member group privileges and all is well. Doesn't even work with a super admin username. Am I missing something?

Doh! Sorry, didn't realize. All is well now, thanks.

This is great! I do have one question though. On my blog entry page I need to have the {exp:logmein:logout} run before the comment entry form.

Any ideas? My forms come up with the LogMeIn user, which it should, but I don't want visitors to have to remove the fields.

I removed the value from the fields but I am still trying to find a way to remove the fields with the plugin.

BTW, the links to other people's websites are showing up as "http://www.putyourlightson.net/projects/www.invokedprojects.com" I'm guessing something to do with http:// ?

This plugin rocks. Thanks.

I just thought I'd share an experience with the SAEF that may help someone else.

I put logmein in my header template, but even after doing that, a SAEF in another template never worked right. You would have to refresh the SAEF to see the form. I think the SAEF was being rendered prior to the embedded template containing the logmein. Moving logmein into the same template as the SAEF fixed it.

Justin

Does anyone know how to make it so I don't have to approve each entry made under the SAEF? I want the entries to post right away...GREAT PLUGIN BTW!!

Howdy-

We're having an intermittent issue with the plugin. It needs some code samples to explain, so I put it in the forums: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/111158/. If you have any ideas for us, we welcome 'em!

Thanks!

I'm trying to use this GREAT plugin with a session variable and it's not working - specifically:

When I have this in my template it works:
{exp:logmein:now username="test@test.com"}

When I have this in my template it doesn't log me in:
{exp:logmein:now username="{exp:session_variables:get name="eml_address"}" parse="inward"}

I know the session variable "eml_address" is set to "test@test.com" as I can output it in the template?!

Thoughts?
Thanks!
JM

Thanks Ben. I'm relatively new to EE/PHP and this has been one of the hardest things for me to get my head around. EE/PHP seems to be SEVERELY LACKING in how it handles simple variables?! I mean, I've got a plug-in that is setting a good-old nothing fancy session variable. And I want to use that variable in an EE template. It's like pulling teeth!?

Is there anyway to pass any sort of variable (session or not) to this "logmein" plugin??

Thanks,
JM

Thanks so much for the plugin!

I have one issue - I have a {exp:logmein:logout} on the member register page to get rid of any "priveleged guest" login, but it parses after the captcha is loaded. SInce I have captchas not be required for logged in members, and required for member signup, the captcha doesn't show up since it still sees a member logged in. Is there any way to get the logout to parse before the captcha?

I put it at the very beginning of the template before the form, and no difference...

I figured out a solution, in case anyone else encounters this problem.
I made all the links to the register page to logout and redirect using the Logout Redirect plugin. Problem solved!

After reading through several of the comments on this plug-in... it seems that the plug-in should be wrapped in a big IF statement. IF a user is already logged in... then treat them as they would normally be treated... but if a user is not logged in... then temporarily log them in as a member of whatever group is necessary. On the log-out page... it should probably only log out the members who are NOT part of the temporary group.

Correction to my above post. Argh!

The log-out page should only log out members who ARE part of the temporary group.

Sorry about that.

Thanks so much! I have your plug in working fine, but want to share one issue I see.

When I include the param if_member_group="6", then it does not work, but when I leave it out, it does. Not sure why -- the group id is correct, and is the group my user account is assigned to.

If you'd like to debug, I'm happy to assist.

Thanks, again!

Hi Ben, fantastic plugin - I've almost got it working really nicely but I have an issue which I can't track down... Not sure whether it's related to your plugin or whether it's caused by FieldFrame or nGen File, but maybe you might have an idea? I've posted it here:
http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/110252/P252/

J

I'm working on a new website for my organization. A requirement was that it authenticate users against our existing database. We hired a programmer to help link up the database with ExpressionEngine, and he made use of LogMeIn. It works pretty well -- to some degree. Users can log in and view members-only content and leave comments. However, we haven't been able to figure out how to allow them access to the forums (which are restricted to logged in members only). Any ideas?

I am trying to use logmein with SAEF but keep getting the "you must be logged in to submit" error message.
If I parse out the {group_id} info - I see group 60, the member group my logmein user is part of. But looking at {group_name} it always shows "guests". {Group_name} should be the group name for {group_id} correct?

Has anyone had any issues with using logmein with EE 1.6.8? We had a custom system created to authenticate our organization members off our existing database that used logmein, and since I updated the site to 1.6.8, the login feature hasn't worked. I'm trying to narrow down what might be the problem, and at the moment, I can't seem to get the logmein plugin to work at all.

Wow that's interesting, it will help in making work more efficient I believe.Thanks for the mention, This shoes that you put a great deal of care to your work.

This looks cool (we built something similar to log someone in simultaneously with a comment).

I also used Freeform on a client's site once due to the same issue this plugin solves. If you don't need the data to populate a weblog entry then it works great, otherwise here we are, back to LogMeIn. :)

Quick question. Will this work with just the core version of EE. I am wanting to use it on a non-profit site but wanted to see if it was possible.

yes, any version (1.5, 1.6 etc), but core does not contain the membership module, so probably not core. ??

and also, I have lots of trouble with the "you must be logged in" error. Is there some particular security setting in EE that must be used,
session or cookie or both?

Very nice.

Hi and thanks for this amazing plug in !

I'm kind of having a problem here : when i want to register has a new member ee tells me that I'm already logged in and won't load the register form.

the logmein tag is on the index and the register form is loaded with ajax when you click on "become a member"

any ideas ?

Thanks a lot
Will

great plugin!! thax

The plugin is not working with 1.6.8.

The user shows up as logged in when printing out {username} or {member_id} but the SAEF never shows.

The SAEF does show when I log into the CP as the user.

Seems like the problem is specific to incomplete cookies set by this plugin.

In 1.6.8....

With the Logmein tag in the header, I get the correct member id (2) when I print out the {member_id} tag but the SAEF does not show.

When I use PHP to print the member_id, I get the incorrect member id (0).

Here is my PHP
global $SESS;
echo $SESS->userdata['member_id'];

----

Why aren't these matching? Obviously the member_id printed using PHP is the correct one because the SAEF isn't showing.

Hi Ben,

I didn't want to log out members and to login them as fake ones, so
I've added the following code at the top of now():

if ($TMPL->fetch_param('do_not_logout')) {
if ($SESS->userdata['username'] != '') return;
}

It would be nice to get it inside your official release.

now it seems to be very easy for anyone to use a plugin and know more about it.

now it seems to be very easy for anyone to use a plugin and know more about it.