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Quick link to a forum [message #17999]

Wed, 28 April 2004 18:48

Gribnif

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Registered: December 2003

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All forums on my system require authentication. So if a user wants to see a forum, they have to log-in, and then choose which forum they want to view. This makes it impossible to provide a single URL that goes directly to the correct forum.

How about a special log-in form, which could be linked to with a URL like this:

http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=jumpto&frm_id=3

When the user clicks on this link, they would be asked to log-in. When they click on the Submit button, they would then be brought directly to forum #3, and not to the top level list of all forums.

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Re: Quick link to a forum [message #18001 is a reply to message #17999]

Wed, 28 April 2004 19:07

Ilia

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Registered: January 2002

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If you provide a URL to a secure forum, the anonymous user will be given an error message indicating that they do not have permissions to access that forum and a login form allowing them to login. Upon successful login, the forum will redirect them to the URL they were trying to access originally.

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Re: Quick link to a forum [message #18004 is a reply to message #17999]

Wed, 28 April 2004 19:43

Gribnif

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I just tried that, and I got the message:

Your user permissions do not allow you to perform the action you are attempting.

When I clicked on the OK button, it returned me to the top level of the forum, showing no categories (because I am Anonymous at that point.)

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