Allow registered users to submit news

[hicksticks2001]

Is there a way to limit the authority of editors, so that they can only edit the articles within a certain section or category?

-Aaron

[glassparman]

Originally Posted by hicksticks2001

Is there a way to limit the authority of editors, so that they can only edit the articles within a certain section or category?

-Aaron

Aaron, there is a hack (JsectionAuth) that should do this but I have yet to get it to work. You install group access and then the jsectionauth hack and the authors will get a new menu that you configure that gives them access to only the sections you specify.

I have tried to install it and get it to work several times with 4.5.3 but I have yet to get those members to see the new menu.

Hopefully someone will reply that has worked through this.

glassparman

[darkpollo]

Originally Posted by webgirl

instead of adding a hack to allow registered users to publish.. how would one add a hack to automatically set all new registered users to say "publisher" or "author".. whatever the default allowable group is for adding content
???
my concern is this...
i would like to allow anyone who registers, to submit their own content. however, if i find their content is not allowable.. rather than completely deleting them -- removing their account (which would be the case if registered users, as only registered users, were the default allowable group)

i dont want to have to go in an set each registered user to publisher... i'd like it to be automatic at registration.. if the situation arises.. i could go in and "demote" the user to register.. thus preventing them from being allowed to publish.


help?

thanks!

Hi, im testing with this solution and it doesnt seem to work.
I have tried with Author and Editor, and nothing happens.
Do i need to modify anything more?

[darkpollo]

Originally Posted by mistamaila

i ended up just hacking to where new users are authors, and that seems to work.

How did you manage to make that work?

[Tribal]

I found the following solution to work for me, on the latest release of mambo. This allows registered users to submit news. Open up the gacl.class.php file and follow these steps...

Find:

PHP Code:

$this->_mos_add_acl( 'action', 'publish', 'users', 'super administrator', 'content', 'all' );

        $this->acl_count = count( $this->acl ); 


Add After:

PHP Code:

// Registered user submit article hack

$this->_mos_add_acl( 'action', 'add', 'users', 'registered', 'content', 'all' );
$this->_mos_add_acl( 'action', 'edit', 'users', 'registered', 'content', 'own' );
$this->_mos_add_acl( 'action', 'publish', 'users', 'registered', 'content', 'own' ); 


I hope this helps some people.

[darkpollo]

Thanks, but with that code the registered user can submit and also can publish themselves?

I dont want that they can publish, only to submit news.

Thanks again.

EDITED:

Now i have change the code to set all the new users as Author. It is easier and if i dont want an user to submit i only have to change it into registered again

Thanks anyway.

[donlucifer]

Originally Posted by chemoul

For everyone who wants to allow all registered users to submit content, but not to edit their own content, I have the following solution if you do not want to implement MamboResource's solution.
If you do want to use MamboResource's hack, keep on reading as one further change needs to be made in addition to his script changes for it to work.
Note that this requires hacking the user permissions and the actual content module, therefore all modifications are at your own risk.

just wanna say.. thanx... it worked great with me

[Jelmertjee]

thanks for the solutions, tribal's adjustment to gacl.class.php worked for me!

[drysen]

i saw here, it's only allowing registered user to submit news, but no one concern about image uploading in fornt-end (user editor)...

as i know, news usually have an image...

i need this stuff and i can not find any solution for about 3 days working and searching

please

[hfhs72]

Have you tried SimpleNews? It allows anyone to make news articles however the admin has to publish them before they can been seen.

http://mamboxchange.com/projects/simplenews/