Major Feature #2459
Allow anonymous (or not logged) users write topics or posts
| Status: | Rejected | Start: | 2009-01-14 | |
| Priority: | Won't have this time | Due date: | ||
| Assigned to: | - | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | User Profile | |||
| Target version: | - | |||
Description
I've read in the extension manual [1] the next phrase:
On the other hand, of to groups are specified in the Write-field, then only visitors that are logged in are allowed to write something; the visitors that are not logged in are not allowed to write contributions in any case.
So it seems that it's not possible that not logged users could write topic or posts with this extension.
I think that this could be a very interesting feature, because of if you have a website without users, just with anonymous users, and you would like to have a forum, you couldn't use mm_forum because of it'd require that users have to sing up on the website before to write any contribution.
After a little search in the source code of the extension, I think that a possible implementation could be add 2 new fields to the database table tx_mmforum_posts, these fields could be poster_name and poster_id.
Then if you have not set any group as Write access for a forum, then if it's a not logged user these 2 new fields appear in the form (both required) otherwise the extension would work as usual.
I'm not sure if it has more collateral effects in the rest of the extension and how many work is needed to develop it. Maybe I could develop it, even being a newbie in this extension, if you think that is feasible.
Do you think that this is an interesting feature?
Is it possible to implement this feature without a huge impact in the rest of the extension?
Could be interesting develop an independent extension to add this feature or it should be directly integrated with mm_forum?
[1] http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/extension-manuals/mm_forum/0.1.7/view/1/4/#id4000318
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2009-04-04 00:04 - Ines Willenbrock
- Priority changed from Should have to Won't have this time
I'm not sure, if it's not better, to use an other extension for this use-case, something like comments[1] might fit your needs better.
As it's not my job to say "no" to this request, I'm downgrading it's priority because I believe that it's unlikely, that it might be implemented soon as there are bugs with a higher importance than this request.
http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/comments/current/Regards, Ines
2009-04-04 14:35 - Martin Helmich
- Status changed from New to Rejected
I agree with Ines. The many collateral effects of this change would cause an unacceptable high workload. Using an independent extension for this would most certainly be better.
2009-04-06 08:46 - Manuel Rego Casasnovas
Maybe you're right that this change has a lot of collateral effects.
However, I think that it's a feature that you should take into account for the future of the extension. Because for websites without registered users that want to have a forum system you're extension is not valid.
Regards,
Rego
2009-04-06 18:17 - Hauke Hain
Manuel Rego Casasnovas wrote:
Maybe you're right that this change has a lot of collateral effects.
However, I think that it's a feature that you should take into account for the future of the extension. Because for websites without registered users that want to have a forum system you're extension is not valid.
Regards, Rego
I totally agree with you.
But the option is more interesting for a total right system like in TYPO3. You should set right to different user groups (and unregistered + captcha) for creating new topics and reply to topics.
For a forum it can be a very interesting feature to let in some forums people only reply to existing topics, for example in forums like announcements.
You should think about a more flexible forum. It is not nice to have a tons of extensions for everything instead of one forum which can provide it all.