How can I call a different login page from the index.php?main_page=login

[DJHicks]

Okay, so primary thing is, why the manual entry part? Why not just let them enter, but you have to "authorize" them or similar?

Secondly, if you recreate the page so that it is still accessible via the internet under some "obscure" name, you're just asking for trouble/people to still end up on it doing what you were trying to avoid (allowing guest to fill it out.)

So that leads to an option that if you don't want people to be able to fill out the information themselves and you want to spend your time filling it out instead of something else, then I would suggest an admin plugin that allows adding/creating customers.

If you still want to go down the path of some super secret place that only know about that allows you to enter the data to create an account, that upon completion will have all of the access rights that are normally provided to a guest of your site, then I suggest looking into how to implement define pages and of course the other code included in the newly filename scrambled version. Take a look at the requires and includes calls, the referenced file(s) may need to be renamed/copied/relocated/or...

Thank you for your reply.

The site content is not for the public its for a group of us but want a central hub if you like to be able to download things or indeed purchase stuff. This is why i'd like control without the possibility of having to sit and delete false or spam registrations.

Your right in that its still open to abuse...

Would turning off the login on the Store and adding the Add on plugin to create Customers from the Admin work for you?
http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1477

Hello Ajeh... thank you for the link it seems perfect. I did search through the add ons but believe I only came across the one for v1.3 etc as this one references.

This should mean I can keep the login page as it is (edited so no creation) and add users via admin.

Thank you both very much!