Admin Profiles (for v1.3.x only!) Support Thread

[mauryg]

Nadsab,
If you are concerned about the changes in the 1.38a version, then simply upload the files I sent you to the box directory. They are 1.36 Admin Profile files merged with 1.38a ZenCart.

[AndyII]

Can you give an example of a restriction needed for "categories"?

Yes it can be so tweaked. But to make this work would involve lots of restrictions being inserted across the Zen Cart Admin. As a starting point, I would suggest that you would need to make changes to each of the following files:

• admin/attributes_controller.php
• admin/categories
• admin/coupon_admin.php
• admin/coupon_restrict.php
• admin/login.php
• admin/logoff.php
• admin/product.php
• admin/specials.php
• admin/includes/header.php
• admin/includes/modules/category_products.php
• admin/includes/modules/document_general/collect_info.php
• admin/includes/modules/document_product/collect_info.php
• admin/includes/modules/product/collect_info.php
• admin/includes/modules/product_free_shipping/collect_info.php
• admin/includes/modules/product_music/collect_info.php
• admin/includes/init_includes/overrides/init_admin_auth.php
• admin/admin.php

[vitalwares]

Nadsab,
If you are concerned about the changes in the 1.38a version, then simply upload the files I sent you to the box directory. They are 1.36 Admin Profile files merged with 1.38a ZenCart.

Mauryg,

You have helped me and possibly many others having the same problem as nasab, thank you so much.

I do have another question though, is there any way to also turn off the information on the admin home page (the page you land on then you log into admin).

What I really want to achieve is not show any customer or order information to some of my employees, and this info is right there on the admin home page, any way to conceal it ?

[AndyII]

Anyone know what has happened to kuroi ?
I have tried many ways to contact him, seems he has disappeared....

[kuroi]

I want to add the Profiles, however in reading the tuts I need to find out if I am using a prefix in the database.

Looking at the database I have a _zc1 installed and with prefix zen with 95 files. I also have installed zenstore with 190 files with prefix of zen_ and prefix of zenstore.

This does not look right to me and I cannot tell which one is the upgrade and whick one I should delete.

If you go to your site's includes folder and look at the configure.php file there, it will tell you which database and what database prefix you are using (towards the bottom of the file).

[kuroi]

Hi

I've just added the admin profiles module to my site and I'm having a few problems.
It looks to be installed correctly but when I go to the admin tools and click on the permissions icon I'm getting the following 404 error:

The requested URL /store/admin/FILENAME_ADMIN_CONTROL.php was not found on this server.

Anyone have any ideas as to where I've gone wrong with the install?

I'd appreciate any help with this one, it looks like such a good module for a store.

Thanks in advance:

This suggests a problem with your installation Specifically that the packages admin/includes/extra_datafiles/admin_profiles_data.php file is not present, or is in the wrong place. However, if this is the the case, then it's possible that other components are misplaced too. I'd recommend checking all the files against the locations listed in the install.txt file that comes in the package that you downloaded.

[AndyII]

kuroi, so glad to see you here
After several attempts to find someone to assist in witting these restriction for admin profiles, I have come up empty and only found people who are either scamming or really dont know how to do it, so I plead with you to please
give an example of a restriction needed for "categories"?
I would be deeply appreciative

[kuroi]

Can you give an example of a restriction needed for "categories"?

Yes. Though there are usually multiple ways of going about this and what is appropriate would depend upon the specific requirement you were trying to meet.

For example, if you are restricting admin users to a single category, you would need suppress the dropdown menu on the categories page that allows them to navigate to other categories. To do this you would need to find the following code in the category_product_listing module, which generates that dropdown

  if ($_SESSION['display_categories_dropdown'] == 0) {
    echo '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_CATEGORIES, 'set_display_categories_dropdown=1&cID=' . $categories->fields['categories_id'] . '&cPath=' . $cPath . (isset($_GET['page']) ? '&page=' . $_GET['page'] : '')) . '">' . zen_image(DIR_WS_ICONS . 'cross.gif', IMAGE_ICON_STATUS_OFF) . '</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;';
    echo zen_draw_form('goto', FILENAME_CATEGORIES, '', 'get');
    echo zen_hide_session_id();
    echo HEADING_TITLE_GOTO . ' ' . zen_draw_pull_down_menu('cPath', zen_get_category_tree(), $current_category_id, 'onChange="this.form.submit();"');
    echo '</form>';
  } else {
    echo '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_CATEGORIES, 'set_display_categories_dropdown=0&cID=' . $categories->fields['categories_id'] . '&cPath=' . $cPath . (isset($_GET['page']) ? '&page=' . $_GET['page'] : '')) . '">' . zen_image(DIR_WS_ICONS . 'tick.gif', IMAGE_ICON_STATUS_ON) . '</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;';
    echo HEADING_TITLE_GOTO;
  } 

and wrap an if statement around it so that it is only executed if the user is allowed to go to other categories.

If they are allowed access to different categories, but only a limited subset, you would need to change the same bit of code in a different way. In this case you would need to replace the zen_get_categories_tree() function with an alternative that prepared a list of the categories to which the user is to have access.

[kuroi]

is there any way to also turn off the information on the admin home page (the page you land on then you log into admin).

What I really want to achieve is not show any customer or order information to some of my employees, and this info is right there on the admin home page, any way to conceal it ?

There are no switches to turn this off (though they are on the TO DO list for a future version of Admin Profiles.

For the time being you would have to make code changes. These would be done in in the admin/index.php file as follows:

1) Find out what your admin ID is (you can see it to the left of your name on the Admin Settings page

2) Open admin index.php and fin the following lines

<div id="coltwo">
<div class="reportBox"> 

3) Insert the following between them

<?php if ($_SESSION['admin_id'] == <your admin ID>) { ?>

4) Go down 12 lines and insert the following immediately after the </div> line

<?php } ?>

5) Now do the same between the following lines

<div id="colthree">
<div class="reportBox"> 

and after the first </div> line a further 12 lines down.

[kuroi]

Anyone know what has happened to kuroi ?
I have tried many ways to contact him, seems he has disappeared....

Kuroi has been working back-to-back 16 hour days to deliver a complex site in an impossibly short timeframe, and even though that's pretty well done and dusted, is still working crazy hours to catch up on work for other clients that got delayed as a result.