Customer profiles

Hi,
I have several questions regarding customer profiles.

1. When a new customer creates an account, can this be directly controled by the administrator?

What do i mean?
Basically i would like the administrator to verify and accept the new customer, he would recieve an email with the new account details, check everything and return an email to the new customer with the login and password details + a link to validate the inscription.

I've noticed that today when a new customer account is created he/she can have access straight away, i only want to give access when the inscription has been validated by the administrator, as explained above.
Is this possible?

2. Is is possible to give Front-end profiles to different customers that have accounts ?
   I would like the administrator to be able to give customers a limited access (once they have logged in) to 1 or 2 categories for example?

Basically it's the same idea as the module 'admin_profiles_v1_0_6' that i've recently installed for my backend, but i need the same idea for my front-end?

Reagrds

Baz

Hi,
Concerning my first question i found how to do it.

For my second maybe it's a crazy question, but does anyone know if it's possible or not?

cheers

baz°

Zen Cart is open source, so you can customize it to do virtually anything, including this.

But that said, this would require a lot of custom programming. The Admin Profiles approach wouldn't work as that relies on specific features of the way that Admin pages are built. The Catalog is built differently.

Basically you would need to build a new Admin subsystem to control which categories each user can access, insert new code in the main_page top force users to login before products are displayed, insert new code into the init_auth routines to filter out attempts to go to unauthorized categories directly, tweak the categories sidebox module to only allow the users authorized categories and then adjust the database accesses for all listing pages to filter against the restricted categories list. There's probably more that I haven't thought of yet. I'd rate this as requiring advanced Zen Cart knowledge, and intermediate PHP and SQL skills.