[development] temporary access module

[Alan Dixon]

ah, no that'd be http://drupal.org/project/peek/

not a good start ...

On 3/22/07, Alan Dixon <alan.g.dixon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks to all your replies to this, as well as my other one about
> node_access. This module is now my first drupal contrib module, at
> http://drupal.org/modules/peek/.
>
>  - Alan
>
> On 2/16/07, Alan Dixon <alan.g.dixon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi drupalites:
> >
> > I've been working on a little module i'm calling 'peek' and just
> > wanted to check in on duplication of efforts, existing wisdom, etc.
> >
> > The client wants to be able to create a page, and then fire off a
> > bunch of emails to people who may or may not have accounts, allowing
> > them to access the page temporarily.
> >
> > So an administrator needs to be able to generate a semi-secret url
> > (like the ones generated by the user module) that would give someone
> > temporary access to a single node page.
> >
> > After struggling with the node_access stuff for a while, i realised
> > that i probably want to sidestep the usual permissions by providing
> > access to the node page via a callback anyway.
> >
> > So the url i'm generating looks like '/peek/<uid>/<timestamp>/<hd5 hash>'
> > and my peek table keeps track of things like the corresponding nid,
> > when it was generated, how long it's valid for, when it was first
> > accessed, and how long it remains valid after first access. I've also
> > got a helper function to generate new users for email address that
> > don't already have a user. When the link is generated, the user gets
> > authenticated to this uid. That way all subsequent activity is
> > connected to their userid for tracking purposes.
> >
> > Thoughts anyone?
> >
> > --
> > Alan Dixon, Web Developer
> > http://alan.g.dixon.googlepages.com/
> >
>
>
> --
> Alan Dixon, Web Developer
> http://alan.g.dixon.googlepages.com/
>


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