[drupal-docs] Display different information toanonymous users/authenticated users within a page

[Ron Mahon]

That was sort of my first thought. Not great but much better that what we
have. if you think of more than two roles or languages ... 

I just feel that there is a easy way to do it and enable other future needs.
I don't know enough about PDF or the drupal structure to do it.
Ron


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-----Original Message-----
From: Kobus Myburgh [mailto:ITBJDM at puknet.puk.ac.za] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 8:47 AM
To: drupal-docs at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [drupal-docs] Display different information toanonymous
users/authenticated users within a page

Hi,

I was thinking of maybe writing a filter module where you can put all the
information in one node, with a markup tag to separate content. For example:

[[authenticated user]] blah blah [[/authenticated user]] blah blah.

For authenticated users, it will display "Blah blah blah blah" while for
everyone else, it will display "blah blah".

I don't know how CPU intensive that may be, or whether there are better
methods, but comments are welcome.

Regards,

Kobus


>>> ron at inmrc.com 5/24/2005 2:38 PM >>>
 

It seems to me that this capability would be usefully if it called up a
different node depending on who was logged in. IHO will become an issues in
the next phase of the product. 

 

Example: 

Many of the document topics would be the same for end Users or
Administrators. The text or content would be completely different.

 

I had thought of placing a tag in the file as a start and end of a section.
(Not CPU efficient)

 

Thought of automatically applied alias to select a different nodes depend on
login role.

 

Advantages: 

No change to current DB structure.

Not limited to two roles

Transparent to none users.

All data is where it belongs in the database. Maintained the same as any
other data.

Maybe the same technique could be used to make it bilingual. 

 

If some times is helpful to review future needs even if it seams they are
very remote. Often times a small change now can accommodate the future. This
and content sensitive help linked to F1. may both fall in that category.  

Is there a future wish list for drupal?

 

Ron
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