New to elgg and have just a couple questions.

 Thank you to Brett and Steve for helping me solve my registration problems so quickly this morning. I am really looking forward to making elgg work out for me. It has clean code, fast, light, and has great plugins. I have the most recent version loaded up now.

  My knowledge base is limited to unzipping files to the proper folder and copying and pasting code snippets into an editor if explained exactly where it should go to make it work correctly.

 I am putting together yet another political discussion and debate forum. The difference from most is it will be wide open uncensored debate. So for this reason I am trying to figure out how to create a static front page that has a legal disclaimer and an agreement checkbox in order for the public to continue on to the homepage.

 Next, I should also have a legal disclaimer and agreement checkbox in the registration form page that will "get along" with any other captcha plugins already loaded.

 It is on me to write the disclaimers If someone could point me to the plugins and/or tools and/or code snippets in elgg needed to create these pages I need. The legal disclaimer in the registration page might be a plugin project that many here could use if there is not one already.

I really should have these issues resolved before throwing it into my domain root and inviting traffic. Because of my limited knowledge any time and help I could get on these issues would be absolutely fantastic!

Thank you all for alowing me to be part of the elgg community!

 

 

  • Update: For those interested I was able to cure my registration page issue by loading the "Accept terms 1.0" plugin by imoni found here:

    http://community.elgg.org/plugins/811359/1.1/accept-terms-for-18

    I then changed the language file in en.php to read " I am at least 18yrs of age and have read the site "TERMS" and I accept them without prejudice ". Everything is working correctly so far on version 1.8.16-2013051700.

    Now I am still searching for a static cover/entry page that has a editable form and checkbox to gain access to the index page content view from the public side.

    I found one, but it directed me to an actual porn site with no download, lol. Any help on this would be much appreciated!

  • I'm not exaxtly understanding what exactly you mean by the static page + checkbox that gains access to the index page. The "landing page" / login page you see when logged out is actually already the index page. Only the content of the page might be different. I don't know how you would be able to insert yet another page that the logged out visitors will see before they are redirected to the actual login page (=index page). The problem is that if your site is not a walled-garden site, i.e. there is content publically available nothing could stop your visitors from simply calling directly the index page once they know the url.

    Still, you could configure your index page (and and content only displayed when logged out) by using the Widget Manager plugin (http://community.elgg.org/plugins/384604/4.7/widget-manager). In addition to that you could also use the Homepage CMS plugin (http://community.elgg.org/plugins/968182/1.2/homepage-cms). You could add some FreeHTML widget to your index page visible to logged-out visitors where you could add the content you want to show up on the "static page".

  •   Thank you so much for the reply iionly! I guess what I am trying to do is hook a "cover" page somehow to elgg similar to what some porn sites have. The public does not have to register or be logged in to view the content on the site, but they do land on a simple page that has a disclaimer and makes them agree that they are at least 18 before "entering". After checking the agreement box, it continues to the index and gives them open access to freely read the content on the site.

    I did find an elgg plugin that claims to do this, but the link was not to an elgg plugin download, it went to an actual porn site. I will go check out the plugins you suggest and try to make them work for me. My problem is that I want to put elgg in my root rather than an extension subfolder, or I could just put the "entry" page index in my root and then redirect it to the index of elgg in the subfolder. So to put it in my root with elgg it has to be part of elgg as the cover/entry page.

    Thank you so much for your help and reply! If you come across anything else in here that would help me make this happen it would be very much appreciated! A feature like this might be popular with other elgg users too. I will update this thread if I find a cure, thanks again for your time!

  • I just realized a large interactive pop up on the index page would work, but I'm not sure how to do this with elgg tools and features? Off to check for this approach.

  • Maybe a new plugin that just got released will be what you are lookin for: http://community.elgg.org/plugins/1560111/1.0/jb-overlay

  • Hi John,

    I have a once-per-session page overlay that I made for one of my projects.  I've separated it from the project and made it into a plugin:   http://community.elgg.org/plugins/1560111/1.0/jb-overlay

    Is this the kind of thing you are looking for?

  • Absolutely! just amazing how only 4.09 k can turn out to be quite a bit of work. I read the coding you did to put this together. I spent the last couple days loading up 10 sticky notes full of javascript confirm box snippets trying to piece one of these together correctly for "once per session". Absolutely fantastic! this is exactly what I needed juBo!

     Unfortunate that we have to live in a world of legal contracts just to protect ourselves from liabilities because someone might be offended by free speech. Thank you so much for putting this together for me my friend, it will be the most important feature I have on my site. I see it has been downloaded 19 times already so it might indeed turn out to be a popular plugin! I uploaded it and am trying it out now, thanks again and let me know if I can do something in return!

      J.R.