Denying a few users access
Posted: 31 Jan 2011, 06:23
I would like to deny a few users access to a Category or all Categories. I'm guessing this isn't a feature many people need so maybe someone could just point me in the right direction to adding a line or two of code to get what I need.
I'm running Joomla 1.5.15 and Phoca Download 1.3.7.
As I understand it I can allow access to specific users while excluding the unwanted users by editing the Category and selecting Access Level: Registered then selecting individual users under Access Rights. This is great if you want to allow a few users but not so good if you want to deny a few users access.
What is the best solution in a situation like mine where I have 11 phocadownload Categories, 50+ users and I only need to deny 1-3 Registered users from being able to download? If I use the above mentioned solution then I would have to edit every Category when I add a new Joomla user so that the new user has access. I wish there was simple way to add a line of code to deny a list of users access to a category or even all of them.
I'm running Joomla 1.5.15 and Phoca Download 1.3.7.
As I understand it I can allow access to specific users while excluding the unwanted users by editing the Category and selecting Access Level: Registered then selecting individual users under Access Rights. This is great if you want to allow a few users but not so good if you want to deny a few users access.
What is the best solution in a situation like mine where I have 11 phocadownload Categories, 50+ users and I only need to deny 1-3 Registered users from being able to download? If I use the above mentioned solution then I would have to edit every Category when I add a new Joomla user so that the new user has access. I wish there was simple way to add a line of code to deny a list of users access to a category or even all of them.
