Just seeking a bit of guidence / thought on the issue of treating the public and webmasters differently in terms of what they see on my directory.
My rough logic is that a links directory has two main user groups.
1 - webmasters who submit their links
2 - the public
It might make sense to show to them different stuff.
eg webmasters might get different advertising that plugs products a webmaster might find of interest. eg where to to buy a great links script Or there might be adverts suggesting they pay for sponsored listing etc.
The public ..best served adverts for the niche of the directory
My initial thinking was that a new member group might be the base of accomplishing this. Advert blocks in templates might then be edited to include some conditional display based on member group.
Members group..well that I guess would include the public ie any normal registration on the site to make use of typical facilities such as commenting, link lists etc.
Would also be good to easily separate the different types for email promotions.
The new group might be "webmaster" A semi logical trigger for switch to said group might be having an approved listing in the directory.
Is there any built in way to achieve such group changing? Might be a case of me custom writing a little script to be cronned that would change membergroup on members where they have a valid link approved. ( slight downside to that might be time delay. ) Guess the hack might alternately run after the link is approved.
Using the member rank settings in the admin panel might be a possible route?
Fill that in as such : Give the Title webmaster to members with 1 to 1000 links
I am unclear however if link as referenced above implies approved live link or just a link submitted.
Thoughts and ideas welcome on the best route to head down.
Ranks aren't usergroups so they don't help, and the only automatic usergroup promotion option currently is based on the number of comments not links. You don't actually need separate usergroups though, you can use template conditionals to check whether they own any listings in the directory and show different content based on that in all the different places:
<IF {THISMEMBERSUBMISSIONS} is greater than 0> here's some html for webmasters <OTHERWISE> here's some html for the public </IF>
The "send emails" page has an option to send emails to people where the links field value is greater or less than a number.
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Hi Guys
Just seeking a bit of guidence / thought on the issue of treating the public and webmasters differently in terms of what they see on my directory.
My rough logic is that a links directory has two main user groups.
1 - webmasters who submit their links
2 - the public
It might make sense to show to them different stuff.
eg webmasters might get different advertising that plugs products a webmaster might find of interest. eg where to to buy a great links script
Or there might be adverts suggesting they pay for sponsored listing etc.
The public ..best served adverts for the niche of the directory
My initial thinking was that a new member group might be the base of accomplishing this.
Advert blocks in templates might then be edited to include some conditional display based on member group.
Members group..well that I guess would include the public
ie any normal registration on the site to make use of typical facilities such as commenting, link lists etc.
Would also be good to easily separate the different types for email promotions.
The new group might be "webmaster"
A semi logical trigger for switch to said group might be having an approved listing in the directory.
Is there any built in way to achieve such group changing?
Might be a case of me custom writing a little script to be cronned that would change membergroup on members where they have a valid link approved.
( slight downside to that might be time delay. )
Guess the hack might alternately run after the link is approved.
Using the member rank settings in the admin panel might be a possible route?
Fill that in as such :
Give the Title webmaster to members with 1 to 1000 links
I am unclear however if link as referenced above implies approved live link or just a link submitted.
Thoughts and ideas welcome on the best route to head down.
Cheers
Mick
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Ranks aren't usergroups so they don't help, and the only automatic usergroup promotion option currently is based on the number of comments not links. You don't actually need separate usergroups though, you can use template conditionals to check whether they own any listings in the directory and show different content based on that in all the different places:
<IF {THISMEMBERSUBMISSIONS} is greater than 0>
here's some html for webmasters
<OTHERWISE>
here's some html for the public
</IF>
The "send emails" page has an option to send emails to people where the links field value is greater or less than a number.
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Joined: May 05, 2004
Total Topics: 5
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Cheers Paul
Seems you have alrerady thought of almost everything
Cheers
Mick