I am using the hook user_login to trap login events for each editor. Should this be a PRE hook or a POST hook?? Still a little confused on PRE and POST. Thanks



Edit: Is there a hook I can use to trap events inside browser.cgi, such as each time an editor logs in, or clicks on a particular function (move, validate etc).... I though of using javascript... but was hoping there would be a way to HOOK-IN

So far I have found hooks: modify_category, modify_link, validate_link and user_loging. Am I on the right track here? Are there other hooks I am missing for trapping editor activity?


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There is a good, and maybe there is a bad news.

The browser.cgi dispatches the "handle_editor" hook.
This could be used to trap & handle any editor related event.
This is the good news.

The bad is, that unfortunately it seems the handle_editor hook is missing from the hooks.cfg.
I don't really know, if it does affect the plugin hook handling or not, but I've a bad feeling, that it affects...

I suggest you to try to use the handle_editor hook, if it works.
Then we will see what's next.

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Thanks webmaster!

I wonder why it is missing? Alex???


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It doesn't really matter if a hook is not listed in hooks.cfg or not.

hooks.cfg is autogenerated if you set $PROFILE = 1 in the Plugins.pm file. It will record all hooks a program comes across during execution.

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It is a good news!

So hooks.cfg is just for profiling?

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So this means I should be able to use handle_editor PRE hook somehow, and trap their movements.


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What is the difference between handle_login and user_login hooks?

I am thinking this will work for tracking editor logins: Just not sure if this should be a PRE or POST. If I set to post then, I guess this will only run the sub if the user has successfully logged in? hmmmm



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Depends what do you want to do with tracking editor logins?
What do you exactly mean?

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For this part, just each time they log into links, just as any user would. I am just treating this as basic as I can to start off with.

Ultimately I want to track the visits to the editor browser area and the functions within it (modify, validate etc).


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First thing I would do, to display all available variables, tags on a page, with <%GT::Template::dump%>. So do it. Then you can see what variables you can work with.

Also your start point should be the Links::User::Editor::handle point. This is where the handle_editors hook starts. Follow the code and check what is doing at some points. You have to understand the code, before you know how to modify it.
Also check the Docs, especially the developer docs, where you may get some help.

It is also possible, that you create a global, what you call on each editor template, using <%myglobal%>, and you do the tracking inside the global. You may have all the info you will need to track.

If you can get the parameters, like who is the current editor, what is the page you browse, then you will be able to track the editors.
Currently I have not enough info, to tell you what to do.

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handle_login is executed in user.cgi, before calling Links::User::Login::handle. Just before anything happening. So using handle you can even replace or modify all, the login, signup, user validate, etc. functions.

user_login is executed within Links::User::Login::handle, then login_user function is called. You can even replace, modify just this function, using this hook.

But you can also find these info by doing a text search in lsql/admin directory...

handle_login:
'input_params' => [],
'output_params' => [
'SCALAR'
],

user_login hook can have 3 input parameters:
username, password, template page name without .html to display on login success (default is login_success)
No output param.

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Webmaster!! Great pointers.. thank you very much!

I agree with you, I need to scan through the cgi file to see what the hook function actually does... if I can understand it

Sorry for the Perl ignorance again, but does this code read in the paramaters from the function the hook is attached to? If so, I just reference these params with something=>something. I am not being lazy here, I am going to look for examples on what this means...

'input_params' => [],
'output_params' => [
'SCALAR'
],

Thanks again.


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Khm... Sorry.

I just copied it out the mentioned code from the hooks.cfg.
Nothing special, just to show that there no input is required, and the output is returned in Scalar.

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Ahhh, I understand.

I have added $USER to use Links qw/$CFG $IN $DB $USER/; as I am sure I will need this in my plugin module now.

I will post back, when I get a little further.

Thanks.


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If you add $USER you'll also need:

init_user();

Yes, thanks Paul...

And do I just put that inside each sub before I want to read in the value for the user, or would an instance at the top of the module suffice?


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It should go in the cgi script.