Hi David
I was wondering if you could suggest how I may be able to change the role of the review/rating form so that only I (or a colleague) can publish via it.
I was thinking that with the kind of products I'm dealing with, people will be finding my site with a view to buying them and therefore won't be in a position to review them. But it would be useful if I was able to write reviews and post them for selected products.
I guess it would involve hiding the form somehow but making the post function still to the specific page. I hope that's clear.
Thanks
Oliver
p.s. Happy New Year!
Thanks David
Great solution, it works perfectly.
Cheers
Oliver
Hi Oliver,
HNY to you too!
I think the easiest way to do this is to simply hide the form by default and only display it if there is a secret "cookie" present, which you can set with another quick script and only give the URL to your staff.
To hide the form, look in html/ratings.php for the following code....
<form method='post' name='f'>.... rest of review form HTML ....
</form>
...and wrap that section in a little PHP, as follows:
<?php if ($_COOKIE["editor"]): ?><form method='post' name='f'>
.... rest of review form HTML ....
</form>
<?php endif; ?>
This will mean that the form is only displayed if a cookie called "editor" is present. Now, to make a "login" script that will set that cookie, do something like this:
editorLogin.php
<?php$expire = mktime(0,0,0,1,1,2010);
setcookie("editor","1",$expire,"/");
header("Location: /");
?>
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.