I want anon users to be able to submit content without "access content" permission
hypothesis - October 17, 2009 - 15:49
I have this problem:
Content on my site is only available as a view which shows a very specific subset of information from my nodes.
I don't want users of the site to be able to see content in any other way. There are no accounts, just my admin and anonymous.
But:
I want anonymous people to be able to submit content and after I review it, it gets added to the site.
If I set the permissions to "create xxx content" it does not work unless "access content" is also checked. Any access to content other than my view should not be allowed. I want a secure solution.
I have looked at countless "permission" modules but found none that perform this function.
One for the wish list:
Ideally it would be nice if the anonymous user could re-edit their own content if they have something new to add/change. I could do this possible with the login by IP address module.
alternate submit module
is there another module that allows a different way to submit nodes other than the standard way?
I tried editview
I tried the editview module but alas it relies on that specific permission as well to be able to add new nodes.
I just cannot find any other module that allows such fine grain permissions to allow to create but not access content.
This must be either very
This must be either very simple and I am really missing something, or far too difficult and noone seems to know the answer.
Either way it is imperative that I get this working on my site ASAP. I just want to stop short of having to create an entire module for this.
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Maybe the http://drupal.org/project/editablefields module?
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I am using editable fields
I am using editable fields actually, but the I cannot use it to edit the Title and body firled of the node, only my CCK fields, and also I don't know how this could be implemented for new content.
It seems Drupal runs a permissions check before it allow any sort of adding content form, no matter how I present it.
This is getting really frustrating...
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Prior to d7 title and body are not 'fields' in the cck sense so they don't follow the cck conventions.
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External form
The best possible solution would be to have some sort of "alternate" external form that could be used outside the context of the standard content creation schema.
Like a form that just feeds data into the database as if it were the original creation form, but with it's own customizable settings.
Before anyone suggests Panels, I have tried it with the same result.
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Panels just uses the standard drupal forms so no, it's not going to do anything differently that allows you to do this. I think you're right-- you'll have to create a custom form and just save the node programmatically.
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Could someone point me in the
Could someone point me in the right direction?
I tried taking a form, saving it as a .php file and plopping it on the server and using it. It appears mostly correct but the submit button does nothing.
Now what do I need to connect to? Or what do I need to "hook"?
I have never delved into to this sort of code in drupal so I don't know where to start.
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For form api docs see http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--topics--forms_api.html. For programmatically creating nodes see http://drupal.org/node/201594. I would think you could put the code for creating the node right in the submit function for the form.
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Wow, looks daunting for a
Wow, looks daunting for a simple create content form. I was hoping I didn't have to dive into the code but here I go!
Sounds like the node factory
Sounds like the node factory module
http://drupal.org/project/node_factory
could accomplish something like this.
I saw it before but never thought of how it could work until your suggestion!
Thanks!
To make everything in the
To make everything in the form work properly, I am thinking I need to create a empty node first, then have the anon user edit it.
I am thinking this because my imagefields' upload only work after the node is saved. I think this is because I have all files related to a node stored in it's own subdirectory (named as the node number) in the files directory, also prefixed with the node number.
BUT... if I do this and many people visit the page, and don't do anything, I will have a ton of empty nodes to delete.
Seems I just can't win!