well, the solution that comes into my mind is this:

associate all the Music Collection to an Itemid (using the default itemid parameter). this ID would be the one you use to enter MC, and you must set it as protected (only registered)

then, how to avoid people just typing the url on the browser, WITHOUT the itemid, so they skip the "blocking"? well, the best way, if you ask me, is to use a SEF solution, such as ARTIO:

Artio saves the itemid of each url, and makes it to be always that one. so your users wont be able to type any address without and Itemid, because this is always added by Artio jomsef.

do you know what I mean?

This is my "personal" joomla solution for REALLY restricting pages on a joomls site.

it's my personal trick I've used it on hundreds of sites.

if you dont want this solution, you can always add a little code on a file to just TOTALLY block MC from unregistered users

is just a couple lines of code, I can tell you how to do it if you want it

germi wrote:

if you dont want this solution, you can always add a little code on a file to just TOTALLY block MC from unregistered users

is just a couple lines of code, I can tell you how to do it if you want it

If you could provide the code, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

open /components/com_muscol/muscol.php

and add this quite at the beginning of the file, about line 12 or 13

$user =& JFactory::getUser();

if(!$user->id){

	JError::raiseError(401, 'You are not authorized to view this content');

	return;	

}

this will quick out every non-registered user that tries to access any music collection content, throwing out a 401 (unauthorized) message

Germi

Awesome! Thanks for the code. I will give it a try.

Just tested it out and it works great. Thanks!

Hi,

I want to use the 401 response status to deny access to unauthorized file downloads on my website, but I was reading (here) that the response is required to include the WWW-Authenticate header field. I don't think Joomla! framework does this, is it something we should handle, if so how?

Thanks,
Corin.

sorry

can you provide me your music collection purchase id? I cant find it in our system..

Germi

Hey,

Sorry, you misunderstand me... I don't have a purchase.

Thanks,
Corin.

I found this post via Google, I'm just interested in the general problem.