shadowbox login page

I've set up my login page to appear in a shadowbox using the shadowbox.js code at www.shadowbox-js.com/. Everything is working fine in the user login area of the site, but in directing users to the user login page on a restricted page using the SecurityAssist Restrict Access to Page server behavior, I'd like the user login page to appear in a shadowbox. Is there a way to define the rel= value in the

WA_Auth_RestrictAccess("<url to login page>");

code?

Thanks for your creative help!

enthusiastically...

no, the restrict access redirect cannot apss the rel attribute, you would need to find a way to open the login form onload.

from their usage page:
usage.html


it looks like you can set a welcome message on the on;load function:


<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="shadowbox.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="shadowbox.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
Shadowbox.init({
// let's skip the automatic setup because we don't have any
// properly configured link elements on the page
skipSetup: true
});

window.onload = function() {

// open a welcome message as soon as the window loads
Shadowbox.open({
content: '<div id="welcome-msg">Welcome to my website!</div>',
player: "html",
title: "Welcome",
height: 350,
width: 350
});

};
</script>



it looks like the content argument can take a url:
content The actual content of the object (e.g. URL, HTML code, etc.)


so set the restriction redirect to go to a blank page, and set the shadowbox.open content argument to the url of the login page

That's a workaround - I was able to get it to work by setting the Shadowbox player attribute to iframe. When it was set to HTML all I got was the URL displayed in the shadowbox.

I wonder if the onload could be put in a conditional script on the pages that check user login so that we can open the login page in a shadowbox without having to be sent to the login_loader page (that's what I call it).

Meanwhile, after I log in, I'm taken to the user Profile page as designed but then when I navigate back to the protected page via a link I put on the login_loader, it bounces me back to the login_loader page. Apparently I'm not being logged in even though the user profile page shows up after I click the Login button. Could this have to do with the login occurring in a child page instead of a parent page?

Thanks!

I'm sure you could make the shadowbox.open function conditional, but is will require hand coding of the shadow box API that I cannot offer support for.

if you put the same link on another page besides the login loader page, does it work?

it could be that the login loader page is killing the session variable somehow.

Thanks, I understand what you are able to support.

When accessing member login from the home page I get the login page in a shadowbox and am able to log in, then I'm taken to the profile page, indicating that the login was successful. When I close the shadowbox and attempt to access another page on the site which I've protected and set to redirect to the registration page. It redirects to the registration page, so perhaps there's an issue with the relationship between the parent page and the child page that does not allow the session to be retained in the parent page. I'll do some tests and see what I can turn up.

Thanks for your help as always!

to help see whats going on, you could add this code to the registration and profile page, after the body tag:

<?php var_dump($_SESSION); ?>

can you send a link to the login loader page so i can take a look at how this is set up

Mark, did you ever get this to work?

I am interested in doing the same thing, however my preference is fancyBox 2 from fancyApps fancybox/

Dennis