Public or Private
I have set up a few forums and blogs with commenting and I have had some thoughts and issues about what should be private and what should be public. This can often lead to confusion. Why should things need to be kept private and how do you manage different levels of privilege?
furthermore...
Many social media sites like Flickr provide a facility to make some content anly available to registered users. The author / owner of the site can determine which parts are available to everyone and which parts are available only to certain users / visitors. These methods are far more flexible than Intranets, where access is usually determined by IP address.
I am adding thoughts on this subject in the Wiki, but one thing I would like to report here relates to ExpressionEngine.
I have a project in progress where the Intranet needs to be replaced, and rather than restrict by IP address at the folder / directory level, it seems better to let ExpressionEngine take care of the access privaleges. This way, we can have a combination of logged in users and users who are sitting inside a particular domain (ie an IP range).
To this end, I have built a plugin - simply called intranet, that determines the visitors IP address and checks against the given IP range as a paramater attached to the plugin's tag.
Posted on 04 Feb around 10am
Tags: Ideas •