Membership content restriction using javascript

Edit: it's still a little buggy, after working out all the kinks, will update.


Hi all,

I modified the Content - MPrestriction PHP plugin to use Javascript instead of PHP to block content (so content will still be seen by website crawlers, something which should help with SEO). It's not as fast as the PHP implementation (javascript basically does a search & replace on the {mprestriction} ...{/mprestriction}), but seems to do the trick.

Does anyone want a copy of it? It uses the same regular expression as the shipped version, so it should work pretty seamlessly. It's currently in production and seems to be working OK. It uses native Javascript (not JQuery / Mootools, etc.) so it shouldn't conflict with those packages.

Additionally, Tuan if you'd like it to include in the next release, I can send you the code, let me know.

Hi

I don't think I need it for now. Once you have it completed and working properly, please post it in this forum post so that in case someone needs it, they can use it

Regards,

Tuan

Hi all,

I've emailed Tuan the code for this. For some reason I couldn't post on the forum. No idea what the problem was with that.

Thanks. I don't know why you could not post it here (maybe you will need to zip it before posting). I will check my email and post it here. Thanks for sharing

Tuan

I updated the code to fix a bug (I think the previous version of the file I sent was the wrong one anyway), and also added a feature to allow for the plugin to completely ignore the membership restriction requirement (it strips out the {mprestriction} tags and returns the text). This is configurable on the plugin config screen.

If you try this, please share your feedback. Thanks.

I think we can have simpler implementation. We can check in PHP code to see whether the current user-agent is bot and then we will still show the restricted content. I think that would be simpler than working with javascript

Tuan

That's a good idea.

Have you any experience with JBrowser->isRobot()? That looks like it would do the trick, but curious how well it works.

Thanks Tuan!

Hi

Based on my experience, you can use this code:

Regards,

Tuan

Hi Tuan,

Thanks for that, I'll take a look.

If anyone else interested in this? If you're looking at this thread, do a quick reply & say something if you'd like to see this feature in this plugin. If there's enough interest, I'll make the change & re-upload

Thanks all