Bolt Users Extension

The Bolt users extension allows you to add front-end users to your website.

Here is a list of things that the extension allows:

• Define groups of users, allow them to register and login
• Limit ContentTypes (pages) to be visible only by users belonging to a certain group
• Define user fields and allow them to edit their own profile

Installation

To install this extension, simply run the following terminal command from your root folder:

composer require bolt/users

Basic usage

To limit a a ContentType to a specific group of users, say ROLE_MEMBER, do the following:

1. Define your user group in config/extensions/bolt-usersextension.yaml:

groups:
  ROLE_MEMBER:
    redirect_on_register: homepage # Provide either a route name, or a URL
    redirect_on_login: / # Provide either a route name, or a URL
    initial_status: enabled # Once a user registers, he/she is automatically allowed to login

2. Limit the access to a certain ContentType, e.g. entries to that user group in config/contenttypes.yaml:

entries:
    name: Entries
    singular_name: Entry
    fields:
        # ... normal ContentType definition
    allow_for_groups: [ 'ROLE_MEMBER', 'ROLE_ADMIN' ]

Note: The allow_for_groups option is used to limit access to the ContentType (listing as well as record pages). It will only allow users who are logged in and have the correct permission to access those pages. Not even admins will be allowed to view those pages, hence why we add the ROLE_ADMIN group to ensure admins have view rights too.

3. Allow users to register and to login

The extension allows you to include a registration form on any twig template. To add a registration form, just add the following to your twig file:

    {{ registration_form(group='ROLE_MEMBER') }}

This line below will render a registration form with username, password and email fields for the user to fill in. You must always specify the user group to which this form applies (in this case, ROLE_MEMBER). Users who register with that group will automatically receive access rights to ContentTypes limited to that group.

Currently, the registration_form function accepts the following options:

Option name	Description	Required / optional
group	The group for the registering user. Must match a group defined in the extension config.	required
withlabels	If true, the label fields for each input will be included. Default is true.	optional
labels	An array used to override default labels. The key is the field name, e.g. username and the value is the label to be used.	optional

To render the login form, use the following:

    {{ login_form() }}

The login function does not specify the group. The extension will try to authenticate the user with his/her credentials, and assign the correct group to that user. The login_form function accepts two optional arguments, withlabels and labels which work the same way as they do for the registration_form function.

User profiles

Sometimes, you want to do more with users than simply restrict access to certain pages. The extension allows you to define custom user fields by linking a ContentType to a user group.

For example, to define a date of birth to our 'ROLE_MEMBER' group, we would do the following:

1. Define a members ContentType in config/contenttypes.ymal that will be used to store information about users.

members:
    name: Members
    singular_name: Member
    title_format: "{author.username}"
    fields:
      dob:
        type: date
    viewless: true

Then, edit the extension config in config/bolt-usersextension.yaml:

groups:
  ROLE_MEMBER:
    redirect_on_register: homepage
    redirect_on_login: /
    initial_status: enabled
    contenttype: members # Link the 'members' ContentType to the 'ROLE_MEMBER' group.

Now, users belonging to the ROLE_MEMBER group will be able to access their profile at /profile. You can customize the appearance of this page by customizing the record template for the members ContentType.

2. Optionally, you may wish to allow members to edit their profiles. To do this, add the following to the config:

groups:
  ROLE_MEMBER:
    redirect_on_register: homepage
    redirect_on_login: /
    initial_status: enabled
    contenttype: members
    allow_profile_edit: true # If true, members will be able to edit their profiels on /profile/edit . You must specify the edit template below
    profile_edit_template: 'edit_profile.twig'

In this case, the edit_profile.twig file, located in the public/theme/your-theme/ directory, may contain any regular twig template. Here is a basic example of the edit form that you can include:

<form method="post">
    {% for field in record.fields %}
        <label for="fields[{{ field.name }}]"></label>
        {% if field.type === 'text' %}
            <input type="text" name="fields[{{ field.name }}]" value="{{ field.parsedValue }}" />
        {% elseif field.type === 'textarea' %}
            <textarea name="fields[{{ field.name }}]">{{ field.parsedValue }}</textarea>
        {% elseif field.type === 'checkbox' %}
            <input type="checkbox" name="fields[{{ field.name}}]" value="{{ field.parsedValue }}" />
        {% else if field.type === 'date' %}
            <input type="date" name="fields[{{ field.name }}]" value="{{ field.parsedValue }}" />
        {% endif %}
    {% endfor %}

    <!-- The input fields below are required for Bolt to process the form. Do not change them -->
    <input type="hidden" name="_csrf_token" value="{{ csrf_token('editrecord') }}">
    <input type="hidden" name="_edit_locale" value="{{ user.locale }}">
    <input type="hidden" name="status" value="published">
    <input type="submit" value="save">
</form>

Customizing the register and login form appearance

If the customization options available in the registration_form and login_form functions are not enough, you may wish to use the following functions:

For registration:

Function	Description
registration_form_username	Renders the username field
registration_form_password	Renders the password field
registration_form_email	Renders the email field
registration_form_group	Renders a hidden field for the user's group.
registration_form_csrf	Renders a hidden field that contains a CSRF token.
registration_form_submit	Renders the submit button

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For logging in:

Function	Description
login_form_username	Renders the username field
login_form_password	Renders the password field
registration_form_csrf	Renders a hidden field that contains a CSRF token.
registration_form_submit	Renders the submit button

Each field function above takes an optional withlabel argument and the labels argument that is also used by registration_form.