Restricted access to eShop new product form?

[StefanSultanov]

Can I give restricted access to eShop new product form?
How to make the form for creating new products in eShop available to certain users?
Front end or Backend restricted access?
Is there some workaround?

[webgift]

You can create a menu item on which you will give a preferred access level.
Analytically :
[Administrator area] Menu -> [Select Menu Type] for example : Main Menu -> [at Top Right are ] click : New -> Link/Url -> Name: New Products , Link : http://www.yourdomainname.com/eshop/new-products.html
Access Level : [Select whatever you want] like : Registered.

[rentasite]

You can create a menu item on which you will give a preferred access level.

Ok, from that menu item.... if someone clicks on a restricted product & after that he clicks on an internal link of eShop? He will be able to see all products!

[webgift]

This requires to hide the internal links from eShop. .

[datahell]

It is easy and you dont need to edit eshop to do this.
It is the same technique we use for accessing only certain areas of the administration area.

You need to block the following tasks: new, edit, editA for all users except the admin (userid = 62).

So, in administration's template index.php and before echoing anything OR in elxis' index2.php and index3.php files you write something like this:

Code: [Select]

global $my;
if (($my->id != 62) && isset($_REQUEST['option']) && ($_REQUEST['option'] == 'com_eshop')) {
if (isset($_REQUEST['task']) && in_array($_REQUEST['task'], array('new', 'edit', 'editA'))) {
mosRedirect('index2.php?option=com_eshop', 'You are not allowed to add or edit products');
}
}
If you also want to block him from seeing the products list add the task "products" into the above array.

[webgift]

I think that i misunderstood the question 

[babis1]

So, in administration's template index.php

john are you sure in administrator template or in administrator folder index.php  index1.php index2.php?

[datahell]

So, in administration's template index.php and before echoing anything OR in elxis' index2.php and index3.php files you write something like this:

[StefanSultanov]

Thanks for the replies!
I basically want to create a user group that I can assign users to.
This group of users should be able to submit new eshop product and to view and edit their own products.
From what I read so far I should place this piece of code in 3 different files. Administrator/template/index.php, index2.php and index3.php.
To watch out for the "echoes" and place the code before them.

Userid is the username. Am I correct?
Please note:
I'm a designer. I don't have any php experience and I'll paste the code blindfolded. Changing the userid with my own to keep full access to the component.

I'm not sure that I can pull this off safely. So please stop me if I got something wrong.
If someone wants to help me with this I'll be glad to help in return.

[datahell]

This code is for restricting or providing access to specific users. It will not do this:

...view and edit their own products.

[StefanSultanov]

I see

[StefanSultanov]

If this code does not do this. Is there a way to do this thing?

[datahell]

Is there a way to do this thing?
Be more detailed, your question is confusing. What do you mean by saying this thing?

I have replied and show you have to use restrict/provide access to certain users.

If you wish to allow users edit only there own products you need first to add this information in the database. Currently IOS Eshop does not marks who added the product. So you must add a new db column in table elx_products named uid - INTERGER(11). uid will be the author's user id. You must modify the shop's administration pages in order to store this information to db.

After this modification you can limit access to products only to the creators of the products by modifying the queries like this:

$sql = "SELECT * FROM #__products WHERE .... AND uid=".$my->id;

[StefanSultanov]

Got it!