Transition Technology: Ticket #170: Enable login as a pop-up on one page

laura — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:23:52 GMT

laura says this can be handled in a block without extra module action - for discussions

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ed — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:16:12 GMT

milestone set to Phase 3

this remains a 250 stand alone bounty mate - you'll make a lot of friends with this one...

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jim — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 16:25:53 GMT

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I just realised that Lightbox2 (already in place to show images nicely) allows the login box to be made into a nice popup on ALL pages...

It needs a bit of a CSS/JS tweak, but it's in - let me know!!!!!!!!!

Don't like doing myself out of a bounty, but Fancy Login is therefore redundant if we are happy with this route.

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jim — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 16:26:17 GMT

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jim — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:27:48 GMT

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Actually there's a problem that the popup is blank on LIVE - works on my machine... Hmmm will attend to.

ed — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:09:07 GMT

press on, it's worth it. there will always be plenty of other things for bounties.

laura — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:29:24 GMT

Lightbox2 should work well rather than the icky Fancy Login module -keep at it! Do need to check that will degrade if users haven't got js enabled (and on some mobile browsers too, ie take them to the original login page if the popups don't work) ...

Another way (which used for a test on another site but it did need a tweakage to perfect and some styling too) is similar to the Lightbox one which can be found at - http://www.luckyspin.org/?p=130 (Ajax login which also degrades without js too - see the link in the article with a site where it's running on)

jim — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:49:51 GMT

It definitely degrades - adds a jquery event handler to lightbox enabled links, so no JS, normal /user/login applies.

Can also do the site contact form in the same way.

But it's broken on LIVE... Probably an SSL thing, will look into it on my next pass.

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jim — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:40:07 GMT

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Hmmm..... The change between SSL and not is the cause of the pain here - we're breaking into the security dogma of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy - in other words we're asking for a secure page/script from an insecure page, which is bad from a security POV and therefore blocked.

I think Laura's method might also be affected too, I quickly scanned the code but don't have time to check fully now.

Fancy Login DOES work though, it's designed to handle SSL.

Will try once more with a clear head, otherwise we're back to fixing Fancy Login instead...

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ed — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:14:47 GMT

priority changed from major to minor

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ed — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:36:18 GMT

milestone Phase 3 deleted

taking off phase 3 for another day

ed — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:11:51 GMT

will this in some way be related to #262

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jim — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:24:10 GMT

status changed from reopened to closed
resolution set to duplicate

We're going to need to look again and the SSO stuff for this and #262 and PSE -- new ticket to be added as part of PSE infrastructure research.

Popup not great idea any more since we're using SSL.

Closing this one