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Published blogs in Joomla wrapper

 
Lyncean
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I was hoping to allow clients to log into a published project blog via a Joomla web site. If the client enters a password protected area of the site then they can work on the project, rather than having to link from their email. The page could also have a linked calendar present too.

In my Safari test - the client can successfully log in, and (after I set the wrapper module preferences to “show scroll bars”) the project blog displays correctly. 

However, I have some questions:

Is this approach secure?
There appears to be no way to time-out sessions by an external client so they are not always logged in.

Is there a work-around that makes it possible to use one wrapper for more than one client?
If each client gets a unique link, is there some way for the wrapper module to register the client and show their unique project blog url from a url list built in the Sql database?

Is there an API that achieves this integration much better than a wrapper module?

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Using the published link in this way may work, but could also present some unexpected cases.  It wasn’t conceived to work this way so it’s generally not supported or recommended.

For enhanced integration we do provide an API.  You could develop a robust wrapper that could replicate many of the features of the published blog page.  With this method you would have total control over the security and functionality.  More information on the API is at http://is.gd/518L1