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stevewd259

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stevewd259

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Hi there,

It's been 25 years since I did any coding and that I was only using rudimentary code then. l need a bit of help deciphering what is required of me on the top of the main Histories page of my site.

My site is at:

https://www.stephendickson.scot

I would also like to have all the Histories pages not subject to login so that the Search engines can crawl them. Is this a good idea or am I thinking about things 20 years ago and you shouldn't do this now.

Also there's a bit in the code that's telling me to delete something and I don't understand which bit.

Here's the top of the Histories home page. 

<?php
/*Purpose of this file: To allow you to make new family or feature pages that conform to the same look-and-feel and privacy settings as the rest of your site.

NOTE: The instructions below assume you will place your new page in one of your media subfolders (for example, "histories" or "documents", or create a extrapgs subfolder to your TNG root folder) 
and use copy and paste this file to your preferred subfolder and edit the file in that subfolder.

Instructions:
STEP 1: Make a copy of this file with a different name, keeping the .php extension (for example: myfamily1.php). Make the changes described below in the copy, not the original.
STEP 2: Remove the following two lines. They are here to prevent the template from being used for malicious purposes.  */


//If you want to skip the login check and allow the page to be viewed by visitors even though your site requires Login, remove the comment marks from the following line:
//$nologin = 1;

$cms['tngpath'] = "../";
include( "../tng_begin.php");
if( !$cms['support'] )
	$cms['tngpath'] = "../";

/*  $logstring should contain the URL for your family stories
	writelog creates an entry in the Access Log
	preparebookmark creates the bookmark link on the page  */

$logstring = "<a href=\"histories/index.php\">Our Histories</a>"; // change your title and page name here

writelog($logstring);
preparebookmark($logstring);

// The following $flags can be passed on the family story pages.  The $flags can either be true or false 

$flags['noheader'] = false; // set to true to not include the template Custom Header
	// set to false to include the template Custom Header - normally topmenu.php
$flags['nobody'] = true;  	// set to true to not generate the <body> tag if the tag is in the topmenu.php
	// set to false to generate the <body> tag
$flags['noicons'] = false; 	// set to true to not generate the TNG menu bar 
	// set to false to generates the TNG menu bar
$flags['nologon'] = true; 	// set to true to bypass the checklogin and allow the page to be viewed by visitors even though your site requires Login 
	// set to false to require login to view the page

// for multi-language pages, you can use $text variables for your Feature Story Title

tng_header( "Our Histories", $flags ); // change your title here

?>

I am querying the part that starts "Step 2" as I don't understand which part I'm supposed to delete. And also, if it is a good idea to not have login, the line underneath Step 2, I don't understand what I'm supposed to do there either.

This is the code on one of the internal pages: 

<?php
/*Purpose of this file: To allow you to make new family or feature pages that conform to the same look-and-feel and privacy settings as the rest of your site.

NOTE: The instructions below assume you will place your new page in one of your media subfolders (for example, "histories" or "documents", or create a extrapgs subfolder to your TNG root folder) 
and use copy and paste this file to your preferred subfolder and edit the file in that subfolder.

Instructions:
STEP 1: Make a copy of this file with a different name, keeping the .php extension (for example: myfamily1.php). Make the changes described below in the copy, not the original.
  */


$cms['tngpath'] = "../";
include( "../tng_begin.php");
if( !$cms['support'] )
	$cms['tngpath'] = "../";

/*  $logstring should contain the URL for your family stories
	writelog creates an entry in the Access Log
	preparebookmark creates the bookmark link on the page  */

$logstring = "<a href=\"histories/glasgow.php\">Glasgow</a>";
writelog($logstring);
preparebookmark($logstring);

// The following $flags can be passed on the family story pages.  The $flags can either be true or false 

$flags['noheader'] = false; // set to true to not include the template Custom Header
	// set to false to include the template Custom Header - normally topmenu.php
$flags['nobody'] = true;  	// set to true to not generate the <body> tag if the tag is in the topmenu.php
	// set to false to generate the <body> tag
$flags['noicons'] = false; 	// set to true to not generate the TNG menu bar 
	// set to false to generates the TNG menu bar
$flags['nologon'] = true; 	// set to true to bypass the checklogin and allow the page to be viewed by visitors even though your site requires Login 
	// set to false to require login to view the page

// for multi-language pages, you can use $text variables for your Feature Story Title

tng_header( "Glasgow", $flags ); 


?>

I have set the "nologon" to true but they still seem to require login.

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Philip Roy

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This... 

//If you want to skip the login check and allow the page to be viewed by visitors even though your site requires Login, remove the comment marks from the following line:
//$nologin = 1;

Should have become this... 

//If you want to skip the login check and allow the page to be viewed by visitors even though your site requires Login, remove the comment marks from the following line:
$nologin = 1;

It was just the two lines (the commenting) that you should have removed...not the whole line.

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stevewd259

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Thanks Philip

I hadn't done anything yet as I hadn't a clue. Have removed the comment and the main histories page now doesn't require logon.

https://www.stephendickson.scot/histories/home.php

The rest linked from this page seem to still need logon.

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You need to apply the change to every single history page/file. That value that you’re uncommenting let’s TNG know that it’s okay to display it

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stevewd259

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Ah I get it now. I had to add: 

$nologin = 1;

to every page. It was on the home page but it wasn't on the other pages.

Thanks for your help.

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