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So now that we have some information here on the Web site that is somewhat

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sensitive -- it's information that KinetECO doesn't want the general public to

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know what distributors are paying for their products -- we would like to make sure

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that only certain people have access to that information. Joomla

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out of the box has the Login link down here at the bottom of the screen, and when

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we click on that, and we scroll on down, we have the option, of course, of typing

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in our User Name and Password.

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We also have functionality here to recover our User Name and Password if we have

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forgotten them. But then notice this last link here called Don't have an

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account? Well, if we click on this, we are able to register for this Web site,

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just by filling out this form. And remember the Captcha down here we configured

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back in the components chapter? We turned this on as part of our contact form,

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and it also shows up here in our User Registration form.

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So anybody can come to this Web site now, and just fill in this tiny little

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bit of information, and they will have a login for the Web site, which means

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that anybody who fills out this form will be able to see the information for the distributors.

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That's probably not what we really want. We only want people to log in to this

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Web site who have that login. We don't want just anybody registering for the

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Web site; we want to have control over who has those logins.

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So I wanted to just show you some of the options that Joomla

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has for controlling who can register for your Web site.

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So here in the back-end of Joomla,

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if we go to Users, and we go to the User Manager, up here at the top, as we have

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seen in many other areas of Joomla,

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there is an Options button. If you go ahead and click the Options button, this

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is where we can configure some of these registration options.

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So first of all, do you want to allow user registration at all of any kind?

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So you can turn it on, or turn it off.

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If we simply turn off registration by saying No, and say Save, what will happen

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here on the login screen, when I go back to it -- I am just going to click on the

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Login link again down here in the bottom -- that link to register for the Web site

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is completely gone, and that functionality is disabled. So here I have just shut

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off registration for the Web site altogether.

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There are some other options, though.

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When somebody registers for the Web site, if you do have self-registration turned

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on, when someone registers for the Web site, what user group do they join?

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By default, they become Registered users,

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which is probably a good choice, particularly if you're letting just anybody

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register for your Web site.

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That means they can log in, but they can't do anything else. They can't edit

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anything, they can't create anything, they can't delete anything, they

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can't publish anything.

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So think very carefully if you want to change that New User Registration Group.

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We can also specify the Guest User Group, and by default, that's Guest, and if for

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some reason you ever wanted to change that, you can.

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The Send Password option here has to do with, when somebody registers for the

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site, or you register someone for the site, as we created a user for this site in

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the back-end of Joomla,

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if they self-register, will an e-mail be generated that sends out to the person

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who had the account created for them, and will that password information be

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included in that e-mail?

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So you can turn that on or off there.

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The next thing that's of interest is this New User Account Activation, so we

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have three choices here: None, Self, or Admin.

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What this indicates is, None would mean I can register for the Web site on the

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front-end of the Web site, and I'm immediately able to log in to the Web site

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once I've registered.

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I can immediately go and log in.

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Self indicates that I have to have an e-mail sent to me first. The e-mail has

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the little link in it that I click on;

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when I click on the link, then I can log into the Web site.

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So basically what Self registration does is it makes sure that people aren't

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registering for your Web site with bogus e-mails. They have to receive an e-mail

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that confirms that it is in fact a real e-mail, where they can check their e-mail,

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and they have to click on the link before they can log in to the Web site.

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And Admin means that you can register for the Web site, but you are not able

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to log in to the Web site until an Administrator or Super administrator logs

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in to the back-end of the Web site, and confirms that you are able to access the information.

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So the question is, what is best in the case of KinetECO?

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Well, I've actually just turned off user registration.

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There's not that many distributors for the Web site right now, and as they sign up

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new distributors, someone will have to come into the back-end of Joomla,

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and create a new account for that particular distributor.

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I don't think that's the end of the world.

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They're just signing up a few distributors a month; it's not a huge amount of work.

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The other option would be to Allow User Registration, but set the New User

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Account Activation to Admin.

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And so what that would mean is that anybody could register for the Web site, but the Joomla

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Administrators would have to go in and allow only those who are really permitted

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to access the Web site, so they'd have to hear from the sales team who are signing up

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the distributors, and confirm that the e-mail addresses match before they

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enable that particular login for the Web site.

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I think that that second option is a little bit more work, potentially, for the Joomla

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Administrator, because sometimes you wind up getting a lot of bogus

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registrations on a Web site, and while Captcha will help keep those down to a

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minimum, you could still wind up with a lot of work of cleaning out people who

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are not really supposed to be registered for that particular Web site, as opposed

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to you are going to have to create a few logins every month.

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So you are just going to have to weigh which creates less work on the part of the Joomla

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Administrator. And also, of course, thinking about customer service, as to whether

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you want your distributors registering for the Web site, or whether you want to do

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them the service of registering for them.

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So those are sort of the big things that you might want to configure here in

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the back-end of Joomla.

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Just a couple of other minor things here; you can allow people to change their

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login name, or not, so you can turn that on and off.

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The Maximum Reset Count here on the screen is how many times can somebody change

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their password, so right now it's set to a maximum time of 10 times. And how long

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do they have between the ability to change their password?

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Well, they have to wait at least an hour to change their password; that's what

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these two dropdowns are about.

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So you could minimize a number of times somebody could change their password, and

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you could stretch out the amount of time that they have to wait before they can

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change their password again.

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Again, this is all about security, and managing your users, and so forth.

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So, the only thing that I wound up changing on the screen is I set my Allow User

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Registration to No. I've left all the rest of these settings alone, and I am

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going to go ahead and say Save & Close.

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And so now on the front-end of the Web site, I don't have the link anymore to

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register for the Web site, and that's okay.

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What I will be doing is, as new distributors are signed up, I'll be creating

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logins for them, and that'll work just fine. There's only a few of these per

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month, so it's not a huge amount of work that I'm taking on by doing this.