EXT: Change front end user password

Extension Key: changepassword

Copyright 2011, Muhammed Alat, <info [mailat] alatsystems [domaindot] de>

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Table of Contents

EXT: Change front end user password	1

Introduction	2

What does it do?	2

Screenshots	2

Installation	3

Configuration	4

Reference	4

Samples	4

Known problems	5

To-Do list	6

Changelog	7

Introduction

What does it do?

Changepassword is a simple Frontend plugin to change the password of front end users. It supports changing plain text passwords, md5 passwords and saltedpasswords password.

Screenshots

Installation

- Import changepassword from Extension repository and install .

- The installation process of the extension is just as usual. Just download and install the extension with the the extension manager.

- Create a page that will be displayed when fe users are logged in and want to change their passwort.

- Now you can create a page content where users can change their passwords. Here you may use the changepassword FE Plugin on this page to display the changepassword form.

Configuration

You can change the default template by selecting another from your fileadmin folder. Just copy the original template from typo3conf/ext/changepassword/res/template.html to fileadmin/changepassword.html and change the layout. Furthermore you habe to select a source Page wehere the front end users are stored. Dont forget to select the stored Page. In the example below the page “Benutzer” with the id 3 is selected.

Reference

Property:	Description:
constants	To be updated..
setup	To be updated..

Samples

If you have a subpart CHANGEPASSWORD you can load the plugin via the following typoscript configuration:

page.10.subparts.CHANGEPASSWORD < plugin.tx_changepassword_pi1

You are also free to load it in any other part of your typoscript configurations.

Known problems

There are no known problems at the moment. If you find any bugs, please report them. You can report them due to the online form http://www.alatsystems.de/kontakt/.

To-Do list

- Insert a constant with the minimum length of the newpassword, now it is hardcoded with 6.

Changelog

- 2011-07-08: Bug Fixes: Thanks to Boris Glusmann from http://www.horschler.eu

- 2010-03-12: Update Documentation

- 2010-03-10: Initial release

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EXT: Change front end user password

Muhammed Alat

2010-03-10T16:52:18