Content by user details?

[vwal]

This is a "pre-sales" question as I'm trying to figure out if I'd be able to use LinkUp Gold in an upcoming project.

I'd like to know if it's possible to display specific content based on the user details. The goal is to be able to set up "regional" resources so that when a user has indicated, for example, that they are located in the Dallas metro area, they would only see the content belonging to "Dallas" category but not content for other areas. Users should not be able to bypass this restriction (other than by changing their indicated location).

Thanks for any insights on this!

[PHPWebScripts]

There is not available such feature by default. But if you will create categories for all individual areas, we can add it for you. On the home page can be available the request to choose an area (category) and it can send them directly to the selected category. They will be however able to use the search form if they want to find links in another categories, also the new links box on the home page will show content from all categories.

[vwal]

Thanks for the reply! You being very familiar with the script, how easy or complex would you say it would be to modify the script so that, for example, it would determine the region based on a value in the session variable, then utilize that variable to limit the database queries to that region links only? I'm thinking that if user is authorized using something like amember, his/her profile could include the region identifier which would then be made available to Link Up Gold in a session variable.

Obviously if the region selection was taken care of in the query, I'd also have to add a region selection to the link entry side (and an associated column in the database).

[PHPWebScripts]

As far as I understand, you want to use categories and additionally also regions. In other words categories can't be replaced with regions, as I suggested. We can add it as a custom work but the numbers in the left column and on the home page which show how many links are listed in each category will show links in all regions. Then it also can accept a session with the required region name. Only please note that it should be a session created on the same domain.