Password Protection Pages

[nikwak]

We want to be able to put our wholesale pages on the web but it means they would have to be password protected as we don't want everyone being able to access them. Is this possible? And how would I go about doing it?
Any help greatly appreciated

[garyhay]

This is what the business version helps you do

[I-CC]

A long winded way of doing it without an upgrade would be to create hidden products for your wholesalers that do not physically show up within the online pages, but would be included within the product databases.

Then, create a password protected folder within your hosting account, that contains manually developed pages that contain your wholesale prices and buy buttons for each product at the wholesale price.

You would then need to manually create the Buy button information as follows:

<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="../cgi-bin/ca000001.pl">

<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="SID" VALUE="9">

<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="PAGE" VALUE="PRODUCT">

<INPUT TYPE="IMAGE" SRC="buyme.gif" NAME="15" BORDER="0" ALT="Buy this item now">

</FORM>

If memory serves, the NAME is the product reference, which in this example is 15 and you get the SID from the A0009 SID assigned it, with the easiest method of finding this is to unhide it, generate a preview page of the product and then view the source code for the page, then search for SID and it will be supplied.

This can be tricky though if you have attributes and components for the product, which makes it less worth while doing this option.

An idea to save on going up to Business, although not 100% easy or great, but an option of sorts...

Hope it helps,