JoomlaPlug!

I really like the way you have set up the demo. I would *highly* appreciate if you can share your technical expertise with me regarding how to go about setting something like this up? Especially, I have following questions:

-How do you make sure that the demo user only gets to see what s/he gets to see? Like demo cannot go to global configuration, and Modules. Cannot install anything or uninstall anything even if I type the URL directly !!

I would be indebted if you can share this with me?

We had to make some custom changes to the inside code, especially to our component so it works in demo mode! But the main idea of what we did was this:

- we setup the demo site with everything we needed in it
- we made a second user called demo for the other visitors
- now, when all ready we went in administrator/component and renamed all component directories which we were not using, so for example com_users directory we renamed it to .com_users and so on! Be careful that some directories from there are required to be left as they are, but i suggest you make each dir at a time and then test the back-end!

- we know this was the hardcore method, there are some other pretty methods, but hackers manage to pass them all the time; meanwhile the hardcore method will disable the sensitive functions of the demo site and leave only the things you want to show!
- also uninstall the components which you do not use, like the mailer component, if left there you might end up sending spam!

Regards, Ovidiu

Also as an idea instead of renaming the directories we specified, you could just change permissions upon them so only the owner could read them! This is a fairly more elegant solution which is easy to restore when you would like to make changes to your demo site as administrator!

Ovidiu