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My client would like the ability to create private member entries.

For example:
If there were 2 users, Mike & Bob and a channel called member_pages could there be “mike” & “bob” entries in that channel that were only viewable by the respective user when logged in?

They are looking to do things such as posting images, files, etc for specific users on a formatted template page.

Cheers,
Mike

Hi Mike,

You could create new entries and call them Mike and Bob so your url_titles become mike and bob

Then in your template for the URL http://www.mydomain.com/index.php/member_pages/name/bob

{exp:channel:entries limit="1" channel="member_pages" url_title="{segment_3}"}

{if logged_in_username == "{url_title}"}

...member content…

{if:else}
Not for your eyes
{/if}

{/exp:channel:entries}

The above is quite a simple solution but should work in theory 😊

You could also make them the author of the entry and add in the author_id=“CURRENT_USER” parameter to only show ‘their’ entries to them.

This way no-one can just guess at the URL and get someone else’s entry shown to them.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks for the assist, Mark!

ibuck, Mark’s right.. using CURRENT_USER is a great solution…

Does that help?

That will work. Thanks for the help!

Glad that solution will work for you.. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.