How can I allow for the password protect feature to allow visitors to enter any number at all?

Question

I am a beer distributor and I need site visitors to enter their license # on certain pages but there is no way for me to know all of the licenses in the state. I am currently using the default wordpress password protect page feature in the "Publish" section.

Is there a php file that I can change where instead of having the password be a specific number I can tell it to allow any random number?

And what code would I need? I do not know much php.

Or maybe there is a plugin that will do this but I could not find any after searching quite a bit.

Thank you very much for your help.

Answer 1

i agree with s_ha_dum, this is not exactly very protective... but what you could do is build a validation form with jquery and if it passes then convert into the actual password.

example:

real password you created: 0123456789

user enters any ten digits: 6537268574

with jquery you can store the value entered somewhere (if you will need it further on) and then change that password field to '0123456789'

two caveats: as mentioned before, really not much protection at all... and also, this would mean that everyone is logging into the same user, which could present some problems down the road.

Answer 2

okay, first you want to limit the length of the input to the desired number of digits:

<input type="text" name="license" maxlength="10">

• set maxlength to the number you need.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_maxlength.asp

with this code (jquery - put it in your themes/theme_folder/js/functions.js - and make sure you are calling the jquery files and this js file in the front end) you can limit the input to only numerals, backspace, and delete:

$(document).ready(function() {
$("#txtboxToFilter").keydown(function(event) {
    // Allow only backspace and delete
    if ( event.keyCode == 46 || event.keyCode == 8 ) {
        // let it happen, don't do anything
    }
    else {
        // Ensure that it is a number and stop the keypress
        if (event.keyCode < 48 || event.keyCode > 57 ) {
            event.preventDefault(); 
        }   
    }
});
});

since this is technically not password protecting you could leave it at this, and just make this a required field to proceed to the next page.

although if you do have an actual password you can just use jquery .text(); to change it to that password when you click on submit:

$('#submit').click(function(){
    $("#txtboxToFilter").text("0123456789");
});

http://api.jquery.com/text/

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