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preflow/members

Member accounts for a Preflow + Folio site: the member type in Folio with a waiting badge, a state column and a Decision panel (accept or decline with an editable message), the member roles, and a pluggable admission rule.

Install

• Add Preflow\Members\MembersServiceProvider to config/providers.php (after FolioServiceProvider and RbacServiceProvider).
• The member roles (pending, member, rejected) need the rbac extension; booting without it is an error. folio:extensions:apply creates the roles that are missing and never changes one that exists.

• Members live in the storage alias members when config/data.php has it, else on default:

• Members sign in through their own guard. In config/auth.php:

• The session paths must cover the members path (/members above); public pages then get no session and no cookie. Locale prefixes are stripped first, so /de/members/login counts as /members/login.
• A password change or reset ends the member's other sessions: the member type's auth_epoch field is the session epoch the guard checks on every request (provider key epoch, default auth_epoch), and the remember rows are revoked.
• The members provider must keep the default epoch field auth_epoch (leave epoch out): the package writes that field.

Configuration

config/members.php, every key optional:

• path must be below the site root ('' or '/' is a boot error): the member pages own everything under it.
• privacy_url as a map: a locale without an entry gets the default locale's; empty means the consent reads without a link.

Fixed names (stored data depends on them; MembersConfig lists them as constants): type and table member, guard members, permissions members.access and members.decide, roles pending, member and rejected, token purposes members.confirm and members.reset, throttle purposes members.login, members.register, members.forgot and members.resend.

Links in mails use app.url and the locale prefixes of config/i18n.php (the default locale at the root): https://site.test/de/members/login.

Pages and routes

The provider registers these routes under path (in every locale: /de/members/login, the default locale without a prefix):

• The members home (GET {path}) is the site's own page (a toolbox, "my objects"); the package only sends people there: after sign-out, and staff who open the account page. Sign-in, reset and an accepted confirmation go to landing.
• After a confirmation Decision::Accept makes a member, signs them in (remembered) and redirects to landing; Decision::Pending gives the pending role, shows the thanks page and mails the owner (Members settings notice_email, when set). The admission's confirmNotice() (when not null) is shown on that thanks page, or, for an accepted member, flashed as members.notice for the landing to show.
• A sign-in's next is kept only when it is a member page ({path} in any locale); anything else lands on landing.
• Every form needs the CSRF token (csrf_field() in the templates); every page is private, no-store.
• Flash notices: members.notice (e.g. "Your account is deleted.") is shown by the package pages of the register controller; a site whose register is its own page reads it there. members.account is the account page's own.
• Throttles (throttle config): sign-in per client and per address, registration per client, forgot per client and per address, resend per address (over the limit the page stays the same, only the mail is skipped).

Admission

After a member confirms the e-mail, the configured Preflow\Members\Admission\Admission decides: AcceptOnConfirm (a member at once) or OwnerApproval (the owner decides in Folio, the default). A site's own rule implements the interface:

validate() is asked on every post, so its errors show together with those of the form's own fields (name, email, password, consent). $baseErrors are those (field => key): skip a costly or throttled check (a code lookup) when $baseErrors !== [], the post fails anyway.

details($member, Admission::PANEL) appear in the Decision panel (Registered … · label: value), details($member, Admission::NOTICE) in the owner's notice mail, one paragraph each; an entry with an int key is shown without a label. The keys of recordValues() must be fields of the member type; a site adds fields with its own config/models/member.json:

Site fields come after the package's in the edit form; "after": "name" on a field puts it right after that field instead. The same works for the Members settings (members_settings.json with "extends": true).

Overriding templates

The pages are @members/{register,confirm,login,forgot,reset,resend,check-inbox,thanks,closed,account}.twig plus the shared _card.twig, all extending the configured layout. @members/decision.twig is the Decision panel in Folio (a fragment in the admin, not a page). A site overrides one by putting a file of the same name in resources/members/ (searched before the package; a new directory needs a fresh request to be picked up).

To change only a part of a page, extend the original through @members-package (extending @members/register.twig from the override of the same name would recurse into itself):

register.twig has the blocks intro, admission_fields (the admission rule's own fields), extra_fields (fields you added to the member type) and consent_text; set privacy_url in config/members.php for the privacy link, or override consent_text (e.g. for a link a Folio setting chooses). The posted values are in old (old.code), the errors in errors (errors.code). The mail layout (mail.layout) is a template too. Words are changed in the lang files (see Copy and mails), not in templates.

Cron

Run members:prune nightly (the package registers the command through extra.preflow.commands, preflow list shows it). That needs preflow/devtools 0.26; with an older devtools only the command is missing, the member pages and Folio work (the package conflicts with auth, data, folio and i18n before 0.26, not with devtools):

Unconfirmed accounts go after retention.unconfirmed_days (7, from registration), declined ones after retention.declined_days (30, from the decision); expired tokens, remember rows and throttle hits are pruned. It prints counts only (no addresses or names) and a lock file in storage/locks keeps two runs from overlapping.

Locales

Locales and URL prefixes come from config/i18n.php; the package lang files ship en, de and fr. Without config/i18n.php the pages run in a single locale with no prefix.

In Folio

• Members (sidebar section Members) with a waiting badge and a State column, newest first, filterable by Registered, Email confirmed and Decided dates (from/until).
• The Decision panel offers Accept from Waiting or Declined and Decline from Waiting or Member; the server refuses anything else. The mail goes out first; when it fails, nothing changes. Declining ends the member's remembered sessions.
• Settings → Members settings: registration_open, notice_email, accept_message, decline_message (translatable; {name} and {login_url} are filled in). Left empty, the panel takes mail.accepted.body / mail.declined.body of the lang files; the settings form shows that standard text, in the language being edited, as the field's placeholder. A text stored only for another locale is not used (the member gets the lang default in their language).

Copy and mails

The words of the member pages and mails are in lang/{en,de,fr}/members.php. A site changes single keys in its own lang/<locale>/members.php; the rest stays the package's. German is in the formal "Sie" form; a site that says "du" overrides the German keys.

• MemberMailer sends confirmLater, existingLater, resetLater and noticeLater after the response (a failure goes to the optional $onFailure), and accepted / declined at once (a TransportException aborts the decision).
• Each mail is in the member's language (the site default when the site lacks it); the owner's notice is in the site default locale. Mail bodies use {name}, {link}, {login_url}, {reset_url}, {validity}, {email}, {details}, {folio_url}.
• {validity} (and :validity in inbox.hint) is how long the link works, from confirm_ttl / reset_ttl: LinkValidity::confirm($locale) / reset($locale) give "24 hours", "eine Stunde" (lang keys validity.hours / validity.minutes, plural forms).
• The HTML part renders mail.layout (default the neutral @members/mail/layout.twig) with lang, subject, accent and paragraphs (escaped text, URLs linked in the accent colour).
• The sender is mail.from_name with the address of config/notify.php channels.email.from; without a from name the channel's own sender applies.
• When a new member's confirm mail fails, remove the account with Members::removeIfUnconfirmed($id): it keeps a member who confirmed meanwhile.