User

Login, signup, and account-management forms for secured areas of a site — private portals, member intranets, and anywhere else visitors need their own credentials.

There are three separate, non-interchangeable login systems, each with its own set of shortcodes:

System	Backs into	Shortcodes
Contact Form	The CMS's built-in Contact records	contact_form_* (below) — the modern, recommended choice for member logins.
Module Form	A Datatable you build yourself	module_form_* (below) — use when member records need custom fields a Contact doesn't have.
Portal/User	The CMS's internal User_Manager	form_register, form_forgot_password, form_update, form_error_messages (below) — older, still functional, but Contact Form covers the same ground for new work.

Contact Form

Session state lives in $_SESSION['user_session'], checked/redirected by contact_form_session.

Shortcode	Description
contact_form_session	Place on any page that needs to be behind a login. Redirects to the website's login page (or forward_to) if no one is signed in.
Contact Form Login	A login form wrapper.
Contact Form Signup	A registration form wrapper that creates a new Contact.
Contact Form Update	A form wrapper for the signed-in Contact to update their own info.
Contact Form Forgot Password	Sends a password-reset email.
Contact Form Reset Password	The form a reset email's link lands on, to set a new password.
contact_form_key	A form that generates an OAuth token/secret pair for the signed-in Contact, for authenticating their own API calls.

Module Form

Same shape as Contact Form, but reads/writes rows in a Datatable you specify with the required datatable attribute, instead of Contact records.

Shortcode	Description
module_form_session	The module_form_* equivalent of contact_form_session.
module_form_login	Login form wrapper. Requires datatable; optional forward_to, username_field, password_field.
module_form_signup	Registration form wrapper that creates a new row in the Datatable.
module_form_update	Form wrapper for the signed-in member to update their own row.
module_form_forgot	Sends a password-reset email for a member.

Portal/User (legacy)

Shortcode	Description
form_register	Registration form wrapper, backed by the CMS's own User records.
form_forgot_password	Sends a password-reset email for a User.
form_update	Form wrapper to update a User's own info.
form_error_messages	Renders any queued login/portal error messages (invalid credentials, etc.) as <p class="error_message">.

Other

Shortcode	Description
login_logout_link	A single link that reads as Log In or Log Out depending on session state. Optional logout_redirect (default /), login_page (default /login.stml).
user_documents	Lists the files/folders the signed-in user's own folder gives them access to, as a <ul> of links.