User Profile page - one user can only access one page

Question

I'm new to craft, in fact I haven't built a site with it yet, but am looking forward to getting my teeth into this interesting and seemingly very flexible CMS.

I am about to embark on a medium sized website build and have a question that is kind of a deal breaker for choosing the CMS. My question is:

Can I create users that have their own profile page, who can only edit their own page and do nothing else? This won't be a public registration, but administered internally, however they must be able to maintain a profile containing images, text and predetermined layouts that they can choose between.

Thanks guys!

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Brad, Thanks so much for your response.

Regarding the URL - could it be configured to be something like mydomain.com/members/membername instead of passing a url option?

Answer 1

Absolutely.

From the template side you'd do something like this to ensure they're editing their own page:

{# assuming the URL structure for the profile page looks something like http://mydomain.com/users?id=5 %}

{% set editUserId = craft.request.getParam('id') %}

{% if editUserId and currentUser.id == editUserId %}
    You're in!
{$ else %}
    {% exit 403 %}
{% endif %}

Where currentUser is a global variable that's a UserModel object.