• To fine tune the behavior of a Login Page you need to edit its settings.
• Rather than going through each item on the Settings tab, most of which are self explanatory, we will cover those more difficult items and places where you need a heads-up

• The default theme is called Default and it will redirect to the Bootstrap 5 page.
• There is a special theme called Custom which allows you to provide your own URLs where the redirection should go.
• There are also a couple of pre defined themes. Selecting one of those as a theme will redirect to the older Webix style login pages.
• The items on the drop-down is in fact defined inside the DynamicLogin.php file: https://github.com/RADIUSdesk/rdcore/blob/main/cake3/rd_cake/config/DynamicLogin.php
• One of the ideas around the Login Pages is to have a common URL for the captive portal e.g. https://cloud.radiusdesk.com/cake3/rd_cake/dynamic-details/chilli-browser-detect/
• The CakePHP Controller will then determine:
  • Which login page to serve based on the value of Theme.
  • Which language the page must serve based on the default language selected for the Login Page.

• When you added multiple photos you can use the slideshow feature.
• The duration per slide can be fine tuned by editing the photo's settings.
• You can also enforce the watching of the slideshow which will delay the pop-up of the login screen until after the specified time completed.

• This feature is handy on pages where a Permanent User register by typically providing their email address and password.
• When the Permanent User is created (Provided the settings on the Realm is such) a suffix will be added.

• Thus you will have a username like dirk@gmail.com@our_internet_cafe.
• Specifying the Auto-add Suffix as our_internet_cafe will then automatically append that value to the username supplied by the user.

• They then simply have to remember their email address and the password they choose.

• There are two places where the system can send the user an email through a Login Page.
  • The Lost Password option.
  • The User Registration option.
• Remember you first have to configure the system with valid email settings for this to work.

• For T&C you can specify a URL
• Remember if this URL is located on another server, you have to add an entry to the Walled Garden of the Captive Portal for the user to reach this URL.

• There is an option where the page can display the usage to a user after they connected.
• This is handy for a voucher based system or a system that uses permanent users with top-ups.

• Support for Arabic is now also included.
• There are however a small tweak you should do for it to work in an optimal way.
• Edit the /var/www/html/login/bootstrap5/index.html page.
• Remove the default Bootstrap 5 Stylesheet.

<!--Comment the line below out if you are planning to implement languages including Arabic-->
<!--<link href="css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">-->

• Activate the inclusion of it in JavaScript (towards the bottom of the index.html page)

if(i18n == 'ar_AR'){
    $('#htmlMain').attr('dir','rtl');
    $('#htmlMain').attr('lang','ar');
    //RTL Stylesheet
    $('<link/>', {
       rel: 'stylesheet',
       type: 'text/css',
       href: 'css/bootstrap.rtl.min.css'
    }).appendTo('head');              
}else{
    //Normal Stylesheet (if you did comment out the normal Bootstrap stylesheet - activate this section for non-arabic languages
 
    $('<link/>', {
       rel: 'stylesheet',
       type: 'text/css',
       href: 'css/bootstrap.min.css'
    }).appendTo('head'); 
 
}

• This tweak will allow the RTL and normal stylesheet to co-exist thus allowing you to serve pages in Arabic and other languages.
• Not doing the tweak will have a restricted effect on the RTL styling.