Ask code for display some information on website

Hi,

I have a customer which want to hide some non-sensitives but privates informations on his website, except for those have enter a secret code to unlock theses informations.
This is a simple protection, not bullet proof, and I first thought to manage a special user for this, but the users will be used later for another part of the website and I think it could be tricky to set both for different purpose.
So I began to think about using cookie to doing this.

Do you think it is the best idea to doing this and do you know how to implement it ?

Maybe you could write a value to $_SESSION like in this thread:

Thanks, I will try in this way :slight_smile:

I’d use javascript’s localStorage API instead of cookies. Something like this:

function displayInfo(){
    if(localStorage.getItem('showinfo') == 'true'){
        //show the info
    }
}

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', displayInfo);

document.querySelector('#checkCodeButton').addEventListener('click', function(){
    let userCode = document.querySelector('#secretcodefield').value;
    if(userCode == "secret-code"){
        localStorage.setItem('showinfo', true);
        displayInfo();
    }
}

If you don’t want the secret code to be accessible client-side then you could use the Fetch API to pass userCode to a server-side script for the checking bit.