[pmwiki-devel] A thought: Use profile pages for individual settings

[sti at pooq.com]

christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> Just had a thought which I should share before going to bed.
> 
> If we want to allow users/readers to have personal settings (skin?), how 
> about we store these in the users' profile page?
> 
> Perhaps it could be as simple as a line saying:
> 
>     skin=cuteskin
> 
> in the page [[~chr]]. Then, when the user is identified as 'chr', the 
> page Profiles/Chr is scanned for settings such as what skin that user 
> wants.
> 
I plan to experiment with just that feature on a site I'm working on 
now. The plan is for users to log in with a username, which will also be 
the name of their profile page. By default the profile page will be 
read-only, but there'll be a form recipe to to set individual profile 
preferences.

So far all I've got set up is the $Author name which is loaded from the 
profile (all links to users use the username, but display the Author name).