[pmwiki-users] UserAuth question

[Dan Weber]

"Waylan Limberg" <waylan at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:e5d795bb0601191012g74a8fe4ar4fc0598d4dab648 at mail.gmail.com...
> On 1/19/06, rene beekman <r at raakvlak.net> wrote:
>> hi,
>> i've been playing around with an installation of pmwiki for a few days
>> now and have found it by far the easiest wiki installation that i've
>> tried.
>> even with my extremely limited skills in php
>> very impressive!
>>
>> i'm setting up a website where i don't want regular visitors to be able
>> to, or even see the edit, page history, etc links
>> i've installed UserAuth for user-based access control and that all
>> seems to work fine.
>> __seems, because i can get the "edit sideBar" link to disappear when i
>> logout, but i cannot do the same trick to the footer of the actual
>> page...
>>
>> searching the archive i found the solution that hagan suggested a few
>> days ago:
>> > Maybe use <!--markup:--> in your template.  Try this (unwrapped so
>> > it's on one line) :
>> >
>> >     <<!--markup:(:if ! auth edit :)[[({$Name}?action=)login]](:if auth
>> > edit:)[[({$Name}?action=)logout]]-->
>> >
>> > or
>> >
>> >     <!--markup:(:if loggedin true:) [ [[{$Name}?action=edit|Edit]] ] [
>> > [[{$Name}?action=edit|View]] ] (:if:)-->
>>
>> which does work, but ends up being a bit of a pain when the list of
>> links to be hidden gets too long
>> (also, why are the links formatted in <pre></pre> pairs????????? )
>> getting the original (:if loggedin true:) HiddenLink (:if:) to work
>> would be more elegant and flexible - and it would respect my layout as
>> a bonus.... :)
>> any suggestions on why (:if loggedin true:)(:if:) would work in the
>> sideBar but doesn't when it's wrapped in a div in a page?
>>
>
> Take a close look at that markup. Each of the links is wrapped in an
> extra set of brackets padded with a space [
> [[{$Name}?action=edit|Edit]] ]. I'm assuming that is giving you the
> <pre> tags. Try removing those and see what happens. Then again, maybe
> there was a reason Hagan had them that way. I don't know, but that was
> the first thing I noticed.
>
>
> --
> ----
> Waylan Limberg
> waylan at gmail.com


The easiest may be to use the CmsLike recipe. It comes pre-configured to 
show the links that match the current author level and you can change it to 
match your needs.