[pmwiki-users] Automatic author name

Tue Nov 14 04:12:48 CST 2006

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I am trying to get the author name to autopopulate when my users edit.

I don't want to have a full blown authentication system but would rather have the users enter their name once and this then is saved in a cookie and subsequently used to populate the author field.

I have set this up, saving the name entered into a cookie called $AuthId and alos tried $Author but this is not picked up in the edit page.

Can anyone offer any advice? Thanks.

Here is my cookie script

<?
if(isset($AuthId)) {
/* reset the cookie if there was a cookie previously */
setcookie("AuthId",$AuthId, time() + 365 * 86400);
/* set the old date to the date from the cookie */
if(isset($date)) {
$old_date = $date;
} else {
 }
 $date = date("l, F j Y");
 /* reset the date in the cookie to today */
 setcookie("date", $date, time() + 365 * 86400);
 }
 ?>
<html>
 <head>
  <title>The Cookie Script</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <?
  if(isset($AuthId)) {
  ?>
   <script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript">
document.location.href='http://lss_server/pmwiki/pmwiki.php'
</script>
  <?
  } else {
  ?>
   <form action="jason.php" method="POST">
    Please enter your name. This is so your changes are attributed to you. You will only need to do this  once.:    <input type="text" name="AuthId">
   <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
  </form>
 <?
}
 ?>
 </body>
</html>

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