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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Dan,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>I appreciate you going the extra mile in trying to help aide me in this situation.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Let me start with explaining what I need and then I'll say what I did.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am in need of some authentication system that would allow my users to login and self-register. Right now what I think I would like to do is to have my users login with a general username and password that I set (such as name "opentoallusers" and password "fun"). Then, if they want to edit any content, then they would have to register. Here is where my problems starts, because I need a lot of info on them such as username (they want to have show up as they are online), first and last name, address, e-mail, phone number and a couple other fields. All of the information they provide me would have to be stored in a place that only I (the administrator) could access or only they (the single user) could see. Additionally, I need an e-mail possibility, in which they would have to receive an e-mail confirmation from their sign up (in order to make sure their account is legit). Basically this is very standard stuff. When you register now-a-days you have to provide tons of fields of info and then you get an e-mail sent to you with a link that you click in order to finish the registration. That's what I need and I believe ZAP could provide.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, what I did was to download both the ZAP and ZAP toolbox recipes. I then added them into my config page. Afterwards, I followed the directions from <A class=urllink href="http://zapdoc.web-farm.org/" rel=nofollow><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://zapdoc.web-farm.org</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> where I created a <FONT color=#0000ff><FONT color=#000000>ZAP config page verbatum from the website (which it stated on that website I had to do for security reasons) and clicked on save. I then</FONT> </FONT>placed a link on my authuser page (the PMWiki page that shows up in order to login). This link went to a page that I created zap.login page at which I copied and pasted the member management information:</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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(:zapform:)
(:zap login="":)
||Member Name: ||(:input text Member:)
||Password: ||(:input password Password:) (:input submit value="Login!":)
(:zapend:)
</PRE><PRE class=escaped>Afterwards, I placed a link on that page (zap.login) that would lead to a new page I called zap.register and copied this information:</PRE><PRE class=escaped>(:messages:)
(:zapform:)
(:zap datapage="Profiles.{$newmember}":)
||Member Name:%red%*%% ||(:input text Member:)
||Password:%red%*%% ||(:input password Password:)
||Real Name: ||(:input text RealName:)
||Email: ||(:input text Email:)
||Country: ||(:input text Country:)
||Gender: ||(:input select Gender Male:) (:input select Gender Female:)
|| ||(:input submit value="Create Account":)
(:zap register="Email,Password,RealName,Country,Gender":)
(:zap login="auto":)
(:zapend:)
</PRE><PRE class=escaped>I did this so I could experiment with the ZAP login while still be able to login via PMWiki if things went wrong and play with the new user-registration.</PRE><PRE class=escaped>Unfortunately, it locked me completely out of PMWiki. So, fortunately I had made a back-up copy before adding ZAP and tried a different registration system.</PRE><PRE class=escaped>I know I screwed up (probably in this case royally) since I'm a very novice user. I have HTML coding experience and am trying to self-teach myself on PhP now, but I'm still lacking.</PRE><PRE class=escaped>Thanks for your help on this matter,</PRE><PRE class=escaped>Chris</PRE></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> fast4god@gmail.com on behalf of The Editor<BR><B>Sent:</B> Mon 9/8/2008 6:44 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Swift, Chris<BR><B>Cc:</B> pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [pmwiki-users] php form generator<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Chris,<BR><BR>As you are having so much trouble getting support with this, I decided<BR>to download a version of PmWiki to my computer, installed<BR>ZAP/ZAPtoolbox, and cut and pasted the forms from the MemberMgmt page.<BR> No other customizations or other configurations. Plain vanilla<BR>install.<BR><BR>Besides forgetting I had to enable AuthUser, (which took a half hour<BR>of frantic debugging to remember), it worked perfectly. Could you<BR>explain exactly what problem you were having with ZAP? Perhaps I can<BR>debug a bit now that I have a copy of PmWiki on my computer.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>Dan<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Swift, Chris <Chris.Swift@eu.dodea.edu> wrote:<BR>> Dear all,<BR>><BR>> So I'm still on my quest to find the right form to have my patrons<BR>> self-register. I came across these 2 websites<BR>> <A href="http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net/">http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net/</A> and <A href="http://www.phpform.org/">http://www.phpform.org/</A>. I browsed<BR>> through both and found them quite intuitive.<BR>><BR>> So, my question to our forum is, does anyone else have experience in dealing<BR>> with these 2 websites? Would they be useful in creating a form for me that<BR>> I could integrate into PMWiki quite easily (taking into account that I'm an<BR>> extreme newb at programming)?<BR>><BR>> Thanks,<BR>><BR>> Chris<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> pmwiki-users mailing list<BR>> pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com<BR>> <A href="http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users">http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users</A><BR>><BR>><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>