[pmwiki-devel] Login and function PmWikiAuth

[marc]

Patrick R. Michaud said...
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 06:47:53PM -0000, marc wrote:
> > marc said...
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I prefer to use a login form in the sidebar - just username and password 
> > > - along with authuser and authuserdb. This works fine except  when an 
> > > invalid login occurs. In this case $AuthPromptFmt is opened in the main 
> > > page.
> > > 
> > > This look a bit odd, because there are then two login prompts on the 
> > > page: one in the sidebar and one on the main page.
> > > 
> > > What I am trying to achieve is to retain the main page unchanged, and 
> > > simply report login/page access errors in the sidebar form.
> > > 
> > > I can see that this is handled by the last lines of PmWikiAuth(), but 
> > > can't think of a way to change this in situ to do what I want.
> > > 
> > > Is the best way to copy PmWikiAuth() with appropriate changes, and point 
> > > to it via $AuthFunction? Or, more likely, am I way off base? 
> > 
> > <bump>
> > 
> > Please let me know if I've not explained the issue well enough. 
> 
> It's explained well enough -- I don't have a quick answer (but
> I'm thinking about it).
> 
> It seems as though putting 
> 
>     (:redirect {*$FullName}:)
> 
> into Site.AuthForm might get pretty close -- i.e., whenever
> someone requests a protected action, it returns them to the
> 'view' of the page.  But I'm not sure how to get a login/page access
> error message into the sidebar in that case.
> 
> It may be that it needs some special handling in local/config.php:
> 
>     ##  check to see if we have sufficient permission for the
>     ##  requested action, if not, then add an error message and
>     ##  switch to ?action=browse.
>     $page = RetrieveAuthPage($pagename, $HandleAuth[$action], false);
>     if (!$page) {
>       $MessagesFmt[] = 'Please log in with appropriate privileges';
>       $action = 'browse';
>     }
> 
> You might try something like that.

Thanks Patrick, those are excellent hints. I'll have a a play and see 
where I get to.

-- 
Best,
Marc