[pmwiki-users] How to avoid to re-type the "Author" name at each change.

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-10-20  04:40 PM +0200, Xax is rumored to have said:
>Now I understand. To prevent conflict with wordpress (which sets the 
>cookie with the very same name as PmWiki) I renamed in 
>scrips/author.php the cookie name to something different than "author".
>
>I am afraid I just break it. And I did it in all my sites!
>
>I would strongly recommend to fix this incompatibilities with 
>Wordpress. I am going crazy at each update.
>
>Any suggestion on how to fix this problem?

You may wish to make sure that you reply to the list so that everyone 
gets to see the answers. ;-)


As of version 2.0.6 there is a cookie prefix you can set. Release 
notes are here: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/ReleaseNotes and they say:

Version 2.0.6 (16-Sep-2005)

In this release, we provide quite a few more updates for sites that 
want or need to use utf-8 encoding, fix a large number of utf-8 
related bugs, introduce better handling of author cookies, and better 
support for keeping track of version releases.

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A $CookiePrefix variable has been introduced; a wiki administrator 
can set $CookiePrefix to prevent PmWiki's cookies from interfering 
with cookies set from other applications under the same domain name.


Neil

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