[pmwiki-users] authuser / Setting the author automatically
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Wed Feb 8 17:37:13 CST 2006
Because of the mailing list problems I apparently didn't get any
of the messages in the thread concerning this topic. Here's my
answer...
I spent a good portion of lunch today thinking about setting
$Author based on $AuthId, and I think I've come to the conclusion
that it will be built-in by default in author.php.
Thus, author.php will use the following logic to set the value
of $Author (some cookie details omitted for clarity):
if (!isset($Author)) {
if (!isset($_POST['author'])) $Author = $_POST['author'];
elseif ($_COOKIE['author']) $Author = $_COOKIE['author'];
else $Author = $AuthId;
}
This leaves us with the following:
- If a site isn't using authuser.php or otherwise setting $AuthId,
then things work as they always have.
- If a site includes authuser.php or sets $AuthId, then $Author
defaults to $AuthId but the author has the ability to set or change
it.
- If a site administrator wishes to force $Author = $AuthId such that
an author cannot override it, use:
include_once("$FarmD/scripts/authuser.php");
$Author = $AuthId;
- If a site administrator wants user-based authentication but doesn't
want $Author to default to $AuthId, use:
include_once("$FarmD/scripts/author.php");
include_once("$FarmD/scripts/authuser.php");
I think that covers all of the cases. Comments?
Pm
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