[pmwiki-users] Author setting in two different ways

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Fri Jun 9 15:52:36 CDT 2006


On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:02:27PM -0500, Jon Haupt wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> So I'm using AuthUser and enforcing author tracking on my wiki.
> Everything works fine except that one group on my wiki has a simple
> read/edit password (so it doesn't require authenticated ID).  The
> problem here is if they type in an author name, this isn't copied to
> $Author like an $AuthId is.  Is there a way to do this so that either
> way, the author cookie is automatically set if they enter one (whether
> it's an authenticated ID or just a name to go with the password)?

It's not pretty, but try the following in local/config.php:

  if (@$_POST['authid'] && !@$_COOKIE['author'])
    $_POST['author'] = $_POST['authid'];

This will use the username field (from the authentication form)
to set the author cookie if one hasn't already been set.

Pm




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