[pmwiki-users] Automatic author name

[Jason Jarvis]

Stirling Westrup <sti <at> pooq.com> writes:

> Strange. I had assumed you were having trouble because of the authentication
> scheme you were using. If you are just using the default system then the
> $Author variable should already be behaving as you wish. The first time
> someone enters a name in the Author field when editing a page and saves, it
> should create a cookie which is used to fill out that field automatically from
> then on. Is this not happening, or is there some other functionality that you
> want it to have?
> 

The funcionality you describe is exactly what I am looking for but unfortunately
doesn't work. I've made sure that the site is allowed to create cookie but it
just doesn't. Also when I have made the cookie myself, it still doesn't use it.