[pmwiki-users] setting $Author with $AuthId as prefix

[marc]

Patrick R. Michaud said...
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:24:41PM +1100, Kathryn Andersen wrote:

> Simpler is:
> 
>     include_once("$FarmD/scripts/author.php");
>     include_once("$FarmD/scripts/authuser.php");
>     $Author = "$AuthId-" . preg_replace('/^[^-]*-/', '', $Author);
> 
> > - the Recent Changes page says that the change was made by "Kathryn".
> >   (bad)
> > ...
> > So why isn't the "userid-Kathryn" being used in the Recent Changes page
> > in case A?
> 
> The RecentChanges pages use $AuthorLink (not $Author) for
> generating the attributions in each entry.  $AuthorLink is
> set by author.php -- which for a first-time login is happening
> before the $AuthId manipulations a bit later.
> 
> Simply be sure to also (re)set $AuthorLink when changing $Author:
> 
>     include_once("$FarmD/scripts/author.php");
>     include_once("$FarmD/scripts/authuser.php");
>     $Author = "$AuthId-" . preg_replace('/^[^-]*-/', '', $Author);
>     $AuthorLink = "[[~$Author]]";

Isn't there a glitch with the hyphen after $AuthId? Won't Author be 
displayed, and recorded in RecentChanges, as

    Fred-

Maybe I need more coffee this morning.

-- 
Cheers,
Marc