[pmwiki-users] PMWIKI WEBSITE MEMBER MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS

Tue Jul 31 09:21:58 CDT 2007

  WEBSITEHallo!My names are Joe Irungu.I am a 22 year old Kenyan citizen who has developed a wiki based website using Pmwiki package.

  Unfortunately,my member management system is manual.I have created a html form which new users who want to register can fill.This form links to  a php form  that pasts data to a MySQL database.I then open the Site.AuthUser page where I manually insert the  username and password.

  As you can see,this manual member management system is not efficient.This is why I turned to the use of  ZAP but I have encountered problems.Lets go through what I have done step by step.

  1)    I download zap into my cookbook from the PmWiki website and enabled it in a local config file by adding this line: 
  include_once("$FarmD/cookbook/zap.php");
  2) To verify that I  had ZAP properly installed on your system, copy this snippet to a new page that I created in my wiki and clicked the button. 

(:zapform key=check:)(:zapget:)

(:zap Install="Installation Successful" check:)

(:zap passdata="Install" check:)

(:input submit value="Test Install":) {$Install}

(:zapend:)

The "Installation Successful" text appeared.

3)I then created a new page called Register and entered the text below in this page so as to create a Registration form.

  [[#ID]]
  (:messages:)
  (:zapform:)
  ||Member Name:%red%*%% ||(:input text Member:)
  ||Password:%red%*%% ||(:input password Password:)
  ||Real Name: ||(:input text RealName:)
  ||Email: ||(:input text Email:)
  ||Country: ||(:input text Country:)
  ||Gender: ||(:input select Gender Male:) (:input select Gender Female:) 
  || ||(:input submit value="Create Account":)
  (:zap register="Email,Password,RealName,Country,Gender":)
  (:zap login="auto":)
  (:zapend:)
  [[#ID]]

I then saved the form,entered data and clicked the create account button.A message “Form Submitted” appeared.

In an effort to view data on the page I tried to edit the form above by adding the following 

Field 1: {$:Member}

Field 2: {$:Password}

Field 3: {$:RealName}

Field 4: {$:Email}

Field 5: {$:Country}

Field 6: {$:Gender}

Thus the entire Registration page looked as below.

  [[#ID]]
  (:messages:)
  (:zapform:)
  ||Member Name:%red%*%% ||(:input text Member:)
  ||Password:%red%*%% ||(:input password Password:)
  ||Real Name: ||(:input text RealName:)
  ||Email: ||(:input text Email:)
  ||Country: ||(:input text Country:)
  ||Gender: ||(:input select Gender Male:) (:input select Gender Female:) 
  || ||(:input submit value="Create Account":)
  (:zap register="Email,Password,RealName,Country,Gender":)
  (:zap login="auto":)
  (:zapend:)
  [[#ID]]

Field 1: {$:Member}

Field 2: {$:Password}

Field 3: {$:RealName}

Field 4: {$:Email}

Field 5: {$:Country}

Field 6: {$:Gender}

  I then saved it and entered data.The data I put was not shown on the page.

  I tried editing the page as follows(I prefer having the page as below with test Member,Real Name etc instead of Field 1  Field 2 etc. 
  [[#ID]]
  (:messages:)
  (:zapform:)
  ||Member Name:%red%*%% ||(:input text Member:)
  ||Password:%red%*%% ||(:input password Password:)
  ||Real Name: ||(:input text RealName:)
  ||Email: ||(:input text Email:)
  ||Country: ||(:input text Country:)
  ||Gender: ||(:input select Gender Male:) (:input select Gender Female:) 
  || ||(:input submit value="Create Account":)
  (:zap register="Member,Password,RealName,Email,Country,Gender":)
  (:zap login="auto":)
  (:zapend:)
  [[#ID]]

  Member: {$:Member}
  Password: {$:Password}
  RealName: {$:RealName}
  Email: {$:Email}
  Country: {$:Country}
  Gender: {$:Gender}

  The following error resulted

  Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in c:\wamp\www\pmwiki5\pmwiki.php on line 719

  How can I solve this problem?

  4) I then Created a page in my wiki called Site.ZAPConfig and copied the following text to the same page and saved it.
   ZAP Version

 ZAP: {$ZAPversion}

 ZAPtoolbox: {$ZAPtoolboxversion}

ZAP Groups

 Login: Profiles

 Profiles: Profiles

 EmailList: Profiles

 NewsList: NewsList

 NewsQueue: NewsQueue

Several links were created i.e ZAPToolbox, EmailList, NewsList, NewsQueue.I placed all the text in ZAPToolbox.php in the ZAPToolbox page that was created after I clicked the ZAPToolbox link.

5)I also tried to create a user Login system by creating a login page and putting in the text below.

  [[#ID]]
  (:messages:)
  (:zapform:)
  (:zap login="":)
  ||Member Name: ||(:input text Member:)
  ||Password: ||(:input password Password:) (:input submit value="Login!":)
  (:zapend:)
  [[#ID]]

  When I tried to login with the Member and password that I inserted in the Register form that is explained above,nothing happens.What is the problem with it and how do I solve it?

  In general I would like solutions to the above and a user management system as below.

  1)A new user registers using the Register form.After,he clicks on create account button.This prompts system to search if the username and password has already been used by another user.If this is so,the user receives a message that username and /or password already taken.If the username and password are not taken,the user gets message that the form is submitted and the data values he has entered are shown on the page.An e-mail with a default text that I would write is sent to the user’s e-mail address welcoming him as a member and showing his username and password.

  2)Immediately,after the user registers his account,he should be able to log in into the website.By,logging in the user should be able to edit existing pages and create new pages.He should also be able to log out.

  3)I also need a way of viewing the user records created and the ability to delete a user record.

  Please,look into my case above and reply to my mail as soon as possible with solutions to the situations stated above.Thanks in advance. 

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