[pmwiki-devel] Login and function PmWikiAuth

[marc]

marc said...
> Hi,
> 
> I prefer to use a login form in the sidebar - just username and password 
> - along with authuser and authuserdb. This works fine except  when an 
> invalid login occurs. In this case $AuthPromptFmt is opened in the main 
> page.
> 
> This look a bit odd, because there are then two login prompts on the 
> page: one in the sidebar and one on the main page.
> 
> What I am trying to achieve is to retain the main page unchanged, and 
> simply report login/page access errors in the sidebar form.
> 
> I can see that this is handled by the last lines of PmWikiAuth(), but 
> can't think of a way to change this in situ to do what I want.
> 
> Is the best way to copy PmWikiAuth() with appropriate changes, and point 
> to it via $AuthFunction? Or, more likely, am I way off base? 

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Please let me know if I've not explained the issue well enough. 

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Best,
Marc