[pmwiki-users] RSS & password-protected pages

[Mike]

Hi Patrick,

Patrick R. Michaud wrote on 16.10.2006 18:06:
> Unfortunately, many RSS readers don't have a convenient way to provide 
> authorization information for feeds.  The best we can do at present
> is to provide it in the URL.
> 
> Since you're using AuthUser, you'll want the following near
> the top of your local/config.php (before loading the authuser.php script):
> 
>     if (@$_GET['authpw']) $_POST['authpw'] = $_GET['authpw'];
>     if (@$_GET['authid']) $_POST['authid'] = $_GET['authid'];
> 
> This allows authorization information to come from urls as well as
> forms.  Then, in the RSS feed url, use:
> 
>     http://www.example.com/pmwiki?action=rss&authid=username&authpw=password


brilliant, thanks. It works great!

Two more questions:

First, I need to generate the RSS feed url dynamically on my page. The
username part I can do via {$AuthId}, but I couldn't find a way to do
the same with the password. I know that I can define custom variables in
the code, but does the PHP code actually know the clear-text password,
is there a variable for it somewhere?

Second, just out of curiosity and since I couldn't find that as well -
what exactly is the purpose of the "@"-sign in the code above? To
reference the array?

Thanks,
Mike