[pmwiki-users] Author field and usernames problem

[Michele Cabano]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> If you just want PmWiki to allow any character in author names,
> you might try setting (note the leading space):
>
>     $AuthorNameChars = " -\\xff";
>
> Pm
>   

This solve my problem once for all!
I put this in config.php beetween authuser inclusion ( include_once(...) 
) and $Author setting.

Thanks for support Patrick.

> Yes -- In certain instances PmWiki automatically converts author 
> names into something that can be used as a valid pagename
> (by eliminating the dots and/or slashes).  But it shouldn't
> do this if you're explicitly setting the $Author variable --
> in that case PmWiki leaves the variable alone.
>
>   

Well... I don't understand why but this seems possible in my instance. :)
I'm not a Php developer, but, since the cookie is correctly set, it 
seems a conversion problem. I think the problem is not in setting the 
value in the variable $Author but in writing this value automatically in 
Author field: dots and slashes are keyword in Pmwiki language, so it is 
not so strange if this characters are unusable in author names.

> Note that the above only sets the author name when someone
> has logged in with a username and password -- if a person hasn't
> logged in the author names continue to work as before (i.e.,
> coming from a browser cookie).
>   

Thanks for the specification but I found the code you wrote is very clear.

Michele