[pmwiki-users] meaning of "=protectsafe" (was: (:pagelist:) broken ...)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:23:56PM +0200, ThomasP wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 16:10, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> (II):
> > Another approach I could use is that pagelist and other functions assume
> > that a page has a password unless $page['=passwd']['read'] is explicitly
> > set to an empty string.  Then authorization functions that don't set
> > $page['=passwd']['read'] will still work properly (but perhaps reduce
> > the amount of caching that gets performed).
> 
> I think (II) makes sense if you also know a solution for
> $page['=auth']['read']. Then really all auth modules will automatically
> work. (Besides of UA2 I know of UserAuth and AuthPhpBB2(?) only.)

The current structure of things pretty much requires that custom
authorization functions correctly return $page['=auth']['read'].
Otherwise some recipes and other code items that rely on this
simply aren't going to work properly.  If that's a big issue we
can see about migrating to something easier to implement, but
as things stand now there are a number of things relying on
$page['=auth'].

Pm