[Pmwiki-users] query to verify if user is "logged on" as editor

Knut Alboldt mailing
Tue Oct 12 12:23:51 CDT 2004


At 19:13 12.10.2004, you wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 03:07:38PM +0200, Knut Alboldt wrote:
> > how can I query (e.g. in config.php) whether a user is logged on as an
> > editor, i.e. is a user authorized to edit the displayed page (v1 and v2) ?
>
>if (RetrieveAuthPage($pagename,'edit',false)) {
>    # user is authorized to edit
>} else {
>    # user is not yet authorized to edit
>}
>
>This will generally not work if you're using HTTP-based authentication,
>because browsers typically send authentication information only in
>response to a request for it.  It should work with session-based
>authentication, however.  It will work especially nicely under v2's
>session-based authentication, which keeps track of all of the passwords
>entered during a particular browsing session (instead of just the most
>recent one).
>
>Pm

That's fine. I'm switching over to v2 anyway.

Thnaks !

Knut





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