[dokuwiki] Re: showing author name on every page

  • From: Helge Kaltenbach <helgekaltenbach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:26:28 +0200

Bob McConnell wrote:
> Helge Kaltenbach wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> can someone tell me how I force my wiki to show the author name on every
>> page? Currently you can't add any pages to the wiki, if your not
>> logged in.
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> thanks in advance
>> helge
> 
> I did that to our company wiki a while ago. I had to replace the
> function in the page footer that shows the last changed date and user ID
> with a function that looks up the user name and inserts it in place of
> the ID. However, that still requires the user be logged in when updating
> the page, otherwise it won't know what user ID or name to insert. In our
> case, the wiki will allow anyone to view pages, but you have to log in
> before you can edit or add pages. We tried it the other way, but it was
> not possible to map the IP addresses to users, since the DHCP server
> doesn't always give everyone the same IP and a few machines that were
> being used are shared by several users.
> 
> I can't access that wiki from home, but can post my changes when I get
> back to the office on Tuesday.
> 
> Bob McConnell
> N2SPP

Sounds great, waiting till Tuesday then, thanks!

helge
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