[Phpslash-devel] Re: user accounts

[Joe S. <joe...@us...>]

Moved this portion from the -users list

Since we haven't had much discussion of user accounts, this might be good.

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:14:45PM -0800, Seth Hall wrote:
> 
> Hmm, I'm not following you here.  Are you talking about the way that I'm 
> querying for the user name?  I've noticed the migration to pulling the 
> commenter's name from the user account, but I've been keeping some 
> modifications for my site(where i don't plan on adding user accounts in 
> the same you you guys are).  
>

You can still let users change the name in the comment form, the default 
value will be stuffed is all.

Can you expand on what you're needing for user accounts?  Or what you 
don't like now?
 
> As an idea, the way that I'm going to implement user accounts on my site 
> is to give people the option to create an account, but the only thing that 
> it gives them is a way to leave leave a comment that everyone knows came 
> from that them.  It'll just stop people from making comments as another 
> person.  I think I'm going to just put a little icon beside their name in 
> the comment if the person is using an authenticated account and if other 
> people leave comments with that name, it will not have the icon so that 
> everyone will know that it was not the same person.  Hmm... I think I'm 
> rambling.
> 

Still thinking on this one...

My thought was to not allow someone to change their name to an existing 
name.

Either way there has to be a lookup to check the name against a username 
doesn't it?  My way wouldn't allow a mismatch, yours would allow it, just 
not display an icon.  Is that right?

I'd like input from others on this too.

thanks,

Joe

> I'll send an email here when/if I implement it so that you can see what 
> I'm talking about.
>