[Phpwiki-talk] Re: phpwiki / WikiUser

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Dan schrieb:
> I'm not sure if its zorloc or yourself who is doing the most work 
> on WikiUser in the CVS, but I had a few questions.

it's me.

  > http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/WikiUser -> dated in
> 2001, says "there aint so such thing as setters and getters for 
> User preferences yet"

this is not true anymore.

> The CVS code is obviously far more up to date, but doesn't 
> exactly make it clear how to get and set preferences (despite, 
> for all appearances, providing such functionality)
> 
> Would it be possible to get WikiUser->getPreferences() &  
> WikiUser->setPreferences() documented or at least an example 
> of its use?

Please see WikiUserNew.php. WikiUser.php is not supported anymore and 
I'd love to delete it.

WikiUser->getPreferences() gets the pref object which should be attached 
to the user object (and for legacy reasons to the request object also).
WikiUser->setPreferences() updates this object, but the legimitate use 
is request->_setUser() only, because the request object, the session and 
cookie have to be updated also.

> I must admit I'm kind of lost following it (*sigh*).

pref->get(type) and pref->set(type,value) are self-documenting.
set only sets the object, not the storage.

since the storage methods are userobject specific (session, homepage or 
database), you have to call pref->updatePrefs(prefs) and then 
WikiUser->setPreferences().

> Another thing - when deploying PEAR packages for PHPwiki 
> Plugins, whats the go there? The CVS does include a /pear/ 
> dir, but does this mean I have to include my pear packages 
> there? Can I do something else? If I do incluide them, what 
> environment vars should i be setting?

we had our own pear since the quality of pear was not enough and a lot 
of too old versions were around. esp. for DB.

now pear matured, and we use lib/pear optionally, if you don't have your 
own pear in the include_path.
only pear/File_Passwd.php is better than the standard pear, we force 
that. but there are still remaining problems with file locking (stale 
locks) on updates.

> I hope I haven't flooded your inbox with noobish questions

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