RE: [Phpwiki-talk] Issue with groups - config.ini: GROUP_METHOD = "DB"

[Charles C. <ch...@ru...>]

Reini Urban wrote:
> > Looking at the code in WikiGroup and in WikiUserNew, I think that
> > the user level should be tested before accessing the prepare
> > function. Something like
> > 
> > if $user->_level >= WIKIAUTH_USER {
> >     $this->_is_member = $user->prepare($DBAuthParams['is_member'],
> >                                            array('userid','groupname'));
> >     $this->_group_members =
> > $user->prepare($DBAuthParams['group_members'],'groupname');
> >     $this->_user_groups =
> > $user->prepare($DBAuthParams['user_groups'],'userid');
> >     $this->dbh = $user->_auth_dbi;
> > } else {
> >     $this->_is_member = false;
> > // I don't yet understand enough to do the rest of the else path
> > }
> > 
> > I hope that this helps...
>
> Nope. This is not the problem.
> ->prepare is done on first user initialization which is also needed
> for yet unauthorized users, just to get the group or prefs settings
> e.g.
>
> The authlevel is raised later, after trying several methods.

I put a debug line in just before the call to prepare

echo get_class($user), " name:", $user->username, " level:", $user->_level;

and in the output, I got

_anonuser name: level:0
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: prepare() in
/home/runega2/public_html/whitewall/lib/WikiGroup.php on line 627

This output appears to be reasonable as, from looking at the lines of code
immediately before, only if there is no existing user object is an empty
_PassUser object created in $user.  If there is an exiting user object then
its class does not have to be _PassUser and prepare is only defined for
_PassUser.  I will spend some more time looking at this to see if I can work
out how to patch

Regards,
Charles