[Phpwiki-talk] User registration (was: PHPGW plugin)

[Jeb B. <je...@oc...>]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:09:02PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote:
> > can you keep us posted on your progress?
> 
> Will do.  I think the PHP triad of Wiki/Nuke/Groupware will be a
> killer combo.

Yeah, I've been moving in this direction too.  (I'm using Wiki
actively, have Groupware installed, and might install Nuke shortly.)

The one thing that bothers me about many of these tools is the lack of
capability for combined registration / authentication.  We need some
kind of SQL based auth plugin that other packages can use optionally,
(instead of their own built in auth table).  Ideally, the login ID
used should be an email address, per Jacob Nielson's suggestion,
because it's guaranteed to be unique, and easy to remember.

Does anyone know of a project that is addressing this?  If not,
perhaps we can think about it for the new auth features of PhpWiki?

> With it, you will have a complete intranet solution, and also a great
> community forum.

Another fairly polished piece of php/MySQL code is phpBB, which I just
installed for another site, and of course has its own auth system too.
http://phpbb.com

I think that kind of forum is useful for sites that don't want to make
their home page a rolling weblog of articles and discussion like
Nuke/K5/Slashdot.  (Instead, they can setup a dedicated discussion
area covering persistent topics of their choice...)

-jeb