[phplib] PHPLib Page Entry Behavior From: Dennis Gearon (gearond <email protected>)
Date: 09/08/00

I followed the instructions of:

>"R.B. Scholtus" <regiment <email protected>>
and added the following line to the "Example_Session":
>this line counts:
> var $allowcache = "no"; ## "passive", "no", "private", "public"

That solved a lot of problems. Probably only in browsers that have the
correct behavior though.

What I see as entry behaviors for a couple of the example pages I'd like
to have explained.

1/ When a user has a plain vanilla session, and enters the
'defauth.php3' or 'showoff.php3'(login) pages PHPLib says, "BAD DOG!
What, you think already having just a session is enough?! Your session
is not authorized for this page Nyah Nyah!"

----Actually, it says:
#Permission denied
#
#Your session a4bfd26fa88176f4f4c793123b5a4ac8 has been authenticated
with a user id of #nobody and a user name of
#(unknown).
#
#To access this page, the following permissions are required: admin.
#I won't let you access this page, because you have these permissions: .

Why not just ask the user for a login, update his session if it's
successful and give him the page he wants, or give him a "BAD DOG"
message and then return him to the page he came from (IF HTTP_RFERRER is
valid)?

Can this behavior be changed to the one I am mentioning by extending
classes? 

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