The Case of the Missing 'Author' fields?!

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 9:44 am

Hmmm, anyone notice that for a good portion for the Keenspace Guide entries, the author part is missing?

Currently mine reads:
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The Jaded
By

Last Update: 20031203
First Comic: 20030325
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Not only that, but in the SiteAdmin2 menu, the option to edit authors is gone too.

Here's a screenshot of the old menu

http://thejaded.keenspace.com/workshop/ ... inMenu.jpg

And in the new one, it's simply missing.

Hmm...

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 12:52 pm

I think it's happened to a lot of sites. I know for mine it was fine until my site disappeared off keenspace for a couple weeks; when it returned I couldn't add an author at all.

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 1:17 am

Yeah, same here. Just curious, did you edit your author info before that?
I did, and it got deleted. And I heard someone didn't and it didn't.

Right now I live in fear, because the tiniest glitch, and my password goes wrong, and I have no way of getting another one. (no author-no e-mail

)

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 9:43 am

I haven't touched my author field and it's fine. I was browsing through the guide and noticed others with the same problem so it's not specific to any one or two comics.

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:08 am

Nope. I've never touched it. If fact, I didn't even notice it was gone until recently.

MysteriousAges · Post by **MysteriousAges** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 12:29 pm

siteadmin2 has never shown it for me. Only siteadmin test ever has.

Platypus · Post by **Platypus** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 3:31 pm

MysteriousAges wrote:siteadmin2 has never shown it for me. Only siteadmin test ever has.

Well mine is still there wether I try it from siteadmin2 or siteadmintest. I have edited it a few times from siteadmintest. There are however a few problems as some of my older work show my old username instead of the new one although I have rebuilt all the pages.

MysteriousAges · Post by **MysteriousAges** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:01 pm

Even when I use the siteadmintest version, it claims I'm not logged in even though I can use the other tools just fine. I suspect it may have something to do with cookie authentication... but that part of Perl isn't my forte...

Post by **Kisai** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 12:46 am

I'm moving all the user-stuff to PHP, not because I'm sick of perl, but because stuff I want to do I can't do with Perl without maintaining a stack of libraries and I can do it in PHP just as fast, if not faster, plus PHP has session management and persistant db connections... thus I can throw that horrible monster of authentication away and replace it with something easier to maintain.

The Perl implementation of the client utilities was originally supposed to be in PHP, but I wrote stuff in Perl before I learned MySQL so I ported stuff to MySQL functionality.

Now I'm rewriting the client-end side of the utilities in php so it's easier to maintain... just maybe we'll see a new newsbox. I can in THEORY make it work right now, but there is no way for users to change it.

MysteriousAges · Post by **MysteriousAges** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 10:40 am

I can wait.

Good luck with that Kisai! ^__^