Gossamer Forum: Products: DBMan: Customization: User name keeps popping into a field

Jun 18, 2003, 6:23 AM

kaykills

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Jun 18, 2003, 6:23 AM

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User name keeps popping into a field

I searched all of the posts and the only thing I could try was to re-do the database from scratch.

I have one field that when ever i type in information into it, it always get overwritten with the username that i am using when i search for it afterwards. Does anyone know a fix or has anyone ever experienced this before?

Jun 19, 2003, 6:06 AM

joematt

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Jun 19, 2003, 6:06 AM

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Since it is the user name specifically, I will hazard a guess that the setting in the config file points to the wrong field.

Code:
# Auth user field. This is the field position in the database used for storing 
# the userid who owns the record. Set to -1 if not used. 
    $auth_user_field    = 9;

This happened to me when I added a field in the middle of the database and forgot to change the field number for the Auth user field. Please recall that field numbering starts at 0.

Jun 19, 2003, 6:56 AM

kaykills

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Jun 19, 2003, 6:56 AM

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so what yo uare saying is that if it doesn't matter what user posts the record, then i can set it to -1 and my problem should go away?

Jun 19, 2003, 10:18 AM

joematt

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Jun 19, 2003, 10:18 AM

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Change it to -1, sure if you do not need to know who owns the record, yes that is fine.

Just don't plan on using these other 2 options as they require a userID somewhere in the record.

Code:
# Registered users: can modify/delete _only_ own records. For this to make 
# sense you should set default off or to 1,0,0,0. 
    $auth_modify_own    = 0; 

# Registered users: can view _only_ own records. For this to make sense 
# you should turn off default permissions. 
    $auth_view_own      = 0;

I suggest you keep track of who owns the record, have a field to store the owner's userID and set the value correctly.

But then I'm just wierd that way. Crazy

Do what ever you want. Smile