I guess I've tried setting the authorizations in DBman every which I can, but I can't get the "allow
new users to sign up" to work. The database seems to work, but I don't get any links for someone
to sign up and get a userID and password.

try it at:
http://htmlsitedesign/cgi/db/database.cgi?db=original

here is the cfg file, hope someone can help:


ID => [0, 'numer', 5, 8, 1, '', ''],
Title => [1, 'alpha', 40, 255, 1, '', ''],
URL => [2, 'alpha', 40, 255, 1, 'http://', '^http://'],
Type => [3, 'alpha', 0, 60, 1, '', ''],
Date => [4, 'date', 12, 15, 1, &get_date, ''],
Category => [5, 'alpha', 0, 255, 1, '', ''],
Description => [6, 'alpha', '40x3', 500, 0, '', ''],
Validated => [7, 'alpha', 0, 3, 1, 'Yes', 'Yes|No'],
Popular => [8, 'alpha', 0, 3, 0, '', ''],
Userid => [9, 'alpha', -2, 15, 0, '', '']
);


# Authorization Options
# --------------------------------------------------------
$auth_no_authentication = 0; # was 0, orig
$auth_time = 21600; # 6 hours (in seconds)

$auth_logging = 1;
$auth_allow_default = 0; # was 0, orig
@auth_default_permissions = (1,0,0,0,0);
$auth_signup = 1;
@auth_signup_permissions = (1,1,1,1,0);
$auth_modify_own = 0; # this was 0, orig - maybe get signup now
$auth_view_own = 0;
$auth_user_field = 9;

In your html.pl file in both
sub html_login_form and sub html_login_failure

After:

<TR align=center><TD colspan=2><INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" name="login" VALUE="$submit_button"> &nbsp; &nbsp; <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" NAME="logoff" VALUE="$reset_button"></TD></TR></TABLE></CENTER></FORM><P>

Add:

|;
if ($auth_signup) { print qq|<CENTER><$font><B>You can sign up for an account by <a href="$db_script_url?db=$db_setup&signup_form=1">Clicking HERE</a></B>.</font></CENTER><P>|;
}

You can also add a link your your html footer to the signup form.

Hope this helps


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Lois, thanks for the pointer in the right direction. The code you supplied didn't quite work either, but after going over and over it, I just quit for a while and had a Pepsi. Then it hit me, what you turn off ( |; ) you have to turn back on to finish printing out the page. So simply added a print qq| after your last " } " to finish out the html page and it worked perfectly.

Thanks zillions !!!!