[midgard] Ideas to dramatically increase nb of Midgard users

2000-08-24 Thread Jean-Philippe Brunon
Hello, Discussing with Ron and others, we came to the conclusion that there have been a number of cascading factors which caused and still cause Midgard not being as widely used as it could be. (by user, I mean any kind of individual : developer, webmaster, ...) Any input to

Re: [midgard] Ideas to dramatically increase nb of Midgard users

2000-08-24 Thread Philipp Rotmann, Linksystem Muenchen
Hi folks, On 24.08.00 (11:00), Jean-Philippe Brunon wrote: Step 1. : Finding the www.midgard-project.org site. A. OpenSource Languages/tools "standards": B. OpenSource products directories: C. Search engines: D. OpenSource news sites (...) One category of

Re: [midgard] Ideas to dramatically increase nb of Midgard users

2000-08-24 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
Jean-Philippe Brunon wrote: Step 2. : Once on the Midgard site, the potential user must: A. Quickly understand what Midgard really is (the summaries or articles the user can read during step 1. are very important too) and how it can help him/her. Very important. I looked Midgard at

Re: [midgard] Ideas to dramatically increase nb of Midgard users

2000-08-24 Thread parker
Hi, I'd like to additionally stress the point of finding the betas and their release notes etc. -- I imagine there must be a lot of people like me, who need new features and know enough about Linux and Midgard to work with betas even in production environments but hesitate to download CVS

[midgard] self-registration

2000-08-24 Thread Jochen Lillich
Hi, I'm working on a Midgard site that provides user self-registration. mgd_create_person needs authentication, though, and therefore doesn't work. Is there a way of letting the visitor create his own personal account yet? Or is there still only the choice between messing with the database

Re: [midgard] self-registration

2000-08-24 Thread Silas Martinez
Hi - I'm interested in the same functionality - I /could/ do it with phplib and sql calls, but I'd rather do it with native (to midgard) method Anybody have any input on this? Jochen Lillich wrote: Hi, I'm working on a Midgard site that provides user self-registration.

Re: [midgard] Some Newbie Questions

2000-08-24 Thread Chen Shiyuan
Quoting Emiliano [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chen Shiyuan wrote: Hmmm... what I was thinking of is if it is possible for Migard to accept whatever username/password that the web server has authenticated. Not impossible, but not trivial. For one, the user database would need to have

Re: [midgard] self-registration

2000-08-24 Thread John-Andrew Minniti
I think one suggestion was to create a user that has proper permission to create other users for your sitegroup. Then call that user with mgd_auth_midgard, and have that user create the new user. But someone with more talent w/Midgard can fill you in but that's how I've considered doing

Re: [midgard] Some Newbie Questions

2000-08-24 Thread Emiliano
Chen Shiyuan wrote: Cos what I was thinking of is along the line of :- 1. Apache will authenticate the user by some means. The problem is that there's no way to tell apache that a certain URL needs auth from within a module. The only way to force auth is to have it in the apache config file

Re: [midgard] self-registration

2000-08-24 Thread Emiliano
Jochen Lillich wrote: I'm working on a Midgard site that provides user self-registration. mgd_create_person needs authentication, though, and therefore doesn't work. Is there a way of letting the visitor create his own personal account yet? Or is there still only the choice between

Re: [midgard] Authentication Problems

2000-08-24 Thread Emiliano
Vincent QUERU wrote: I'm encountering problems with the mgd_auth_midgard function (I'm currently using v1.4b3) : the cookie is correctly sent to my browser but when I close Netscape and relog on to the site, I need to enter my username/password again, just as if the cookie had not been set.

Re: [midgard] Ideas to dramatically increase nb of Midgard users

2000-08-24 Thread Alan Knowles
We are currently working on a flash movie to demostrate the 'concepts' behind using midgard, along with a flash tutorial to take a user through creating a site - I have no idea on a completion date though.. We are also on the final bug fixing of the latest framed admin release, It has alot of