Week of 09/20/04
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 | YACS adds security to RSS syndication - We would like to use some specific RSS feed to monitor YACS servers. But this requires at least to authenticate news readers.
No problem, HTTP Basic Authentication is supposed to be easy to implement. According to the PHP documentation, you just have to look at two variables to get user name and password.
Unfortunately, these two variables will always be empty if PHP runs on the CGI interface.
Does this mean that users cannot be authenticated at some PHP sites? No! The solution is to find another way to retrieve credentials into PHP.
Actually what is really needed is the support of the mod_rewrite Apache module, and the ability to add some directives into the .htaccess file.
» Link updated on Sep. 24 2004 In The capability |
 | September 22 - RSS everywhere, and more - YACS now uses RSS for searches, for server monitoring, for comments, and for full content distribution!
Any search request can be transformed as a customized RSS feed, available directly from the search page.
The YACS main log has been transformed to a RSS feed as well, to let associates monitor one or several sites in parrallel. The challenge here has been to implement basic authentication to better ensure that only associates can access the feed.
Advanced bloggers will benefit from RSS that now include full article content, and from RSS feeds for comments. » Edited on Sep. 23 2004 In Releases |
 | How to create a button from an image?
- You can add any number of buttons to a page. All you have to do is to add links to uploaded images.
» Published on Sep. 20 2004 In Authoring |
