PmWiki | Cookbook / LoginLogout

Summary: How to log out after logging in

Version: n/a

Prerequisites:

Status: Q&A

Maintainer:

Categories: Security, Administration

Questions answered by this recipe

If a user logs into a pmwiki, how does he log out?

Logging in and out

To log out use the site page action logout.

To enable this action add a link to the page, sidebar,

[[{$FullName}?action=logout|log out]]

log out

or add this action to the Site.Page Actions.

(:if enabled AuthPW :)
* %item rel=nofollow class=logout    accesskey='$[ak_logout]'%   
[[{*$FullName}?action=logout | $[Logout] ]]
(:ifend:)

Change the conditional markup as appropriate for the access authorisation level you logged in at.

Notes

Release Notes

Comments

To make this a little prettier, I created a page Main/LogOut which contains only:

(:redirect HomePage:)

then added this to local/config.php:

if (@$_GET['from']) {
  $page = PageVar($_GET['from'], '$FullName');
  if ($page == 'Main.LogOut') $PageRedirectFmt = '<h5><i>You have logged out.</i></h5>';
}

then placed this link in the sidebar:

(:if authid:)
[[Main/LogOut?action=logout | Log Out]]
(:ifend:)

Clicking on the link will then log you out, take you back to the homepage, and place the message "You have logged out." at the top of the page. And the "Log Out" link will only show when you're logged in.

Cheers.

~Joseph

Contributors

Simon