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Status/Roadmap

In progress.

Overview

Various improvements to site flow and provision of information, with particular emphasis on error pages, the login cycle and HTTP headers information.

Style guidelines

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Access checking

Check for access in this order:

  1. check if feature is enabled
  2. (if anonymous access is not permitted) check isset($user)
  3. check permissions


Rationale: No point in telling a user they aren't logged in, only to then tell them that the feature is disabled when they try again after they are logged in. isset($user) can be thought of as a generic permission - we check more generic (catch-all) permissions first, working towards the more specific ones for optimisation purposes.

Variables

$errortype - not set (default) or 404 for a "not found" error page
$errortitle - the title to use at the top of the error box in the centre column
$headtitle - (part of) the title to use in the browsers' title bar.

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Trackers/Todo

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  • provide alternative layouts for error pages, search pages (committed), modules and login pages
  • check every use of location, referer and error.tpl
  • provide login box redirection for !$user
  • try harder to find the right document or part of site on invalid URL / HTTP 404
  • no-cache for installer and other temporary pages
  • 404 headers for installed



Code

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Discussion/Participation

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