A thought: Use profile pages for individual settings

Just had a thought which I should share before going to
bed.

If we want to allow users/readers to have personal settings
(skin?), how 
about we store these in the users' profile page?

Perhaps it could be as simple as a line saying:

 	skin=cuteskin

in the page [[~chr]]. Then, when the user is identified as
'chr', the page 
Profiles/Chr is scanned for settings such as what skin that
user wants.

G'night
/Christian

Ps. I had the idea after I saw something in MediaWiki, where
I think they 
used a subpage to a profile page for setting user selectable
colours for 
something.

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christian.ridderstromgmail.com wrote:
> Just had a thought which I should share before going to
bed.
> 
> If we want to allow users/readers to have personal
settings (skin?), how 
> about we store these in the users' profile page?
> 
> Perhaps it could be as simple as a line saying:
> 
>     skin=cuteskin
> 
> in the page [[~chr]]. Then, when the user is identified
as 'chr', the 
> page Profiles/Chr is scanned for settings such as what
skin that user 
> wants.
> 
I plan to experiment with just that feature on a site I'm
working on 
now. The plan is for users to log in with a username, which
will also be 
the name of their profile page. By default the profile page
will be 
read-only, but there'll be a form recipe to to set
individual profile 
preferences.

So far all I've got set up is the $Author name which is
loaded from the 
profile (all links to users use the username, but display
the Author name).


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