User Home Page Add-On

This addon just provide a new small script bin/userhomepage, that you can call as a target of HTML links to provide a direct button/link to a user TWiki home page

Usage

Use it as link to %SCRIPTURL%/userhomepage, eg:

<a href='%SCRIPTURL%/userhomepage%SCRIPTSUFFIX%'>Your TWiki account</a>

<form action='%SCRIPTURL%/userhomepage%SCRIPTSUFFIX%'>
    <input type=submit value="Your Home Page">
</form>

Add-On Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this add-on. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the add-on on the server where TWiki is running.

• Download the ZIP file from the Add-on Home (see below)
• Unzip UserHomePageAddOn.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:
  data/TWiki/UserHomePageAddOn.txt	Plugin topic
  bin/userhomepage	Add-on script

• Require authentification for the userhomepage script. e.g, in apache, edit the bin/.htaccess file to add:
  <Files "userhomepage">
    require valid-user
  </Files>
• Test if the installation was successful: Clicking on either of the following link or button should bring you to your home page
  • Your TWiki account

Plugin Info

• Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Provide a direct button/link to a user TWiki home page

Related Topic: TWikiAddOns

-- ColasNahaboo - 13 Jun 2003