Missing File "authentication.php"

[Daniel Farnan]

Hi, all.

I'm trying a sample in v11 and used the assistant to generate a site. I have noticed that the "error.php" file has a function Authenticate() and the body of that function has the line

include "authentication.php";

but this file is not found in the folder with the other php files. A reasonably lengthy Google search has not shown much in the way of useful information, but I did see a snippet in a pdf covering FMSA v9 that the file is generated by the assistant.

What gives?

Mac OS X v10.5, FMSA v11.0.1.99

[Daniel Farnan]

After much further investigation, the clue was in the help file for the PHP Site Assistant: if the [Guest] account has the PHP access extended privilege set, you will not be prompted by the assistant to enter login details - and the "authentication.php" file will not be generated.

I suspect that the assistant automatically adds the extended privilege to all privilege sets with an active account but am too lazy to test that right now. :getlost: