Re: [Bug-gne]API

[Hook]

Tom Chance wrote :
> >As far as the delete thing:
> >
> >No deleting, just adding new articles, retrieving read-only, and possibly
> >checking status of to-be-moderated submissions.
>
> But how will we stop somebody simply writing their own perl script to
insert
> an article? Can we lock the db somehow so that it cannot accept delete
> statements, and requires a certain password or authentication to insert?
> We don't want people to be able to add articles as and when they wish
> otherwise we lose the point of moderators etc.

If you're using MySQL it's trivial, and built into the permissions system -
haven't you tried it yet?

The Hooker