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This is an old revision of PageCloaking made by BrianKoontz on 2006-04-27 13:50:04.
Page Cloaking
Wiki pages that are not readable by the current user (or guest) should not have their tags displayed in links, indexes, or other lists. While some wiki purists may cringe at the idea of "information hiding," please keep in mind that page cloaking works in conjunction in ACLs, so those same purists will already have a gripe about ACLs, which means the issue has already been hashed and rehashed.
The basis of page cloaking is simple: Verify that a page is visible (readable) to the current user. If it is not, then not only should the page not be displayed, but the page tag (title) itself shouldn't appear either. This isn't meant as a security feature, but rather a feature of convenience: Users shouldn't have to be tempted by pages they do not have access to.
There are two approaches to this problem, both of which rely on a few extra functions in wikka.php:
