[dev] locked prefs and overrides SOLVED

[Brook Davis]

Jan Schneider was nice enough to answer my question elsewhere, so I thought I'd post the response for the sake of thread closure:

Sorry for the noise.  Thanks Jan!

>As a user, I had previously set purge_folders to 0.  Then, as an 
> administrator, I set it to 1 and locked it (always run purge folders) 
> in the prefs.php file.  For some reason, the prefs function returns 
> my user-set value, but also that the preference is locked.


That's the expected behavior.


> > So, my question is:  Is it the responsibility of the administrator to 
> > clear out these preference values from the preference storage 
> > backend, then lock, or is there a reason why the user preference 
> > value overrides the one set and locked by the administrator in the 
> > prefs.php file ?
>   

Yes and yes. The reason is that you might want to set different values for
different users but still keep them from changing it.


> > Is it the programmer's responsibility to wipe out 
> > old values after the preference is locked, or is this not advisable ?
>   

Correct.