MK wrote:
> I need a way to get the user's name and password to obtain an "edit"
> token to use with api.php for a form that will be a special page in an
> extension.* I'm doing this as a volunteer for the FSF, so any advice
> would be much appreciated ;)
>
> I'm not much with php, but I tried testing this based on what I could
> glean from Manual:Special_pages and includes/User.php:
>
> function execute($par) {
> global $wgOut, $wgUser;
> $tmp = $wgUser->mCacheVars['mName'];
> $wgOut->addWikiText("$tmp");
> }
>
> However, this results in:
>
> Undefined property: User::$mCacheVars
> in /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions/TestExt/TestExt_body.php on line 12
>
> Ie, I seem unable to access any of the variable or functions that are
> part of User although the User object is recognized. What am I doing
> wrong?
$mCacheVars isn't what you think it is. And even if it did, you
shouldn't be accesing it directly anyway, you would get fields not yet
loaded, etc.
To get the user name, do:
$tmp = $wgUser->getName();
You can't get the user password. It's not stored in plaintext anywhere.
Just this points that you are trying to solve the wrong half mof the
problem.
And still, getting the token inside mediawiki wouldn't need having the
user and password...
> * further clarification: the extension needs to include a special page
> for adding new pages to the wiki (the pages have a fairly complex
> format including Semantic mark-up that the user should not need to
> understand) but these need to be 1) restricted to privileged users,
No problem. You can require a right in order to use that Special Page.
Take a look at how other restricted special pages do it.
> 2) be added via the special page/form->api.php including the real,
> specific user who added the page.
Who added this requisite? The special page runs inside mediawiki, it can
directly insert the article, why would it need to go via api.php? (look
at FauxRequest if you still want to go this rout, but it seems the wrong
one)
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