[MediaWiki-l] Auto-login

Hi,

I want to log a user into our wiki if they are logged into our website.

I assume that I need to use the UserLoadFromSession hook, but at this point in the code, the MW session is already active. Does it make sense to close the MW session, configure & start my website session in order to access the user ID, and then re-open the MW session using wfSetupSession(), or is this not recommended?

I see that some people access their website username from another cookie, but I'd like to avoid this if possible.

This is the rough idea that seems to be working, I think:

$wgHooks['UserLoadFromSession'][] = function($user, &$result) { // Check if the user is already logged into MW. // How do I do this???

// Close MW session. session_write_close();

// Configure website session. session_name('x'); session_save_path('x'); ini_set('session.cookie_domain', '.x'); session_start();

// Check if user is logged in to website. if (isset($_SESSION['Zend_Auth'])) { $userId = (int)$_SESSION['Zend_Auth']['storage'];

// Close website session. session_write_close();

// temp, look up username in DB. if ($userId == 123) { $username = 'xyz'; }

$user = User::newFromName($username);

// Log user in. $user->setToken(); $user->saveSettings(); wfSetupSession(); $user->setCookies(); } else { wfSetupSession(); }

return true; };

I'm not sure if this is the best option, and also how to bypass this code if the user is already logged into the wiki.

I also need to auto-create an account for users without MW accounts, but I think I can use $user->addToDatabase() for that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Glen.