Hi, we have been using the skin Cavendish on a MW 1.6.5 installation for a while. I would like to upgrade to 1.10.0 and get rid of Cavendish but there is no version of the skin availabe for 1.10.0. (unless someone knows a version of the skin that works with 1.1.0.0 including Mediawiki:Common.js edit toolbar). Cavendish is the default skin for everyone. I want to change the default skin for all users to a new skin. I have tested this and I am getting some interesting results.
1. I remove Cavendish.php and the cavendish folder under /skins 2. I add my new skin 3. I change $wgDefaultSkin to the new skin
All users who were on the default skin before get bumped to 'Classic' skin automatically and not to the new default skin. Any experienced user would just go and change their skin. But I have many users who will just think that the software broke and don't know what to do.
Does anyone know how to fix this gracefully?
Options I have looked at so far:
a) Exchange the skin files to the new skin but keep the old skin name.
b) Hack in the database on table user, field user_options. This is a blog, and I don't know yet how to 1) retrieve, change and save a blog object and 2) how to do this for a couple hundred users.
Any help is appreciated! We are planning to do a system upgrade this weekend.
Cheers, Andi
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On 13/07/07, Rindler, Andreas andreas.rindler@bearingpoint.com wrote:
b) Hack in the database on table user, field user_options. This is a blog, and I don't know yet how to 1) retrieve, change and save a blog object and 2) how to do this for a couple hundred users.
Er, blob, not blog. You might be able to use the maintenance/userOptions.php script to update the skin preference for all users...it will be present after the upgrade.
Rob Church
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From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Rob Church Sent: Fri 13/07/2007 11:46 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Change skin for all users
On 13/07/07, Rindler, Andreas andreas.rindler@bearingpoint.com wrote:
b) Hack in the database on table user, field user_options. This is a blog, and I don't know yet how to 1) retrieve, change and save a blog object and 2) how to do this for a couple hundred users.
Er, blob, not blog. You might be able to use the maintenance/userOptions.php script to update the skin preference for all users...it will be present after the upgrade. _______________________________________________
Thanks for the tip. I tried it but this error:
DB connection error: MySQL functions missing, have you compiled PHP with the --w ith-mysql option?
I looked around the included script files but couldn't find anything that would help me debug.
Here is the output from the command line:
D:\Apache2.2\htdocs\wiki110>php -cli maintenance\userOptions.php --list cols : 80 contextchars : 50 contextlines : 5 date : default editsection : 1 editsectiononrightclick: 0 enotifminoredits : 0 enotifrevealaddr : 0 enotifusertalkpages : 1 enotifwatchlistpages : 0 externaldiff : 0 externaleditor : 0 fancysig : 0 highlightbroken : 1 imagesize : 2 language : en math : 1 numberheadings : 0 previewontop : 1 quickbar : 1 rcdays : 7 rclimit : 50 rememberpassword : 0 rows : 25 searchNs0 : 1 searchlimit : 20 showjumplinks : 1 shownumberswatching : 1 showtoc : 1 showtoolbar : 1 skin : stubthreshold : 0 thumbsize : 2 underline : 2 uselivepreview : 0 variant : en watchlistdays : 3 wllimit : 250 Done.
D:\Apache2.2\htdocs\wiki110>php -cli maintenance\userOptions.php
This script pass through all users and change one of their options. The new option is NOT validated.
Usage: php userOptions.php --list php userOptions.php [user option] --usage php userOptions.php [options]?á<user option> --old <old value> --new <new va lue>
Switchs: --list : list available user options and their default value
--usage : report all options statistics or just one if you specify it.
--old <old value> : the value to look for --new <new value> : new value to update users with
Options: --nowarn: hides the 5 seconds warning --quiet : do not print what is happening --dry : do not save user settings back to database
D:\Apache2.2\htdocs\wiki110>php -cli maintenance\userOptions.php --old skin: --n ew skin:BearingPoint The script is about to change the skin for ALL USERS in the database. Users with option <> = 'skin:' will be made to use 'skin:BearingPoint'.
Abort with control-c in the next five seconds...0 DB connection error: MySQL functions missing, have you compiled PHP with the --w ith-mysql option?
I am running this on: Windows 2003
* MediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/ : 1.10.0 * PHP http://www.php.net/ : 5.2.1 (apache2handler) * MySQL http://www.mysql.com/ : 5.0.37-community-nt
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From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Rob Church Sent: Fri 13/07/2007 11:46 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Change skin for all users
On 13/07/07, Rindler, Andreas andreas.rindler@bearingpoint.com wrote:
b) Hack in the database on table user, field user_options. This is a blog, and I don't know yet how to 1) retrieve, change and save a blog object and 2) how to do this for a couple hundred users.
Er, blob, not blog. You might be able to use the maintenance/userOptions.php script to update the skin preference for all users...it will be present after the upgrade. _______________________________________________
Thanks for the tip. I tried it but this error:
DB connection error: MySQL functions missing, have you compiled PHP with the --w ith-mysql option?
I looked around the included script files but couldn't find anything that would help me debug.
Here is the output from the command line:
D:\Apache2.2\htdocs\wiki110>php -cli maintenance\userOptions.php --list cols : 80 contextchars : 50 contextlines : 5 date : default editsection : 1 editsectiononrightclick: 0 enotifminoredits : 0 enotifrevealaddr : 0 enotifusertalkpages : 1 enotifwatchlistpages : 0 externaldiff : 0 externaleditor : 0 fancysig : 0 highlightbroken : 1 imagesize : 2 language : en math : 1 numberheadings : 0 previewontop : 1 quickbar : 1 rcdays : 7 rclimit : 50 rememberpassword : 0 rows : 25 searchNs0 : 1 searchlimit : 20 showjumplinks : 1 shownumberswatching : 1 showtoc : 1 showtoolbar : 1 skin : stubthreshold : 0 thumbsize : 2 underline : 2 uselivepreview : 0 variant : en watchlistdays : 3 wllimit : 250 Done.
D:\Apache2.2\htdocs\wiki110>php -cli maintenance\userOptions.php
This script pass through all users and change one of their options. The new option is NOT validated.
Usage: php userOptions.php --list php userOptions.php [user option] --usage php userOptions.php [options]?á<user option> --old <old value> --new <new va lue>
Switchs: --list : list available user options and their default value
--usage : report all options statistics or just one if you specify it.
--old <old value> : the value to look for --new <new value> : new value to update users with
Options: --nowarn: hides the 5 seconds warning --quiet : do not print what is happening --dry : do not save user settings back to database
D:\Apache2.2\htdocs\wiki110>php -cli maintenance\userOptions.php --old skin: --n ew skin:BearingPoint The script is about to change the skin for ALL USERS in the database. Users with option <> = 'skin:' will be made to use 'skin:BearingPoint'.
Abort with control-c in the next five seconds...0 DB connection error: MySQL functions missing, have you compiled PHP with the --w ith-mysql option?
I am running this on: Windows 2003
* MediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/ : 1.10.0 * PHP http://www.php.net/ : 5.2.1 (apache2handler) * MySQL http://www.mysql.com/ : 5.0.37-community-nt
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And I tried the option where I manupilate the mySql data. The above options are stored as a blob in user_options. I changed one user's options in the database and logged in. The user prefences did not change. It looks like as if it was ignoring the values in the database?! How is that possible?
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On 7/13/07, Rindler, Andreas andreas.rindler@bearingpoint.com wrote:
From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Rob Church Sent: Fri 13/07/2007 11:46 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Change skin for all users
On 13/07/07, Rindler, Andreas andreas.rindler@bearingpoint.com wrote:
b) Hack in the database on table user, field user_options. This is a
blog, and I don't know yet how to 1) retrieve, change and save a blog object and 2) how to do this for a couple hundred users.
Er, blob, not blog. You might be able to use the maintenance/userOptions.php script to update the skin preference for all users...it will be present after the upgrade. _______________________________________________
Thanks for the tip. I tried it but this error:
DB connection error: MySQL functions missing, have you compiled PHP with the --w ith-mysql option?
I looked around the included script files but couldn't find anything that would help me debug.
Here is the output from the command line:
D:\Apache2.2\htdocs\wiki110>php -cli maintenance\userOptions.php --list cols : 80 contextchars : 50 contextlines : 5 date : default editsection : 1 editsectiononrightclick: 0 enotifminoredits : 0 enotifrevealaddr : 0 enotifusertalkpages : 1 enotifwatchlistpages : 0 externaldiff : 0 externaleditor : 0 fancysig : 0 highlightbroken : 1 imagesize : 2 language : en math : 1 numberheadings : 0 previewontop : 1 quickbar : 1 rcdays : 7 rclimit : 50 rememberpassword : 0 rows : 25 searchNs0 : 1 searchlimit : 20 showjumplinks : 1 shownumberswatching : 1 showtoc : 1 showtoolbar : 1 skin : stubthreshold : 0 thumbsize : 2 underline : 2 uselivepreview : 0 variant : en watchlistdays : 3 wllimit : 250 Done.
D:\Apache2.2\htdocs\wiki110>php -cli maintenance\userOptions.php
This script pass through all users and change one of their options. The new option is NOT validated.
Usage: php userOptions.php --list php userOptions.php [user option] --usage php userOptions.php [options]?á<user option> --old <old value> --new <new va lue>
Switchs: --list : list available user options and their default value
--usage : report all options statistics or just one if you specify it. --old <old value> : the value to look for --new <new value> : new value to update users withOptions: --nowarn: hides the 5 seconds warning --quiet : do not print what is happening --dry : do not save user settings back to database
D:\Apache2.2\htdocs\wiki110>php -cli maintenance\userOptions.php --old skin: --n ew skin:BearingPoint The script is about to change the skin for ALL USERS in the database. Users with option <> = 'skin:' will be made to use 'skin:BearingPoint'.
Abort with control-c in the next five seconds...0 DB connection error: MySQL functions missing, have you compiled PHP with the --w ith-mysql option?
I am running this on: Windows 2003
MediaWiki <http://www.mediawiki.org/> : 1.10.0PHP <http://www.php.net/> : 5.2.1 (apache2handler)MySQL <http://www.mysql.com/> : 5.0.37-community-nt==================================
And I tried the option where I manupilate the mySql data. The above options are stored as a blob in user_options. I changed one user's options in the database and logged in. The user prefences did not change. It looks like as if it was ignoring the values in the database?! How is that possible?
Caching possible, try a force reload of the preferences page.
-Andi
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