Setting a restriction (the second constructor parameter) will force your SpecialPage to be listed underneath the Restricted special pages list on Special:Specialpages, but if you override the execute() method in your child class, this will be insufficient to stop someone from actually using the page, assuming they know the URL.

To really prevent access, you should do something like this:

class YourSpecialPage extends SpecialPage { ... function execute( $par ) { global $wgUser; if ($this->userCanExecute($wgUser)) { global $wgOut; # To show the "permission required" page if the person doesn't have the 'whatever' permission: $wgOut->permissionRequired( 'whatever' ); # OR, to show an error page as though the SpecialPage doesn't exist at all (sneaky) $wgOut->showErrorPage( 'errorpagetitle', 'nospecialpagetext' ); return false; } }

Good luck!

-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Grabovský Matěj 65s.mg@atlas.cz wrote:

Hello. You can overload constructor of your Special page (more on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Special_pages#Constructor). So you can use this:

SpecialPage::SpecialPage('YourSpecialPageName', 'sysop');

in the constructor of your special page class.

-Matěj Grabovský

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Od: Christian Schneider Přijato: 28.3.2008 9:55:47 Předmět: [Mediawiki-l] How to block Special Pages for non-Sysop Users?

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Can anyone tell me how I can block the Special Pages for all user

which are not sysop?

Thanks

Christian Schneider

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