On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:23:10 +0000 mediawiki-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Message: 3 Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:29:19 +0200 From: Platonides Platonides@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Getting User Data in Extension To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: i4pn7q$sm7$1@dough.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
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.
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..
Just to clarify: the special page will be a form. The fields correspond (approximately) to the structure of the pages in the wiki, for example, here the page listing mediawiki itself:
http://directoryng-dev.fsf.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Nb, this information appears outdated (lol) but don't bother creating a user to correct it (yet) as the site is still in development. Anyway, if you view the source you'll notice the page uses more than a dozen templates (one megalithic template was not flexible enough) and a similar number of Semantic properties, and I want to spare the user these details. So the form data will be processed to create a page. You say I do not need to access api.php to do that, therefore I don't need to password to get an "edit" token, etc -- how would I go about that?
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.
Yes, if I understand that correctly, it is done with group privileges. However, I still need to be able to attach the *specific user* to the creation of the page (there may be a separate database for that or just embedded comments, not sure yet).
- 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)
Okay, I guess this is sort of re-iteration, but how would a special page "directly insert the article" -- keeping in mind it needs to return form data to a php script on the server for processing which will add the MW + Semantic markup? Again, I do not want to require the user to learn the templates, or the chance to screw them up, etc., so it cannot be a simple "create page".
MK wrote:
Just to clarify: the special page will be a form. The fields correspond (approximately) to the structure of the pages in the wiki, for example, here the page listing mediawiki itself:
http://directoryng-dev.fsf.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Nb, this information appears outdated (lol) but don't bother creating a user to correct it (yet) as the site is still in development.
Wow, that information is way old. Not even one of the external links is right (although some addresses are probably still accepted). Note that the mediawiki version used is not the latest one (you are using 1.15.1, you should use 1.16.0 or 1.15.5).
Anyway, if you view the source you'll notice the page uses more than a dozen templates (one megalithic template was not flexible enough) and a similar number of Semantic properties, and I want to spare the user these details. So the form data will be processed to create a page. You say I do not need to access api.php to do that, therefore I don't need to password to get an "edit" token, etc -- how would I go about that?
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.
Yes, if I understand that correctly, it is done with group privileges. However, I still need to be able to attach the *specific user* to the creation of the page (there may be a separate database for that or just embedded comments, not sure yet).
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Okay, I guess this is sort of re-iteration, but how would a special page "directly insert the article" -- keeping in mind it needs to return form data to a php script on the server for processing which will add the MW + Semantic markup? Again, I do not want to require the user to learn the templates, or the chance to screw them up, etc., so it cannot be a simple "create page".
Calling Article::doEdit() It would look similar to this:
$title = Title::newFromText( $wgRequest->getVal( 'title' ) ); $article = new Article( $title ) $text = '{{FSWhead|short=' . $wgRequest->getVal( 'short' ) . '|full=' . $wgRequest->getVal( 'full' ) . '|home=' $wgRequest->getVal( 'home' ) . "}}"; $article->doEdit( $text, "Special page edited article" );
Article::doEdit() has a user param, but if it is not provided, it will automagically use the user which submitted the form to the special page.
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