Hi All,

I am trying to customise the Special:Preferences page to remove tabs and change certain form fields. My amendments are relatively simple to achieve but editing includes/SpecialPreferences.php. However I would rather use an extension and keep the core code intact. I have tried using the SpecialPageExecuteBeforePage hook, but this seems not to work as expected (see my extension code below). The following note in the core code, includes/SpecialPage.php, stating that the SpecialPageExecuteBeforePage hook needs to be fixed: # FIXME: these hooks are broken for extensions and anything else that subclasses SpecialPage.

If this hook is not due to be fixed soon will someone please offer another way to amend the Special:Preferences page without hacking the core code?

My extension code:

$wgHooks['SpecialPageExecuteBeforePage'][] = 'CustomUserPreferencesPage';

function CustomUserPreferencesPage($specialpage, $par, $func) {

// Check if this hook has been called from the correct page if ($specialpage->mName == 'Preferences') {

global $IP ;

$specialpage->file($IP . "/extensions/CustomUserPreferencesPage/templates/CustomSpecialPreferences.php") ;

}

return true ; }

Many thanks in advance,

Matthew

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