On 21/04/2008, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:

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Andreas Rindler wrote:

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we are trying to change the default skin for all users using the userOptions script and we get an error. Any idea how to resolve the error or change the skin user option for users with another method?

MW version: 1.11 Php: 5.1.6

Here is the command and the error:

[openm@machine maintenance]$ php userOptions.php -cli skin --old monobook --new mike2 PHP Warning: array_shift() [<a href='function.array-shift'>function.array-shift</a>]: The argument should be an array in /chroot/home/openmeth/openmethodology.org/html/mike2/w/maintenance/commandLine.inc on line 39 PHP Warning: reset() [<a href='function.reset'>function.reset</a>]: Passed variable is not an array or object in /chroot/home/openmeth/openmethodology.org/html/mike2/w/maintenance/commandLine.inc on line 49 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6 Content-type: text/html

It looks like you're running a CGI (web interface) version of PHP. This can behave a bit differently from the CLI (command-line interface) version; in this case it fails to register the command-line arguments as a global variable.

If you can't find a CLI version of PHP on your system (it might be called php-cli in some cases) you might or might not have luck by adding this line to maintenance/commandLine.inc, right before line 39:

$argv =& $_SERVER['argv'];

Also use the -q option on PHP to suppress the HTTP headers.

We ended up using phpMyAdmin. - export user table - replace all skin options with new skin name - import user table and overwrite

The import worked fine. But mediawiki ignored the new user option (skin=skinname) and defaulted all existing users to the classic skin. That seems to be a bug? Or maybe the export/import failed, although the table look fine.

We then removed all skins other than the new one and it now works fine. It was our ultimate goal anyway to remove all other skins, but we would have liked to this a bit more graceful...

Any ideas why the options are ignored?

We also found that only a third of the users had a value in the skin option. The rest was blank?! My understanding of the options blob was that (if specified in Localsettings.php) it gets filled with the default skin. Any thoughts?

Thanks, Andi