[Mediawiki-l] Sessions

[B. Magilavy]

Hello,

I am trying to integrate Mediawiki 1.4.9 into an existing site, with 
one log-in for both, which I want to be the main-site log-in. The 
wiki is in a subdirectory of the main site. 

What I have done so far to integrate the two:

As a query string, my main log-in sends the variables that 
SpecialUserLogin.php expects from its own form. (The POST requirement 
for processing in SpecialUserLogin.php has been disabled; the check 
for POST was already done in the main site log-in.); 

I have added the handler $wgHooks['UserLoginComplete'][] = 
array('addtosessions', $loginreturnto) to add the necessary main site 
variables to the session. [Once I get it working, I'll come back to 
the case of an incomplete login.]

I have $wgUseMemCached = false; although I found that the session 
would not survive the first wiki page-change without my commenting 
out, in User.php, the code:

function SetupSession()
...
		/*if( $wgSessionsInMemcached ) {
			require_once( 'MemcachedSessions.php' );
		} else */
...		

This works fine, as long as I stay in the wiki directory. However, 
whenever I leave the wiki directory to go back up to the main site or 
to look at edit help at the mediawiki site, and come back again, I 
have lost my wiki session. Is there a save routine and/or a session 
object that I cannot find, that needs modification?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you very much,
Beryl Magilavy
Avalon Internet
email: bmagilavy at avalon-internet.com
web: http://avalon-internet.com
Telephone: +1 415-864-2089