[Mediawiki-l] Additional User Attributes

[Lane, Ryan]

You can put your code into the "updateUser" function in your auth
plugin. If you are using the AutoAuthenticate hook, you'll need to call
that function specifically from that hook both when you create users and
when you log them in. If you want an example of how to do it, you can
look at my plugin:

http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=814

V/r,

Ryan Lane

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-
> bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dan Davis
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:28 AM
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Additional User Attributes
> 
> OK, I know that I've seen information on doing what I am about to ask,
> but,
> for the life of me, I can't seem to locate any of it!
> 
> I handle authentication of users through a corporate SSO portal. This
> portal
> supplies me with information about the user beyond what is normally
stored
> in the MW database. What I'd like to do is define additional fields in
the
> MySQL database to store some of this info. The user need not ever see
it,
> so
> there should be no reason to update the Preferences page, or any other
> page,
> for that matter.
> 
> I think I can handle updating the MySQL table, but what I need
guidance
> on,
> is (1) how do Iupdate these new fields via my authentication plugin?
And,
> (2) how do I access these fields from other pages? Specifically, I
want to
> access them from Special:Listusers. I'm sure I can update the SQL
> statement
> in getSQL(), but not sure where to edit the code to retrieve the new
field
> from the result.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Dan
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