[Mediawiki-l] disable skins changing? --- remove it from User Peferences?

[Roger Chrisman]

Alexis Moinet wrote:
> > Ideally I would like to completely remove or hide the Skin page
> > link/tab from User Preferences, too. Any Ideas how best to do that?
> > Maybe with CSS?
>
> go in *includes\SpecialPreferences.php* and comment the lines
>
> 		# Skin
> 		#
> 		$wgOut->addHTML( "<fieldset>\n<legend>\n" . wfMsg('skin') .
> "</legend>\n" ); $mptitle = Title::newMainPage();
> 		$previewtext = wfMsg('skinpreview');
> 		# Only show members of $wgValidSkinNames rather than
> 		# $skinNames (skins is all skin names from Language.php)
> 		foreach ($wgValidSkinNames as $skinkey => $skinname ) {
> 			if ( in_array( $skinkey, $wgSkipSkins ) ) {
> 				continue;
> 			}
> 			$checked = $skinkey == $this->mSkin ? ' checked="checked"' : '';
> 			$sn = isset( $skinNames[$skinkey] ) ? $skinNames[$skinkey] :
> $skinname;
>
> 			$mplink =
> htmlspecialchars($mptitle->getLocalURL("useskin=$skinkey"));
> $previewlink = "<a target='_blank'
> href=\"$mplink\">$previewtext</a>"; if( $skinkey == $wgDefaultSkin )
> 				$sn .= ' (' . wfMsg( 'default' ) . ')';
> 			$wgOut->addHTML( "<input type='radio' name='wpSkin'
> id=\"wpSkin$skinkey\" value=\"$skinkey\"$checked /> <label
> for=\"wpSkin$skinkey\">{$sn}</label> $previewlink<br/>\n" ); }
> 		$wgOut->addHTML( "</fieldset>\n\n" );

Nice. Working beautifully. Thanks you. And I have added this tip to 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Skins

Wait, that was probably not the best wiki to leave my note on. I'm 
confused. I should have put my help note on mediawiki.org and *not* on 
meta.wikimedia.org, right?

Roger :-)
http://Wikigogy.org/User:Roger -- MediaWiki 1.6.7