[Mediawiki-l] $user->isLoggedIn()

[Jim Hu]

Thanks.  I was coming to that conclusion myself, so I decided to use  
the UserLoginComplete and UserLogout hooks to record login/logout  
activity in a tmp directory that is accessible to the blog.  Advice  
on the security issues created by this approach is welcome!!

Jim

On Aug 31, 2007, at 4:47 PM, DanTMan wrote:

> file_get_contents won't ever work with sessions because it's the  
> server
> getting contents, not the client's computer. So the session would be a
> single server session.
> User::isLoggedIn() was meant to be used with $wgUser, as in. You're
> logged in if "$wgUser->isLoggedIn();" returns true. It's not meant to
> detect if an other user is logged in, because that's a technical
> impossibility. Since you're including the WebStart, perhaps you should
> try using $wgUser.
>
> ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of The Gaiapedia, Wikia Graphical  
> Entertainment Project, and Wiki-Tools.com
>
> Jim Hu wrote:
>> Spoke too soon.  The test script responds to being logged in or
>> logged out, but calling it from a different script using
>> file_get_contents isn't working.
>>
>>
>> On Aug 31, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Jim Hu wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It looks like detecting login may be even easier.  I'm seeing stuff
>>> in $_REQUEST that may work without even adding scripts to the wiki.
>>>
>>> JH
>>>
>>> On Aug 31, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Jim Hu wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Aug 31, 2007, at 2:09 PM, Minute Electron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 8/31/07, Jim Hu <jimhu at tamu.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  From what I can tell, $user->isLoggedIn() tells whether a user
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>> All users regardless of whether they are logged in or not have a
>>>>> user
>>>>> ID (anonymous == user id 0) so the only check that needs to be
>>>>> made is
>>>>> whether the user id is a positive integer.
>>>>>
>>>>  From what I can tell, $user->isLoggedIn returns the userid in the
>>>> database, but
>>>> $_SESSION['wsUserID'] behaves as you describe, changing from 0 to 1
>>>> and back when I log in or out.
>>>> Interestingly, it seems to not care if I'm viewing the wiki from
>>>> different browsers, while MW itself recognizes them as different
>>>> sessions.  I think I can live with that.
>>>>
>>>> Now I just have to get the blog to be able to send a logout to both
>>>> itself and the wiki, which I'm guessing I can do by overwriting
>>>> $_SESSION['wsUserID'].
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> JH
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> MinuteElectron.
>>>>> http://my.brlcad.org/~MinuteElectron/
>>>>>
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Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054