[Mediawiki-l] Making media wiki use different user database

[Brion Vibber]

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Richard Hordern wrote:
> Hello, I am trying to integrate media wiki with my forum so all my forum 
> members can access the wiki.
> 
> This is what I would like to do :
> 
> Use the forum subscription form for my wiki. I want to disactivate the 
> wiki subscription page and only use the forum's one and tell the wiki to 
> connect to the forum's database in order to authenticate.
> 
> I see that there is already a PHPBunn system and that there is a paying 
> system to do this with IPB, however I wish to do this hopefully simple 
> hack myself so I do not have to pay an annual fee.

There's an AuthPlugin interface; take a look at includes/AuthPlugin.php
for the skeleton base class and some of the other implementations out there.

- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
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