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

[Platonides]

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.
> 
> What file should I start looking at to try and change this?

You want to add a sublclass of AuthPlugin (includes/AuthPlugin.php).