I need a way to get the user's name and password to obtain an "edit"
token to use with api.php for a form that will be a special page in an
extension.* I'm doing this as a volunteer for the FSF, so any advice
would be much appreciated ;)
I'm not much with php, but I tried testing this based on what I could
glean from Manual:Special_pages and includes/User.php:
function execute($par) {
global $wgOut, $wgUser;
$tmp = $wgUser->mCacheVars['mName'];
$wgOut->addWikiText("$tmp");
}
However, this results in:
Undefined property: User::$mCacheVars
in /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions/TestExt/TestExt_body.php on line 12
Ie, I seem unable to access any of the variable or functions that are
part of User although the User object is recognized. What am I doing
wrong?
* further clarification: the extension needs to include a special page
for adding new pages to the wiki (the pages have a fairly complex
format including Semantic mark-up that the user should not need to
understand) but these need to be 1) restricted to privileged users, 2)
be added via the special page/form->api.php including the real,
specific user who added the page.
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