[Mediawiki-l] AuthPlugin examples for Single Sign-on?

[Ryan Lane]

> I've taken this example and tried to adapt it to my code. But when I
> call the function I've created that uses it, I get:
>
> Fatal error: Call to a member function ucfirst() on a non-object in
> /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/User.php on line 653
>
> My attempts at debugging seem to indicate that this happens when I
> call:
>
> $username = "TestUser";
> $u = User::newFromName($username);
>
> I looked at User.php, this is the section in question:
>
> 650        static function getCanonicalName( $name, $validate = 'valid'
> ) {
> 651                # Force usernames to capital
> 652                global $wgContLang;
> 653                $name = $wgContLang->ucfirst( $name );
>
> I don't really know where to go from here...
>

If you just need the part for creating the users, I know that the LDAP
plugin's auto-authentication code does this properly (well, properly
enough not to break). See the attemptAddUser function in:

http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAutoAuthentication.php?revision=68500&view=markup

V/r,

Ryan Lane