Author: jeremybuchmann
Description:
Currently, MediaWiki has an AuthPlugin module that allows third-party developers
to easily write an extension to authenticate MediaWiki logins against another
database (like our intranet app). This is wonderful, but it'd be great to be
able to start a MediaWiki session when a user logs in to our app. That way, we
can include a link to our wiki site inside our app and the user doesn't have to
re-enter their username and password...they're already logged in.
I thinking of something like this (pretend this is the authentication code for
our app):
if ($username and $password are valid)
{
setCookie(our cookie);
// This eventually uses our AuthPlugin subclass which authenticates to our
intranet
// database
$mw_session = new MediaWikiSession($username, $password);
// This sets the MW cookie(s) and effectively logs the user into MW
if ($mw_session)
$mw_session->startSession();
else
...handle error...
}Thanks for reading.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement