Author: h-j.luecking

Description:
MediaWiki 1.71
Function initialiseFromUser( &$userInput ) {
Line 4591

$this->mEditSection = true;

meaning imho that by default the possibility to edit section is set to
true. I think this is a reason why in LocalSettings.php

$wgDefaultUserOptions['editsection'] = 0

does'nt work (It did not in my wiki).

In MediaWiki 1.46 you can find the line.

$this->mEditSection = $user->getOption( 'editsection' );

Here the possibility to edit section is defined by LocalSettings.php.

I used this lines for my purpose

if ($user->getID()) {
   $this->mEditSection = $user->getOption( 'editsection' );
} else {
   $this->mEditSection = 0;
}

by Zigger, from (http):
mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2004-November/002099.html

HeinzJ

Version: 1.7.x
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