AuthMoodle
From MoodleDocs
AuthMoodle.php
- an extension of mediawiki's AuthPlugin class so that moodle users can sign in to a mediawiki with the same login/pw
- used in this https://docs.moodle.org mediawiki production site
- download from http://moodle.org/file.php/5/moddata/forum/366/196104/AuthMoodle.php
- first posted by Martin Dougiamas in april 2006 in http://moodle.org/mod/forum/post.php?reply=196104 as an attachment
quoting Martin's instructions based on the root folder of the wikimedia installation:
Save it in extensions/AuthMoodle.php. Then you just put this in LocalSettings.php:
require_once( 'extensions/AuthMoodle.php' );
$wgAuth = new AuthMoodle();
$wgAuth->setAuthMoodleTablePrefix();
$wgAuth->setAuthMoodleDBServer('yoursite.org');
$wgAuth->setAuthMoodleDBName('yourdb');
$wgAuth->setAuthMoodleUser('yourdbuser');
$wgAuth->setAuthMoodlePassword('yourdbpass');
Bugs with AuthMoodle in mediawiki 1.7
- preferences are no longer sticky (they pretend to save but don't really save)
fix: disable this if in includes/SpecialPreferences.php around line 290:
/*
if (!$wgAuth->updateExternalDB($wgUser)) {
$this->mainPrefsForm( wfMsg( 'externaldberror' ) );
return;
}
*/
- if the moodle database prefix is different from the mediawiki database prefix must match (or be blank)
fix: edit the function tableName in includes/Database.php around line 1310 and 1313:
function tableName( $name ) {
global $wgSharedDB, $wgAuth;
# Skip quoted literals
if ( $name{0} != '`' ) {
if ( $this->mTablePrefix !== && strpos( '.', $name ) === false
&& strpos ($name, $wgAuth->mAuthMoodleTablePrefix) === false ) {
- for mediawiki 1.7, I had to change line 33 to includes/AuthPlugin.php and comment out line 223-226 (refers to a non-existent function)
Useful Information
- bugtracker conversation leading to creation of AuthMoodle http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=4666
- usage info: https://docs.moodle.org/en/MoodleDocs:Authentication
- based probably on http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/auth/
