Extension:ForceLogin

MediaWiki extensions manual

ForceLogin Release status: unmaintained
Implementation	MyWiki
Description	Forces login on Edit action of a page and redirects user back to the edit page on login.
Author(s)	Kuldeep Ghogre, Manit Hirani (manithiranitalk)
Latest version	1.0 (2013-02-06)
MediaWiki	1.23+
PHP	5.3+
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	See the code section
Hooks used AlternateEdit
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The ForceLogin extension forces login on Edit action of a page and redirects user back to the edit page on login.

Installation

• Copy the code into a file and place the file(s) in a directory called ForceLogin in your extensions/ folder.

• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:

  require_once "$IP/extensions/ForceLogin/ForceLogin.php";
  

•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Code

ForceLogin.php

<?php
/**
 * ForceLogin extension
 * @file ForceLogin.php
 * @version 1.0
 * @author Manit Hirani (manithirani)
 * @author Kuldeep Ghogre
 * @link https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ForceLogin
 * @license GPL-2.0-or-later
 */

if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
	exit;
}
	
$wgExtensionCredits['other'][] = array(
       'path' => __FILE__,
       'name' => 'ForceLogin',
       'author' =>array('Manit Hirani','Kuldeep Ghogre'),
       'description' => 'Redirects to login page on edit action',
       'url' => 'https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ForceLogin',
       'version'  => 1.0,
       'license-name' => 'GPL-2.0-or-later'
       );

$wgHooks['AlternateEdit'][]='redirectOnEdit';

function redirectOnEdit($editPage){
	global $wgUser, $wgOut, $wgTitle, $wgScriptPath;
	if(!$wgUser->isLoggedIn()){
		$wgOut->redirect($wgScriptPath.'/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto='.$wgTitle.'&returntoquery=action%3Dedit');
	}
	return true;
}