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$wgUserAccountEmailRequired
[edit]- MediaWiki version: 1.8.2
I was trying to require an e-mail address and thought a simple variable could be added to accommodate this need in a generic way.
- LocalSettings.php
$wgUserAccountEmailRequired = true;
- Mod's made to the login to require e-mail address - includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php:
251 if ( $wgUserAccountEmailRequired ) { 252 if (!$this->mEmail) { 253 $this->mainLoginForm( wfMsg( 'noemailonsignup' ) ); 254 return false; 255 } elseif (! User::isValidEmailAddr( $this->mEmail ) ) { 256 $this->mainLoginForm( wfMsg( 'invalidemailonsignup' ) ); 257 return false; 258 } 259 }
- Here's the error message - languages/messages/MessagesEn.php :
694 'noemailonsignup' => 'An email address is required to sign up.', 695 'invalidemailonsignup' => 'A valid email address is required to sign up.',
Restrict a User's e-mail address by Pattern
[edit]I also wanted the ability to have users create their own accounts, but limit it to certain domains. To accommodate this, I had to change the User::isValidEmailAddr method to take check to see if a variable was set. If it is, then it should be an array and it should contain regular expression to match on.
- Here's the change I made to includes/User.php:
365 function isValidEmailAddr ( $addr ) { 366 global $wgUserAccountEmailPattern; 367 $valid = false; 368 if ( $wgUserAccountEmailPattern ) { 369 foreach ($wgUserAccountEmailPattern as $regex) { 370 $re = '/^' . "$regex" . '$/'; 371 $valid = preg_match( $re, strtolower($addr)); 372 if ( $valid ) { 373 break; 374 } 375 } 376 } else { 377 $valid = ( trim( $addr ) != '' ) && (false !== strpos( $addr, '@' ) ); 378 } 379 380 return $valid; 381 }
- Example LocalSettings.php to restrict addresses to *@gmail.com & *@yahoo.com :
$wgUserAccountEmailPattern = array( '.*@gmail\.com', '.*@yahoo\.com' );
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