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Change the login link in MediaWiki

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 September 2010

As usual I have searched the WWW but I obviously don't how to use Google because I couldn't find an answer. My situation is this:

We have an internal wiki knowledge base using MediaWiki version 1.14.
Some articles are available for public, some are restricted to staff and different localgroups.
When users click on the 'Login' link, we want the system to automatically prompt them for their username/password. (Kerberos authenticated, as opposed to NTLM authenticated).
Note: This article is displaying how to change the link and not how to setup these authentication methods.

Open your skin file /skins/.php. Look for and change the following lines:

<div class="portlet" id="p-personal">
<h5><?php $this->msg('personaltools') ?></h5>
<div class="pBody">
<ul>
<?php foreach($this->data['personal_urls'] as $key => $item) { ?>
<li id="<?php echo Sanitizer::escapeId( "pt-$key" ) ?>"<?php
if ($item['active']) { ?> class="active"<?php } ?>><a href="/<?php
echo htmlspecialchars($item['href']) ?>"<?php echo $skin->tooltipAndAccesskey('pt-'.$key) ?><?php
if(!empty($item['class'])) { ?> class="<?php
echo htmlspecialchars($item['class']) ?>"<?php } ?>><?php
echo htmlspecialchars($item['text']) ?></a></li>
<?php } ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

<div class="portlet" id="p-personal">
<h5><?php $this->msg('personaltools') ?></h5>
<div class="pBody">
<ul>
<?php foreach($this->data['personal_urls'] as $key => $item) { ?>
if (($key!="login")&&($key!="logout")&&($key!="anonlogin")) {
<li id="<?php echo Sanitizer::escapeId( "pt-$key" ) ?>"<?php
if ($item['active']) { ?> class="active"<?php } ?>><a href="/<?php
echo htmlspecialchars($item['href']) ?>"<?php echo $skin->tooltipAndAccesskey('pt-'.$key) ?><?php
if(!empty($item['class'])) { ?> class="<?php
echo htmlspecialchars($item['class']) ?>"<?php } ?>><?php
echo htmlspecialchars($item['text']) ?></a></li>
<?php }
}
if($this->data['loggedin']==1) {
echo '<li id="pt-logout"><a href="/index.php?title=Special:Userlogout&returnto=Special:MainPage" title="Log Out">Log out</a></li>';
} else {
echo '<li id="pt-login"><a href="/wiki/Special:UserLogin?returnto='.trim($_GET['title']).'" title="You are encouraged to log in; however, it is not mandatory [alt-o]" accesskey="o">Log in</a></li>';
} ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

What does this do?

Excludes displaying system login, anonymous login or logout links in personal toolbar
Add a list item linking to your own login page (in this example the default one as ours is Kerberos_Login) with login or logout link.

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Change the login link in MediaWiki