OO hhhhhhhh Coding

Tim — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:00:00 +0000

Over the last day or two I’ve been looking into ‘Object Oriented’ code, for some reason it has this myth around it that it’s hard to learn or understand, or at least this has always been the feed back from other developers I know.

Think about OO. it’s really nothing more than a set of classes that contain variables and functions working together as one, I know it’s a little more intricate than that, but basically that’s what it is. It’s OO code that can truely bring your scripts to life allow you to compete with other major languages available in a more level playing field.

May the OO be with you!!

Disable edits from unregistered users in MediaWiki

Tim — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:24:55 +0000

One the latest projects we’ve been working on involves the use of the fantastic open source wiki named MediaWiki, more commonly known by the end user as the WikiPedia, well the developers that make WikiPedia kindly release the code separately for people to use.

Anyway I was looking for a way to restrict anonymous editing, and it seem when I was searching for the following terms I could find what I was looking for:

Restrict MediaWiki editing

Restrict MediaWiki anonymous editing

Restrict WikiPedia Editing

Restrict editing of wiki to registered members only

Restrict Media Wiki To registered users only

And the list goes on.

Anyway for those seeking the same solution, it’s actually very easy to implement.

Open up your localsettings.php and the following lines of code where you wish.

# Restrict editing of wiki to registered users

$wgGroupPermissions[’*'][’edit’] = false;

That’s just telling the wiki that edits from anonymous * users is not allowed.

Hopefully this will save someone some time.

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OO hhhhhhhh Coding

Disable edits from unregistered users in MediaWiki