Extension:CustomUserCreateForm

require_once($IP."/extensions/customUserCreateForm/customUserCreateForm.php");

<?php
/**
 * Replace the standard user create form with a custom form 
 *
 * Installation: Create a folder named customUserCreateForm in your extension folder.
 * Create a new file named customUserCreateForm.php in the above folder and paste this code into the file.
 * Create a folder named templates inside the customUserCreateForm folder you created above
 * Make a copy of includes/templates/UserLogin.php in extensions/customUserCreateForm/templates/
 * Rename the copy of UserLogin.php to customUserlogin.php
 * Within the new customUserlogin.php file rename UsercreateTemplate class to customUsercreateTemplate.
 * Edit customUsercreateTemplate class as you require.
 * Add the line below to the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file.
 * Decide if you do not wish to allow non-Sysops to create user accounts via E-mail 
 * and delete the highlighted lines of code if so.
 * 
 * require_once($IP."/extensions/customUserCreateForm/customUserCreateForm.php");
 *
 * @author Matthew Vickery
 * @version 1.0
 */
 
$wgHooks['UserCreateForm'][] = 'customUserCreateForm';
 
function customUserCreateForm($template) {
 
                // include the request global so we can grab the return page from it
                global $wgRequest ; 
 
                // grab the return to page if this exists
                $mReturnTo = $wgRequest->getVal( 'returnto' );
 
                // Grab data from the existing template before we destory it when creating a new template
                $tempData = $template->data ;
 
                // include our custom create account template
                include( 'templates/customUserlogin.php' );
 
                // create a new template object using the custom template
                $template = new customUsercreateTemplate();
                $q = 'action=submitlogin&type=signup';
                $linkq = 'type=login';
                $linkmsg = 'gotaccount';
 
                // if there is a return to page adjust relevant links
                if ( !empty( $mReturnTo ) ) {
                        $returnto = '&returnto=' . wfUrlencode( $mReturnTo );
                        $q .= $returnto;
                        $linkq .= $returnto;
                }
 
                // add the old template data to the new template
                foreach ($tempData as $key => $value) {
                        $template->set( $key, $value ) ;
                }
 
                /* * *
                 * SPECIAL CASE
                 * ------------
                 * The following two lines of code allow non-Sysops to create accounts via E-mail
                 * This is functionality I want to implement on my Wiki
                 * Remove these lines if you want only Sysops to create accounts via E-mail
                 * (Sysops only is the default MediaWiki configuration)
                 * * * * * * */
                global $wgEnableEmail ; 
                $template->set( 'createemail', $wgEnableEmail );
 
                // unset the temporary data var
                unset ($tempData) ;
 
                return true ;
}
 
$wgExtensionCredits['other'][] = array(
        'name'        => 'customUserCreateForm',
        'version'     => '0.1',
        'author'      => 'Matthew Vickery',
        'url'         => 'http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CustomUserCreateForm',
        'description' => 'Replace the standard user create form with a custom form'
);