Extension:RedirectOnAccountCreation

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RedirectOnAccountCreation Release status: stable
Description	Allows wiki administrators to redirect to a specific page after a user has created a new account
Author(s)	User:MaziminkeTalk
Last version	1.0 (01/12/2008)
MediaWiki	tested on 1.14a and 1.13.2
License	public domain
Download	see "Extension code"
Parameters $wgPageToRedirectAfterLogout
Hooks used AddNewAccount
Check usage (experimental)

This is an adaption of the RedirectOnLogin extension which allows you to redirect a user to a certain wiki page after having created a new account.

Compatibility

The extension was created for MW 1.14a and 1.13.2 and is currently untested on others. Nevertheless this extension should work fine on all mediawikis which support AddNewAccounthook and $wgOut->redirect().

Please update this page when you have tested the extension on other versions.

Tested on

• 1.14a
• 1.13.2
• 1.16.5 - Boris 14:05, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
• ... (please add other tested versions)

Extension call

Please add the following lines to your Localsettings.php file and adapt them:

//absolute path from web root
require_once("extensions/redirectOnAccountCreation.php");
 
//wiki page to redirect to (adjust path and page title)
$wgPageToRedirectOnAccountCreation = "/path_to_mediawiki/index.php?title=yourpage";

Extension code

Create a page at "extensions/redirectOnAccountCreation.php" with the following content and adapt:

<?php
//not called from the software -> show warning
if( ! defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
    echo( "This file is an extension to the MediaWiki software, and cannot be used standalone.\n" );
    die( 1 );
}
 
$wgExtensionCredits['other'][] = array(
    'name'=>'redirectOnAccountCreation',
    'version'=> '1.0',
    'author'=>'Marcel Minke', // [[de:user:Maziminke]]
    'url'=>'http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/extensions:RedirectOnAccountCreation',
    'description' => 'Redirect to a certain page after user has created a new account'
);
 
 
 
//wiki page to redirect to (adjust path and page title)
$wgPageToRedirectOnAccountCreation = "/path_to_mediawiki/index.php?title=yourpage"; 
 
$wgHooks['AddNewAccount'][] = 'redirectOnAccountCreation';
 
function redirectOnAccountCreation(&$user) {
        global $wgOut, $wgPageToRedirectOnAccountCreation;
        $wgOut->redirect( $wgPageToRedirectOnAccountCreation );        
 
        return true;
}

Similiar extensions

• Redirect
• RedirectOnLogin
• RedirectAfterLogout