API:Account creation/pre-1.27

Creating new User Accounts
NOTE: This feature has not been implemented, and probably won't be in the immediate future; this page is simply a draft made by Vodafone in 2007.

RegUser operation allows to create a new account for a user in the MediaWiki Server by passing specific information such as the name, password, domain and email. In the same way as form Login action, sensitive parameters must be passed by POST form.

Sample request and result: Request api.php ? action=reguser Request Post Parameters: runame=Raquel rupassword=vodafone [ rudomain=wikipedia.com] [ ruemail=raquel.frisa@vodafone.com] [ rucaptachid = ]		''Identified of captcha image. Mandatory whenever the ConfirmEdit extension is installed.'' [ rucaptchaword= ] 	       ''Captcha value. Mandatory wheneverthe ConfirmEdit extension is installed.'' In case of Captcha Extensions is installed and these two parameters, rucaptchaid and rucaptchaword are not included in the request, the result will be “MissingCaptcha”.

When Captcha Extension is installed, the first request will result this response:

Response: api: reguser: result: CaptchaIdGenerated 		Other values: Exists, Blocked, ReadOnly, BadToken, NoName, EmptyPass, CaptchaIdGenerated, MissingCaptcha… captchaId: “1241959345”			Captcha Identifier captchaURL: “/wiki/index.php?title=Especial:Captcha/image&wpCaptchaId=1241959345” When Captcha Extension is not installed or after the second attempt of action reguser, the result will be the following:

Response: api: reguser: result: Success			Other values: Exists, Blocked, ReadOnly, BadToken, NoName, EmptyPass, CaptchaIdGenerated, MissingCaptcha, etc. token: 123ABC			Also returned as a cookie username: Raquel                    Normalized runame, also returned as a cookie userid: 12345		       Also returned as a cookie Internally, there are two options to create a new user account:
 * A logged in user creates a new account. In that case, after performing the action regUser, MediaWiki Server keeps logged in the user with the initial login.
 * An anonymous user creates a new account. After performing the operation successfully, the anonymous user will be then logged with the new login name.  That is the reason why a token and user id is returned after this operation