Extension talk:PageHistoryRealnames

Recent Changes
Hi - any reason why this works on page history and not on Recent Changes? Great extensions - thanks. --Robinson Weijman 15:44, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

I messed up
I believe to have followed the instructions. But the result was frightening: not only the source code showed up before the wiki content, but the desired result didn't show up.



Mediawiki 1.9.3, not production.

--Cybermandrake 14:00, 27 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I figured out my mistake: I've downloaded the description files with a PHP extension! Corrected now. --Cybermandrake 14:48, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

How to return real name of user Preference
I would like to get the realname from LDAP server instead of local user table. I had retrieve LDAP Preferences. $wgLDAPPreferences = array( "TESTAD"=>array( "email"=>"mail","realname"=>"cn","nickname"=>"sAMAccountName","language"=>"preferredLanguage") ); How to return user realname attribute in LDAP to the PageHistory?

Broken in 1.20.x
When I tried to upgrade to 1.20, the history page didn't show up at all, showing a SQL error instead:

I tweaked the wfPageHistoryRealnamesQuery function as shown below:

and the history page reappeared. I didn't stumble in any undesirable impact so far, so I share this 2¢.

--Cybermandrake (talk) 17:33, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Fix for Mediawiki 1.19
I don't know about 1.20, but I managed to get this to work on 1.19 by changing a regular expression in PageHistoryRealnames.php

under the function wfPageHistoryRealnamesLineEnding, find the line with the regular expression (preg_match). change the regex to:

/^(.*mw\-userlink[^>]*>)([^<]*)(<\/a\b[^>]*>)(.*)$/

and then it should work.

Fix for 1.21.x
Along with User:Cybermandrake's changes noted above you must also comment out line 50 in PageHistoryRealnames.php where this extension calls for wfLoadExtensionMessages('PageHistoryRealnames');

It is reduntant in 1.21 and will throw an error.

(I wish I had the chops to update this extension. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable can step up.)

Fix for 1.23.x
I used fix for 1.20 + 1.19 + 1.21 and change table definition to this:

Update
I just updated the PageHistoryRealnames.php with the above suggested edits. It's working now for 1.25wmf5, but might not on older wikis.

Confirmed working on 1.26.2
This extension working as expected on current stable version (1.26.2). Just FYI Ibutakov.smartec (talk) 13:04, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed working on 1.27.0
^^

Current state
Note that this extension isn't maintained since ver 0.2 was made 17. Dec 2009. Jeblad (talk) 09:40, 26 November 2016 (UTC)