Extension:NewUserMessage.php

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1. Extension:NewUserMessage

These are the MediaWiki extensions we're using and/or developing. Please refer to the information on the mediawiki.org wiki for installation and usage details. Extensions here which have no corresponding mediawiki article are either not ready for use or have been superseded. You can also browse our extension code in our local Subversion repository or our GitHub mirror.

1. - Licenced under LGPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html)
2. - Author: User:NadCategory:Extensions created with Template:Extension
3. - Started: 2007-10-15

if (!defined('MEDIAWIKI')) die('Not an entry point.');

define('NewUserMessage_VERSION','1.0.0, 2007-10-15');

$wgNewUserMessageTemplate = 'MediaWiki:NewUserMessage';

$wgHooks['AddNewAccount'][] = 'wfCreateNewUserMessage'; $wgExtensionCredits['other'][] = array(

       'name'        => "NewUserMessage",
       'author'      => "User:Nad",
       'description' => "Add a message to newly created user's talk pages",
       'url'         => "http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NewUserMessage",
       'version'     => NewUserMessage_VERSION
       );

1. Add the template message if the users talk page doesn't already exist

function wfCreateNewUserMessage($user) {

       global $wgNewUserMessageTemplate;

$name = $user->getName(); $talk = $user->getTalkPage(); if (!$talk->exists()) { $article = new Article($talk); $article->insertNewArticle('{'.'{'."$wgNewUserMessageTemplate|$name}}",false,false,true,false); } return true; } ?>