All changes to groups should happen through this interface.
public function setUpGroupNamespaces()
{
global $wgExtraNamespaces, $wgNamespacePermissionLockdown, $wgNonincludableNamespaces;
if (!$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown || !$wgNonincludableNamespaces) {
throw new \Exception('To use the Group Namespace Feature you need to install Lockdown (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockdown)');
}
$nsCount = 200;
$groups = $this->groupmanager->findGroups();
foreach ($groups as $group) {
$nsName = 'NS_SF_GROUP_' . $group->getId();
$nsNameTalk = $nsName . '_TALK';
define($nsName, $nsCount++);
define($nsNameTalk, $nsCount++);
$groupName = $group->getName();
$groupName = strtolower($groupName);
$groupName = str_replace(array(' ', ',', '.', '-'), '_', $groupName);
$groupName = ucfirst($groupName);
# add new namespaces
$wgExtraNamespaces[constant($nsName)] = $groupName;
$wgExtraNamespaces[constant($nsNameTalk)] = $groupName . '_talk';
#restrict "read" permission to logged in users
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[constant($nsName)]['read'] = array(self::getGroupAlias($group));
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[constant($nsNameTalk)]['read'] = array(self::getGroupAlias($group));
#prevent inclusion of pages from that namespace
$wgNonincludableNamespaces[] = constant($nsName);
$wgNonincludableNamespaces[] = constant($nsNameTalk);
}
}
/**
* Returns a specific principal, specified by it's path.
* The returned structure should be the exact same as from
* getPrincipalsByPrefix.
*
* @param string $path
* @param bool $getObject
*
* @return array|GroupInterface|UserInterface|void
*
* @throws Exception
*/
public function getPrincipalByPath($path, $getObject = false)
{
$name = str_replace('principals/', '', $path);
// get username from path-string, if string contains additional slashes (e.g. admin/calendar-proxy-read)
if (!(strpos($name, '/') === false)) {
$name = substr($name, 0, strpos($name, '/'));
}
$user = $this->user_manager->findUserByUsername($name);
if ($user === null) {
if (!$this->group_manager) {
return;
}
// search in group-manager
$group = $this->group_manager->findGroupByName($name);
if ($group === null) {
return;
}
if ($getObject === true) {
return $group;
}
return $this->getPrincipalArray($group, true);
}
if ($getObject === true) {
return $user;
}
return $this->getPrincipalArray($user, true);
}
