Force email confirmation in Mediawiki 1.9

Before proceeding to this article, have you tried the following links?

• $wgEmailConfirmToEdit
• $wgEmailAuthentication
• Extension:SpecialForm

If non of the above answers the problem, you may try this solution.

How to check if a registered user has confirmed his registration email? Here is a simple modification I made. It checks if the user has confirmed his/her email before logging in. You may use it anytime at your own risk. If there are any bugs or it has been helpful, tell and share what you think here

Affected files are:
/wiki/languages/messages/MessagesEn.php
/wiki/includes/SpecialUserLogin.php

For Messages.php, I only added/edited the ffg:
[php]
$messages = array(
‘not_authenticated’ => ‘Please verify your email address and try again.’,
‘confirmemail_oncreate’ => ‘A confirmation code was sent to your e-mail address.
Please verify it before you can edit any page.’,
)

For the SpecialUserLogin.php, here are the changes

class LoginForm {
// Added for confirmation error in login
const NO_AUTH = 8;

function addNewAccount() {
global $wgUser, $wgEmailAuthentication;

# Create the account and abort if there’s a problem doing so
$u = $this->addNewAccountInternal();
if( $u == NULL )
return;

# If we showed up language selection links, and one was in use, be
# smart (and sensible) and save that language as the user’s preference
global $wgLoginLanguageSelector;
if( $wgLoginLanguageSelector && $this->mLanguage )
$u->setOption( ‘language’, $this->mLanguage );

# Save user settings and send out an email authentication message if needed
if( $wgEmailAuthentication && User::isValidEmailAddr( $u->getEmail() ) ) {
//Position it here
$u->saveSettings();
global $wgOut;
$error = $u->sendConfirmationMail();
if( WikiError::isError( $error ) ) {
$wgOut->addWikiText( wfMsg( ‘confirmemail_sendfailed’, $error->getMessage() ) );
} else {
$wgOut->addWikiText( wfMsg( ‘confirmemail_oncreate’ ) );
}
}

//removed the other unneccary conditions
global $wgOut;
$self = SpecialPage::getTitleFor( ‘Userlogin’ );
$wgOut->setPageTitle( wfMsgHtml( ‘accountcreated’ ) );
$wgOut->setArticleRelated( false );
$wgOut->setRobotPolicy( ‘noindex,nofollow’ );
$wgOut->addHtml( wfMsgWikiHtml( ‘accountcreatedtext’, $u->getName() ) );
$wgOut->returnToMain( $self->getPrefixedText() );
wfRunHooks( ‘AddNewAccount’, array( $u ) );
return true;
}

function authenticateUserData() {
# code before the changes
if ( 0 == $u->getID() ) {
…
} else {
$u->load();
}

// check if the user has confirmed his/her email
if( !$u->isEmailConfirmed() ) {
return self::NO_AUTH;
}

#code after the changes
if (!$u->checkPassword( $this->mPassword )) {
if( $u->checkTemporaryPassword( $this->mPassword ) ) {
}

function processLogin() {
…
# code before the changes
case self::RESET_PASS:
$this->resetLoginForm( wfMsg( ‘resetpass_announce’ ) );
break;
case self::NO_AUTH:
$this->mainLoginForm( wfMsg( ‘not_authenticated’ ) );
break;
# code after the changes
default:
wfDebugDieBacktrace( “Unhandled case value” );
}
}[/php]
Improvement:

In the Special:Confirm, you may want to make this work without having to log in. I haven’t had the time to tweak that. If you do have the solution, please share them here