[ndahiya]

# Rehash of sammyman's and my posts in the old thread::


You might get the following error (looks like only with PHP 4.3.11):

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/user/public_html/manuals/includes/SpecialUserlogin.php on line 314

Workaround: In includes/SpecialUserlogin.php, find:
$u =& $this->initUser( $u );
Replace this to this:
$u = $this->initUser( $u );



Excessive Database Pings

Originally Posted by HolisticEarth

[*]Open your wiki/LocalSettings.php file[*]Insert the following code at the end of the file, before the ?>:

PHP Code:

# vBulletin integration script
require_once("AuthPlugin_vBulletin.php");
// if vBulletin and MediaWiki are not installed on the same database
// change these values to reflect your vBulletin database information
$wgAuth = new AuthPlugin_vBulletin($wgDBserver, $wgDBuser, $wgDBpassword, $wgDBname, "vb_"); 


If you are running vBulletin and MediaWiki in the same database, then it already uses the connection information.
If you are not running vBulletin and MediaWiki in the same database, please change the strings to reflect your vBulletin database information.
In either case, the last value is whatever your vBulletin table prefix is.

This works perfectly fine, but for one problem.... Inserting the code in LocalSettings.php creates a "session" to mysql every time someone accesses *any* page in the wiki... (you can see this by putting in the wrong password). On my server, this caused too many sessions being created in mysql, and resulted in the intermittent access problems (as the db was unavailable)!!


The way around this is (Thogh a less elegant solution, and one you have to reapply every time your upgrade mediawiki) to insert the same code near the begining of "includes/User.php"

This takes care of the excess pinging problem, as the vb database is accessed only when a user tries to login.