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New User Email Notification Release status: unmaintainedCategory:Unmaintained extensions
Implementation	NotifyCategory:Notification extensions, Hook Category:Hook extensions
Description	Sends email notification when user accounts are created
Author(s)	Rob Churchtalk Universal Omegatalk
Latest version	1.7.0 (2021-4-15)
MediaWiki	1.35+Category:Extensions with manual MediaWiki version
PHP	7.2+
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Browse repository (GitHub) Gerrit code review Git commit log Download source tarball Category:Extensions in Wikimedia version control README
Parameters $wgNewUserNotifTargets $wgNewUserNotifEmailTargets $wgNewUserNotifSender
Hooks used LocalUserCreated Category:LocalUserCreated extensions
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The New User Email Notification extension sends a customisable email to specified recipients when a new user account is created. The extension can send to multiple users, and additional email addresses, and is useful for keeping track of account creation on a small wiki.

Installation

• Download and move the extracted NewUserNotif folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/NewUserNotif
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'NewUserNotif' );
  

• Configure the extension as required
• Customise the notification email as required
• Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed. Category:Extensions still supporting pre-registration versions

To users running MediaWiki 1.35 or earlier:

The instructions above describe the new way of installing this extension using wfLoadExtension(). If you need to install this extension on these earlier versions (MediaWiki 1.35 and earlier), instead of wfLoadExtension( 'NewUserNotif' );, you need to use:

require_once "$IP/extensions/NewUserNotif/NewUserNotif.php";

Configuration

The behaviour of the extension, including notification recipients, is managed using the configuration variables below:

$wgNewUserNotifTargets

Array containing the usernames or identifiers of those who should receive a notification email; defaults to the first user (usually the wiki's primary administrator)

$wgNewUserNotifEmailTargets

Array containing email addresses to which a notification should also be sent

• $wgNewUserNotifSender

Email address of the sender of the email; defaults to the value of $wgPasswordSender

For example, you could add this to the "LocalSettings.php" file:

$wgNewUserNotifEmailTargets = [
    'your_email_address@example.com'
];

Customisation

The subject and text of the notification email sent to each recipient can be customised using two messages:

MediaWiki

Newusernotifsubj

Subject line

MediaWiki

Newusernotifbody

Body text

Further Customisation

You can fully customize both the subject line and the message body, including adding new parameters which can be passed into both of those generators starting in version 1.5.2.

Starting in 1.5.2, you can also extend the message customisation by using hooks added to the extension which allow you to create new subject and body text without hacking the extension code.

This involves creating an extension to the NewUserNotif extension. For this example, the extension file "ExtendedParamsExample.php" can be found in the extension distribution. It is recommended you create a copy of this file and rename it to something meaningful to your site(s).

You would then include the new extension in your localsettings.php after you included the NewUserNotif.php.

. . .
wfLoadExtension( 'NewUserNotif' );
require_once "$IP/extensions/NewUserNotif/[yourExtendeParamsExample].php";
. . .

This available hooks are:

Function	Version	Hook	Description
New User Email Notification	1.5.2	NewUserNotifBody	Create text for message body of notification email
	1.5.2	NewUserNotifSubject	Create text for the subject line of the new user notification email

An example extension that uses this is included in the distribution as "ExtendedParamsExample.php". For more details, see this Customisation example.

This extension is included in the following wiki farms/hosts and/or packages: Miraheze Category:Extensions included in Miraheze WikiForgeCategory:Extensions included in WikiForge This is not an authoritative list. Some wiki farms/hosts and/or packages may contain this extension even if they are not listed here. Always check with your wiki farms/hosts or bundle to confirm.