From e4a21087cc95c66ec8a3671266692047b9c632f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Semenik <maxsem@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 06:06:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] New installer: fixed fatal exception due to attempted DB
 access from User::loadOptions()

---
 includes/installer/Installer.php | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/includes/installer/Installer.php b/includes/installer/Installer.php
index 03804423f1..6af820b9db 100644
--- a/includes/installer/Installer.php
+++ b/includes/installer/Installer.php
@@ -224,6 +224,10 @@ abstract class Installer {
 		$wgExtensionMessagesFiles['MediawikiInstaller'] =
 			'./includes/installer/Installer.i18n.php';
 
+		global $wgUser;
+		$wgUser = User::newFromId( 0 );
+		// Having a user with id = 0 safeguards us from DB access via User::loadOptions()
+
 		// Set our custom <doclink> hook
 		global $wgHooks;
 		$wgHooks['ParserFirstCallInit'][] = array( $this, 'registerDocLink' );
-- 
2.20.1