Added a new user right called "alwaysuseskin" that allows the user to

use and set their configured skin even if the wiki administrator has
chosen to disable user skins for the rest of the wiki. Req. by Alexfusco5.

diff --git a/includes/User.php b/includes/User.php
index 898a9f3..6ddd3c6 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/User.php
+++ b/includes/User.php
@@ -2109,7 +2109,7 @@ class User {
                if ( ! isset( $this->mSkin ) ) {
                        wfProfileIn( __METHOD__ );
 
-                       if( $wgAllowUserSkin ) {
+                       if( $wgAllowUserSkin || $this->isAllowed( 'alwaysuseskin' ) ) {
                                # get the user skin
                                $userSkin = $this->getOption( 'skin' );
                                $userSkin = $wgRequest->getVal('useskin', $userSkin);

diff --git a/includes/specials/SpecialPreferences.php b/includes/specials/SpecialPreferences.php
index 9f5329f..fb9e703 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/specials/SpecialPreferences.php
+++ b/includes/specials/SpecialPreferences.php
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ class PreferencesForm {
                $wgUser->setOption( 'nickname', $this->mNick );
                $wgUser->setOption( 'quickbar', $this->mQuickbar );
                global $wgAllowUserSkin;
-               if( $wgAllowUserSkin ) {
+               if( $wgAllowUserSkin || $wgUser->isAllowed( 'alwaysuseskin' ) ) {
                        $wgUser->setOption( 'skin', $this->mSkin );
                }
                global $wgUseTeX;