Remove 'My Talk' and User Page in Mediawiki

1. Find the file 'includes/SkinTemplate.php'

2. Search for the function "function buildPersonalUrls()"

3. Comment out accordingly, i.e.

/*$personal_urls['userpage'] = array(
'text' => $this->username,
'href' => &$this->userpageUrlDetails['href'],
'class' => $this->userpageUrlDetails['exists']?false:'new',
'active' => ( $this->userpageUrlDetails['href'] == $pageurl )
);*/
$usertalkUrlDetails = $this->makeTalkUrlDetails($this->userpage);
/*$personal_urls['mytalk'] = array(
'text' => wfMsg('mytalk'),
'href' => &$usertalkUrlDetails['href'],
'class' => $usertalkUrlDetails['exists']?false:'new',
'active' => ( $usertalkUrlDetails['href'] == $pageurl )
);*/
$href = self::makeSpecialUrl( 'Preferences' );
$personal_urls['preferences'] = array(
'text' => wfMsg( 'mypreferences' ),
'href' => $href,
'active' => ( $href == $pageurl )
);
$href = self::makeSpecialUrl( 'Watchlist' );
$personal_urls['watchlist'] = array(
'text' => wfMsg( 'mywatchlist' ),
'href' => $href,
'active' => ( $href == $pageurl )
);

Random Mediawiki Problem with Cite Extension

I was getting this:

Call to undefined method ParserOptions::getIsSectionPreview() in Cite_body.php on line 699


The 'temporary' way to get rid of this problem is to comment out the following line on line 699.

//if ( $parser->getOptions()->getIsSectionPreview() ) return true;


Unfortunately!

Ubuntu Install PEAR Mail for PHP / sending mail in Ubuntu via PHP

If you're getting some sort of 'php unable to load dynamic library' problem in PHP while trying to send email with PEAR/PHP on Ubuntu you'll probably need to do the following to install pear:

sudo apt-get install php-pear

sudo pear install mail

sudo pear install Net_SMTP

sudo pear install Auth_SASL

sudo pear install mail_mime