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  • Egon Schneider
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    PHP forum / external login

    Hi *,

    I have a a website running for a bunch of people, written in PHP.
    Everyone has it's own login, I use some session-based authentication
    mechanism and a MySQL database for storing the users / passwords /
    .....

    Now I'd like to integrate some 3rd-party-forum into this site,
    something like phpBB or similar , could also be a more simple one, it
    really doesn't matter. But the point is, I don't want that my users
    have to login twice, once for my site, and a second time for the
    forum. I want to have the forum and my site share the same (existing)
    user database.

    So I need an (existing), preferably GPL'ed, preferably PHP-based forum
    software with some kind of external login (e.g., using cookies, PHP
    sessions, $PHP_AUTH_USER, or whatever). Sure, I could hack one, but
    isn't there a better solution?

    Does anyone of you such a forum? Please let me know...

    Thanks,
    Egon Schneider.
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    • Jay Moore
      #2
      Re: PHP forum / external login

      Egon Schneider wrote:[color=blue]
      > Hi *,
      >
      > I have a a website running for a bunch of people, written in PHP.
      > Everyone has it's own login, I use some session-based authentication
      > mechanism and a MySQL database for storing the users / passwords /
      > ....
      >
      > Now I'd like to integrate some 3rd-party-forum into this site,
      > something like phpBB or similar , could also be a more simple one, it
      > really doesn't matter. But the point is, I don't want that my users
      > have to login twice, once for my site, and a second time for the
      > forum. I want to have the forum and my site share the same (existing)
      > user database.
      >
      > So I need an (existing), preferably GPL'ed, preferably PHP-based forum
      > software with some kind of external login (e.g., using cookies, PHP
      > sessions, $PHP_AUTH_USER, or whatever). Sure, I could hack one, but
      > isn't there a better solution?
      >
      > Does anyone of you such a forum? Please let me know...
      >
      > Thanks,
      > Egon Schneider.[/color]

      I found instead of creating a site and implementing a forum, it's easier
      to use the forum and implement the site around it. For example, one of
      the sites a buddy and I we were working on (www.gmtuner.com) has a
      phpbb-driven set of forums. Using the same cookies that phpbb uses, I
      am able to authenticate users on the rest of the site. If they login on
      the site, they're automatically logged in on the boards. If they log
      out on the boards, they're automatically logged out on the remainder of
      the website. The reverse also holds true.

      I'm sure there's a way you could 'hack' phpbb to use your existing users
      database, but I think it'd be far easier to set up phpbb, and copy the
      logins and passwords (and whatever else is necessary) into the phpbb
      users database.

      -Jay

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