[Ayumi]

I have been racking my brain and these boards (plus other places) to find a way to use my /forum login throughout my site; from main directory to the last subdirectory. My problem is getting it to work with everything. I will be having the main page with news and things, a gallery, a search engine, and a forum. I want to use my forum login on every page, yet when someone is logged in, I want it to display their welcome (user) blah blah. Also, I wanted to use the same user infos for the gallery (using coppermine) so members won't have to login to everything separately. I will be using vbulliten. If anyone can help me, you'd be my best friend. I don't have enough time to sit down and study php like I wish, so any help here WILL be credited. Thanks.

[fyrestrtr]

I had to work on something similar.

What you need to do is grab a hold of the session information that vb populates once a user is logged in. You can use that to find out if a user is logged in, what group they belong to, etc. etc. All the details.

The simple way to get to this information is to run a vb on your test server, and edit the index.php file (of the forum index page) to include this line

PHP Code:

echo "<pre>"; print_r($_SESSION); echo "</pre>"; 

It will tell you what variables are available to your scripts.

[Ayumi]

I tried that, but it didn't do anything.

I wanted to use the login script on every page of the site, but I only need the script to log one into the gallery and forums. (coppermine & vb). How would I go about that? The gallery doesn't have a session string.

[fyrestrtr]

I hope this isn't against vb regulations, but this is the session/array information for vb :

Code:

Session Array

Array
(
    [sessionhash] => 51c27213dc3dc40436eec0322f12fab6
    [host] => 192.168.1.100
    [useragent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv
    [userid] => 0
    [lastactivity] => 1070264145
    [styleid] => 0
    [dbsessionhash] => 51c27213dc3dc40436eec0322f12fab6
)

Permissions Array

Array
(
    [0] => 1
    [usergroupid] => 1
    [1] => Unregistered / Not Logged In
    [title] => Unregistered / Not Logged In
    [2] => Guest
    [usertitle] => Guest
    [3] => 0
    [cancontrolpanel] => 0
    [4] => 1
    [canmodifyprofile] => 1
    [5] => 1
    [canviewmembers] => 1
    [6] => 1
    [canview] => 1
    [7] => 1
    [cansearch] => 1
    [8] => 1
    [canemail] => 1
    [9] => 0
    [canpostnew] => 0
    [10] => 0
    [canmove] => 0
    [11] => 0
    [canopenclose] => 0
    [12] => 0
    [candeletethread] => 0
    [13] => 0
    [canreplyown] => 0
    [14] => 0
    [canreplyothers] => 0
    [15] => 1
    [canviewothers] => 1
    [16] => 0
    [caneditpost] => 0
    [17] => 0
    [candeletepost] => 0
    [18] => 0
    [canusepm] => 0
    [19] => 0
    [canpostpoll] => 0
    [20] => 0
    [canvote] => 0
    [21] => 0
    [canpostattachment] => 0
    [22] => 0
    [canpublicevent] => 0
    [23] => 0
    [canpublicedit] => 0
    [24] => 1
    [canthreadrate] => 1
    [25] => 0
    [maxbuddypm] => 0
    [26] => 0
    [maxforwardpm] => 0
    [27] => 0
    [cantrackpm] => 0
    [28] => 0
    [candenypmreceipts] => 0
    [29] => 0
    [canwhosonline] => 0
    [30] => 0
    [canwhosonlineip] => 0
    [31] => 0
    [ismoderator] => 0
    [32] => 0
    [showgroup] => 0
    [33] => 1
    [cangetattachment] => 1
)

BBUserinfo Array

Array
(
    [sessionhash] => 51c27213dc3dc40436eec0322f12fab6
    [host] => 192.168.1.100
    [useragent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv
    [userid] => 0
    [lastactivity] => 1070264145
    [styleid] => 0
    [username] => Unregistered
    [password] => 
    [daysprune] => -1
    [lastvisit] => 1070264145
    [cookieuser] => 0
    [nosessionhash] => 0
    [usergroupid] => 1
    [timezoneoffset] => 0
    [showsignatures] => 1
    [showavatars] => 1
    [showimages] => 1
    [showvbcode] => 0
    [lastvisitdate] => 12-01-2003 07:35 AM
)

For vb, you can simply copy the code of the login form to your index page (or template) for vb.

As far as the gallery script goes -- I am not familiar with coppermine, however you can pass the authentication information to a "gateway" script that will pass it along to both coppermine and vb.

For example -- say coppermine requires a third item in the login form (a drop down that has the gallery to be logged into for example). You can add this to your "generic" login form. Set the target of your form to your gateway script. In that gateway script -- pass the user name/password/sessionid to the vb login form -- and the user name/password/gallery information to the coppermine login script. That way, using one form, your user is logged into both applications. You can have this gateway script set a cookie when the user is logged in, and check that cookie in your main site template. If that cookie exists, don't display the login form.

[Ayumi]

Hey, thanks! I really appreciate your help more than you know. I found a way to get coppermine and vb to work together (using a bridge that they include for optional use, silly me for not noticing), but my problem now is getting the bridge file in the right place. I can configure it just fine, just that I don't know where to put it. They don't say, and I can't find the solution anywhere. Does anyone know?

[Ayumi]

I finally got it to work! Thank you so much. I'll be sure to credit you when I finally get the site the way I want. Thanks again!