How do i: Automatically log users in that log into a website [3.5.4] [Archive]

bluesaga

09-17-2006, 12:59 PM

Say i have a database, and i have two seperate users tables. One is the users for a game im creating, the other VB users table. I have managed to add the users to the database they use the same password and same username. When a user browses to forumvb.php i want them to be logged in and redirected to the forum.

I dont want to have to force them to enter a username and password again as they have already done that, i simply want them logged into VBulletin. Is there any hacks that allow this, if not is it possible to do? Ive played with the VB code a lot and cant seem to figure out how to do this.

Any help extremely appreciated

Thanks
William Vicary

bigfoot

09-18-2006, 08:02 AM

You can use the below code in any php file on your server. Just make sure the URL for global.php is correct.

<?php

// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'statistics');

// ################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ######################
// get special phrase groups
$phrasegroups = array('global');

// get special data templates from the datastore
$specialtemplates = array();

// pre-cache templates used by all actions
$globaltemplates = array();

// pre-cache templates used by specific actions
$actiontemplates = array();

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
require_once('./global.php');

// ################################################## #####################
// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################
// ################################################## #####################

$content['title'] = "Your title";

$navbits = construct_navbits(array('' => "Navbit Title"));

eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";');

ob_start();
?>

Add your content here

<?

$content['main'] = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('BASE TEMPLATE') . '");');

?>

This little script requires a template. I added the template in debug mode and called it BASE TEMPLATE

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />

$headinclude
<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - $content[title]</title>
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar

$content[main]

$footer
</body>
</html>

I think that should do it.