I need to create a enw php script amd do the following!

[Frank H. Shaw]

I am building a server side php file and at the top of the file after i have stuffed the $_POST to $varables what ever was passed by a front end form in HTML and PHP. What i need to understand is what would I put in my PHP script to prcoess the user is logged in to the forum aready or not and then after that has been detremed and if not i need to know where i should look for the actual code to ask the user to login in before jumping to the actual forum that the user has selected by selecting one of my quick links on my main page which is not contained in the /forums/ - while on the question is there requirment to have my php script that does the checking weather login or not have to sit in the /forums/ or can i have it like sit or reside in my web root unstead?

THANKS

Frank H. Shaw

[Eikinskjaldi]

You might like to use some punctuation in your posts. I am rather fond of the comma and period myself.


Most of what you want (assuming I understood the question) lives in $vbulletin->userinfo


e.g. you can do
if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
print_no_permission();


to see if a user is logged in.

[Frank H. Shaw]

The script below will this work just as this is and can it reside in my web root and not in my /forums/ sub dir I wnat it to reside one level above the /forums?

<?php
$selected = $_POST['selected'];
if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
print_no_permission();

switch ($selected) {
case "John T Heard Lodge":
$vbulletin->url = $vbulletin->options['bburl']."/forumdisplay.php?f=30";
eval(print_standard_redirect('redirecting to forum', false, true));
break;

case "The Tyrian-Acacia Lodge":
$vbulletin->url = $vbulletin->options['bburl']."/forumdisplay.php?f=31";
eval(print_standard_redirect('redirecting to forum', false, true));

break;

default:
echo "Invalid page";

break;

}
?>

THANKS

Frank H. Shaw

[Eikinskjaldi]

To access the vbulletin stuff you will need to import global.php

require_once('forum/global.php');

then that should work, AFAIK.

[Frank H. Shaw]

Would this be correct now ?

<?php
$selected = $_POST['selected'];
require_once('forum/global.php');

if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
print_no_permission();

switch ($selected) {
case "John T Heard Lodge":
$vbulletin->url = $vbulletin->options['bburl']."/forumdisplay.php?f=30";
eval(print_standard_redirect('redirecting to forum', false, true));
break;

case "The Tyrian-Acacia Lodge":
$vbulletin->url = $vbulletin->options['bburl']."/forumdisplay.php?f=31";
eval(print_standard_redirect('redirecting to forum', false, true));

break;

default:
echo "Invalid page";

break;

}
?>

THANKS

Frank H. Shaw

[Eikinskjaldi]

looks good. Try it and see.

[Dismounted]

That won't work, you must switch to the forum directory using chdir() for global.php to include properly.
$curdir = getcwd();
chdir('./forums');
require_once('./global.php');
chdir($curdir);

if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
{
print_no_permission();
}

switch ($_POST['selected'])
{
case "John T Heard Lodge":
$vbulletin->url = $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/forumdisplay.php?f=30';
eval(print_standard_redirect('redirecting to forum', false, true));
break;
case "The Tyrian-Acacia Lodge":
$vbulletin->url = $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/forumdisplay.php?f=31';
eval(print_standard_redirect('redirecting to forum', false, true));
break;
default:
echo "Invalid page";
break;
}

[Frank H. Shaw]

by the thanks for the fix you sighted on the changing dir that was very good catch on your part.

Now looking at just this

if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
{
print_no_permission();
}

Here it now with the above lines does and checks to see if the user is loged in yet and if not he gets a error message telling him he is not - so if he is not loged in I want him to be required to login at that point. So not only is he going to have to enter the password to get into the private fourm in this case a sub-fourm - i want the login screen to pop up and have the user be required to login before going any futher.

So how would i modfy the below php to do that ?

if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
{
print_no_permission();
}

THANKS

Frank H. Shaw

[Dismounted]

That error does show username/password boxes, is that not what you're after?

[Frank H. Shaw]

Here is the problem i am haveing on the frontend the HTML stuff maybe you have a idea of what the two problems are ?

have two problems my PHP inside the HTML does not seem to be grabing the right value from the optgroup because my echo is echo the actual text value and not what was selected so lets solve that first?

<select>
<optgroup label="Blue Lodges">
<option value="John T. Heard Lodge">John T. Heard Lodge</option>
<option value="The Tyrian-Acacia Lodge">The Tyrian-Acacia Lodge</option>
</optgroup>
</select>

<?php
$selected = value;
echo $selected;
?>


Now the other problem is the $selected need to be put in the actual text box in the form and it needs to be also the value selected in the optgroup so how do I stuff this in the text box ?


My form is the following :

<form action="lodgeselected.php" method="post">
<element attribute="nodeValue" />
<label for="elementID"></label>
<input id="elementID" />
<input type="hidden" name="Blue-lodge" value="<?php echo $selected ?>" />
<label for="textfield">Forum selected</label>
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>

Other wise if these two things are soloved I should be ok THANK!

If you want to see the actual problem please click on this link below

http://burningtaper.org/index-2.php

THANKS

Frank H. Shaw

[Frank H. Shaw]

The following works fine and since it is a private forum going to it requres a password to get into it. The system ask the user for the private password and takes me to the correct fourm number 30 as it should.

$curdir = getcwd();
chdir('./forums');
require_once('./global.php');

// if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
// {
// print_no_permission();
// }

chdir($curdir);

switch ($_POST['blue_lodge'])
{
case "John T. Heard Lodge":
$vbulletin->url = $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/forumdisplay.php?f=30';
eval(print_standard_redirect('redirecting to forum', false, true));
// echo "We have found it ";
break;

default:
echo "Invalid page";
break;

}

?>


But If I uncomment these lines

if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
{
print_no_permission();
}

The login screen comes up fine but if i use my vaild user name and password it does not take me to the forum but a get a 404 error page.

If I decide to click on the register link i have the same trouble 404 error page !

Please explain how to get around this problem.

THANKS

Frank H. Shaw

I think my problem has something to do with the fact that i am runnung IIS so i have come to the realization that the chdir('./forums'); will not work on the IIS server - Please explian to me what is the problem and how to get around it.

[Frank H. Shaw]

The problem here seems to be a result of the chdir working diffently on a IIS server which runs windows 2000 and not lynex - so i have made a new thread addrees this directly thanks !

if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
{
print_no_permission();
}

seem to have problems inside there source and might have to do with the fact that i am running on a non lynex server - which i am in fact running windows 2000 server from microsoft and running IIS - i have tested the chdir function it works diffentely on the IIS server - i have verifyed the fact by putting ecos in after using the function.