[RELEASE] Geeklog user authentication integration

This is a brute force method of making the geeklog portal software use the vBulletin authentication system allowing users to register and log in just once on either the forum or main page.

In action at http://britishexpats.com

Here's a zip that includes all the modified geeklog code with instructions detailing the vB code that needs changing. http://britishexpats.com/download/Geeklog11-vB_01.zip

There are also instructions to change the raw geeklog code if you prefer to download it yourself.

Even if you don't have or don't want geeklog, the vB changes could be easily modified to work with most free portal scripts I've seen.

Thanks, I'm anxious to try it...

I just upgraded my site to GEEKLOG! =) now i can integrate. thanks!

What about security levels for the users? for submissions etc?

tried both editing the files manually, and tried using your install no luck..
if you can shoot me an email.. thanks..
dido@eleetcrew.com

Originally posted by fastforward
This is a brute force method of making the geeklog portal software use the vBulletin authentication system allowing users to register and log in just once on either the forum or main page.

In action at http://britishexpats.com

Here's a zip that includes all the modified geeklog code with instructions detailing the vB code that needs changing. http://britishexpats.com/download/Geeklog11-vB_01.zip

There are also instructions to change the raw geeklog code if you prefer to download it yourself.

Even if you don't have or don't want geeklog, the vB changes could be easily modified to work with most free portal scripts I've seen.

Hey fastforward I tried Geeklog once on my hosting account but without success. Is it true that you must OWN the server 'cause you have to be allowed to do some PHP.INI, etc. edits???

Cr4z33: You don't shouldn't need to. I had no problems with my vservers.com account.

krylon: Sorry you're having trouble. What sort of problems are you seeing. Most of the problems I had were due to the paths of the include files. Let me know the error messages you are seeing and I'm they can be easity fixed. I'm assuming you managed to get the basic Geeklog working first right? Are the problems definately with the edits?

Regards

I installed geeklog then installed vbulletin and did the changes but had no luck. So I decided to kill everything and just get geeklog running. I have geeklog running now but for some reason I can't login to it anymore not quite sure what I did. But once I have geeklog fully functional I will back it up and then do the hacks to vbulletin. Anybody use PHPNUKE instead of Geeklog?

Originally posted by fastforward
Cr4z33: You don't shouldn't need to. I had no problems with my vservers.com account.

K, I'll try then again.

i had problems, then i redid everything, and once it worked fine, all i got was a blank screen on both the vbb, and the geeklog..

answer no yuo don't need to edit php.ini.
just set paths correctly.. You just need to have access to chmod files.

Awesome Hack fastforward!
I hope that it will work with version 2!

When you want to reply to the news, and it says "create an account" it should redirect to Vbb's registration form instead of asking for your username and email, and if you do input an email it redirects to a blank page!

This should be easy to solve though

Another thing I suggest is not to allow anon users to post or reply to news

[Edited by conan on 12-07-2000 at 06:24 AM]

Another thing that would be nice to search the other forums as well from the main page, instead of only searching the news!

Conan,
You should be able to turn off anonymous posting using the geeklog config.php. There are two options in there;
$CONF["loginrequired"] = 1; is for story submissions and $CONF["loginrequired2"] = 1; is for replys.

As for the create account link; it does work on mine. I must have missed a bit of code on the version I posted. The trouble is I hacked mine as I went along and didn't bother documenting it very well (yeah, yeah, I know... dumb move). I had to extract the bits from my live site which also has integration for news articles apearing as threads and support for Apache rewrite to make it search engine friendly.

The other thing was I just wanted a quick and dirty fix until Geeklog 1.5 and vB 2.0 came along. When I get my hands on vB 2.0 I'm going to integrate them cleanly with the option of articles appearing in any forum and posts or replies from either side to apear in both places etc.

I'll have a look at the problem and let you know the fix.

regards

fastforward

Thanks a lot for your reply, and again great hack, I'm looking forward to testing it, and of course to see vb2 integration :)