Auto Login
 

Hey all, still trying to find an auto login script that works on the latest version of vBulletin 3.6x. We have a website w/ a .NET/SQL backend and are integrating this login with vBulletin's.

I am able to authenticate the user fine and set the cookies on the forum server, but for some reason when I go to my forum homepage and hit refresh, the user is not logged in.

I have tried various methods as well but no luck.

-I try setting the cookies manually: vbsetcookie('userid', $userid, true, true, true);
vbsetcookie('password', md5($password . COOKIE_SALT), true, true, true);

-I've tried using cURL and sending my user info to login.php

-I've tried running this function after I set my cookies too: process_new_login($vbulletin->GPC['logintype'], $vbulletin->GPC['cookieuser'], $vbulletin->GPC['cssprefs']); but no luck

Any help? Basically the user session is not created. Am I missing something? THANKS!

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Ok...finally figured it out. I needed to set the username cookie as well:

$vbulletin->userinfo = $vbulletin->db->query_first("SELECT userid, usergroupid, membergroupids, infractiongroupids, username, password, salt FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user WHERE username = '" . $vbulletin->db->escape_string(htmlspecialchars_uni($username)) . "'");

vbsetcookie('password', md5($vbulletin->userinfo['password'] . COOKIE_SALT), 0);
vbsetcookie('username', $vbulletin->userinfo['username'], 0);
vbsetcookie('userid', $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'], true, true, true);

Like I just mentioned, I got this to work. However the first time I go to my site, the user information is not displayed. But when I look at the cookies they are populated. When I refresh the page it works fine.

I currently have my script running as a plugin in the forumhome_start hook. Should there be an earlier hook I should run it in?

Thanks.