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I know this has been asked before but for the life of me I can't find an workable solution. How do you log in users outside of VB4? We have a private intranet site and I'm adding private forums to this.

I will be creating the users and will know their passwords (they will not know them). I need to log them in. I've done this in vb3 a number of years ago but can't get it to work in vb4. I'm working with php.

UPDATE

Figured it out. This is what worked for me using a combination of php and javscript to auto log them into the forums when they click the forums button from our website:

php

PHP Code:


		
			
$hasher = md5('users password');
        
$destination = "'https://yourpathtothe/forums/login.php?do=login";
$params = "{
    'url':'index.php',
    'vb_login_username':'users login', 
    'vb_login_password':'".$hasher."',
    'vb_login_md5password':'".$hasher."',
    'vb_login_md5password_utf':'".$hasher."',
    'do':'login',
    'securitytoken':'guest',
    's':''
}";

javascript

Code:

<html>

        <head>

                <script>

                        function post_to_url(path,params) {

                                method = "post";



                                var form = document.createElement("form");

                                form.setAttribute("method", method);

                                form.setAttribute("action", path);

                                

                                //Move the submit function to another variable

                                //so that it doesn't get overwritten.

                                form._submit_function_ = form.submit;

                                

                                for(var key in params) {

                                        if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {

                                                var hiddenField = document.createElement("input");

                                                hiddenField.setAttribute("type", "hidden");

                                                hiddenField.setAttribute("name", key);

                                                hiddenField.setAttribute("value", params[key]);

                         

                                                form.appendChild(hiddenField);

                                        }

                                }                

                                

                                document.body.appendChild(form);

                                form._submit_function_();

                        }



                        window.onload = function() {

                                post_to_url('<?php echo $destination; ?>',<?php echo $params; ?>); 

                        }

                </script>

        </head>

        <body>

        </body>

</html>

Not the most elegant solution but hopefully it will help others get started.

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