[alanpollenz]

Marco,

I think I can make due without actually hooking into the forum code at all. I can simply fork to the current registration process from the new application to register new users and use my current process to validate users for access.

What I will be doing is checking for the existance of the forum cookie for the "Remember me" feature as well as checking that the user actually exists in the database, the password entered matches the password in the database, and the usergroup access is appropriate.

The only problem I see is that the forum cookie for pdpbbuserid, as an example, has a host of forums.apapdp.org, and I'm not sure I'll be able to read this from within the members area, which will probably be members.apapdp.org.

Do you either:

1. Know a way, using PHP, to access cookies on one subdomain (forums.apapdp.org) from another (members.apapdp.org) or the top level domain (www.apapdp.org)?
2. Know what changes are required to make the forums output its cookies for sitewide use, such as Host: apapdp.org?

Thanks.

Alan Pollenz

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Well the basics for integrating with vB are very simple, just include the following line in your script:

PHP Code:

require_once('./global.php'); 


This will give you access to all the userinformation, including the groups a user belongs to. Just look into the $bbuserinfo array that will be set after you include global.php.

When your script is located outside the vB homedirectory, you will have to chdir to the forumhome dir before calling global.php, and depending on your script chdir back afterwards.

This should get you started. If you have any more specific questions, feel free to ask.