Remember Me on Multiple Forums

[Ciarank]

I have searched extensivley but could not find the answer.

I run multiple forums side by side on the one domain name. I currently have to log on to each forum up to 100 times a day and it is a real waste of time.

vb.com said that it would take some modification to enable me to do this but also said it may not be as secure.

Can anyone tell me if there is already a hack available to allow the 'remember me' function to work on each of the forums that I am running. It would save me so much time over the long term. And how secure would the hack be?

Many thnaks for your help.

Regards,
Ciaran

[Paul M]

Why do you need to login 100 times a day ?

[Ciarank]

Because there are over 100 forums on the site and I post to some of them and also to reply and send PM's which are ongoing.

Do you know how I may tackle the problem?

Many thanks.

Ciaran

[Paul M]

Once you have logged into each forum (with remember me ticked) then you shouldn't have to log into it again, that's the point of remember me. Are you saying this doesn't work, what happens ? How are these forums set-out (example urls please).

[Ciarank]

Yes I am saying that they do not work. Its something to do with them being on the same domain. Have a quick look at this thread on vb.com: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...95#post1251395

Thanks.

Ciaran

[Paul M]

You simply don't have the correct cookie settings.

in vBulletin Options > Cookies and HTTP Header Options > Path to Save Cookies

you need to set them to use the forum path, not the default of '/' (the path should be an option in the dropdown).



Alternatively, you could give each forum a seperate prefix in config.php ;

PHP Code:

    //    Prefix that all vBulletin cookies will have
    //    Keep this short and only use numbers and letters, i.e. 1-9 and a-Z
$config['Misc']['cookieprefix'] = 'bb'; 


The default is 'bb', just give each forum a unique prefix (you don't have to stick to two letters).

[Ciarank]

Excellent Paul, thank you very much for your help. I tried the second option cos I already had the 'Path to Save Cookies' option done and that didn't seem to make a difference.

Just one further quick question, will there be consequences of doing this ie- will my members get logged out and have to re select the remember me button.

Also I am going to enter the path of the url after the domain ie- www.domain/thepathname1 www.domain/thepathname2 etc etc. In other words I will put the name in green into the config file. Just wondering if there may be any consequences of doing this cos it if I have to change them it is going to take quite a while to do cos there are so many forums.

Once again many thanks for you help. You have no idea how much time this is going to save me over the long term.


Regards,
Ciaran

Originally Posted by Paul M

You simply don't have the correct cookie settings.

in vBulletin Options > Cookies and HTTP Header Options > Path to Save Cookies

you need to set them to use the forum path, not the default of '/' (the path should be an option in the dropdown).



Alternatively, you could give each forum a seperate prefix in config.php ;

PHP Code:

    //    Prefix that all vBulletin cookies will have
    //    Keep this short and only use numbers and letters, i.e. 1-9 and a-Z
$config['Misc']['cookieprefix'] = 'bb'; 


The default is 'bb', just give each forum a unique prefix (you don't have to stick to two letters).

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Ciarank

Just one further quick question, will there be consequences of doing this ie- will my members get logged out and have to re select the remember me button.

Yes, everyone will have to login again.

Originally Posted by Ciarank

Also I am going to enter the path of the url after the domain ie- www.domain/thepathname1 www.domain/thepathname2 etc etc. In other words I will put the name in green into the config file. Just wondering if there may be any consequences of doing this cos it if I have to change them it is going to take quite a while to do cos there are so many forums.

Are you referring to the prefix, if so I think that's a slightly long naming system, better to use short prefixes, like aa, ab, ac etc. Just keep a record of what you used in a text/excel file.

[Ciarank]

The only reason why I was going to put in the path name was because it would be easier to remember without having to calculate the next set of letters if you know what I mean. I assume that this is ok?

Thanks again Paul for your help it is much appreciated.


Regards,
Ciaran

Originally Posted by Paul M

Yes, everyone will have to login again.

Are you referring to the prefix, if so I think that's a slightly long naming system, better to use short prefixes, like aa, ab, ac etc. Just keep a record of what you used in a text/excel file.