automatic user login

[looknow12]

Hi,

I want to make user logged in automatically when they go to forums from my website account.

BTW: My web application is in ASP.Net and MS SQL Server.

How can I do this?

Regards,
Krunal

[Dismounted]

You need to set the cookies that vBulletin does. You can find what vBulletin does to log someone in login.php (and follow the breadcrumbs).

[ozancigiz]

Hi,

I am trying to achieve the same thing. Once the user logs into my website, I want them to be automatically logged in to vBulletin. Using the vBulletin login for my website is not an option for me as I do not want to rewrite the code.

I have basically gone through login.php. I am not able to understand certain statements and cannot find any documentation regarding them:

What does the following statements in login.php do?

- $vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc
- $vbulletin->GPC['vb_login_username'] where is this variable set?
- $vbulletin->GPC['logintype'] where is this variable set?
- $vbulletin->GPC['cookieuser'] where is this variable set?
- $vbulletin->GPC['cssprefs'] where is this variable set?

Once I understand the answer to these questions, I think I will be able to handle my requirement.

[Dismounted]

Once input is cleaned by clean_array_gpc() (the input being GPC - Get, Post, Cookies), it is placed inside an array called "GPC".

[ozancigiz]

Apologies, but in the code for login.php, I have not seen any of these variables set.

Where are these variables set?
My understanding is, I will clean GPC first, and then set all of these variables.

Call verify_authentication function followed by process_new_login function and that is it.

However, I need to understand where and how these GPC variables are set?

[Dismounted]

Variables such as $_POST['var1'] get transposed into the GPC array when cleaned by the input cleaner.