Integrate vbulletin login / session info sitewide

[zeropaid]

Hi, I know there are robust hacks out there that will do this and more, but I am looking for something extremely simple. What I want is a snippet of code I can include on all the pages on my site that are outisde the forum that will :

a) recognize a user as logged in, start their session, add them to the who's onling list, and show some stats, like:
Welcome back:
zeropaid
You last visited:
29. Mar 2005 11:10

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There are 297 users online, 45 members and 252 guests

b) not recognize a user as logged in, start their session, and present them with a login box and some who's online stats

I also need to be able to grab this user's userid for use in other applications, so that either needs to be a session variable I have access to or a cookie or something once they are logged in.

Please let me know if there is an exisiting hack for this, if not I will pay for one.

Thanks,

Chris

[why-not]

Is the site across different domain names or just sub-domains! You could do it both ways just the first way would be more work to get by the browser not letting you read or manage a cookie that is not a member of the current domain.

I have a script that I use for chat logins that I think I could convert to do this, it creates a small login box that you can place on any PHP page! You call it like so!

$box = not_user_login();

What it does, is checks to see if the user is logged in, if not it returns an array with a login box template, if they are logged in it just updates the session.

If this is what your wanting tell me and I will post you some code to do it! It might not be until tomorrow as I am busy at the moment!


Sonia

[zeropaid]

yeah, thats kind of what we are looking for, if you can please post the code and I will try it out. All our pages are ont he same domain.

[greenhybrid]

I'm looking for a similar script that basically lets a visitor show up "online" even if they aren't in a forum page. There should also be a way to validate if they're logged in so that they can be denied access to certain pages accordingly.

[TyleR]

just rename your files into php files, like so:

PHP Code:

<?php

// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'file_name_here');
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);

// ################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ###################### 
// get special phrase groups
$phrasegroups = array();

// get special data templates from the datastore 
$specialtemplates = array();

// pre-cache templates used by all actions 
$globaltemplates = array();

// pre-cache templates used by specific actions 
$actiontemplates = array();

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
// assuming your forums folder is in a seperate direcotry than the area you have made.
chdir('./forum/');
require_once('./global.php');
chdir('./');

echo<<<EOF
your HTML can now go here ~_^

EOF;

?>

i don't trust my "EOF" thing in the echo, but maybe someone can fix it if it's wrong

[xBhp]

hey, so did tyler's method worked? anyone?

[Mistah Roth]

I'm also looking for something like this, I have a number of inefficient methods of getting the username or guest welcome displayed, but I can't seem to get people browsing non-vb pages to end up in online.php.

In vb 3.0.0 including global made it work fine

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by Mistah Roth

I'm also looking for something like this, I have a number of inefficient methods of getting the username or guest welcome displayed, but I can't seem to get people browsing non-vb pages to end up in online.php.

In vb 3.0.0 including global made it work fine

Are you asking this for vB3.0? If not please ask in the 3.5 forums.

There are a few integration hacks/frameworks available, but often it would require customisation for your specific situation.

[Mistah Roth]

No, I'm asking for vb 3.5.4

I'm saying that this was easy in vb 3.0.0 lol