VB 5.0 login via API - process_new_login not working after upgrade to VB 5.0

[veena]

We have integrated our plugin with VB 5.0. When a user registers to our site, we are able to automatically create a VB account for the user and add user to the right forum group etc.

But when a user logs in to our site, the auto-login (single-sign-on) to VB 5.0 is NOT working.
It used to work really well in VB 4.x.

We make a call to setcookie to set the 'userid' and 'password' and then call the VB API to autologin:

process_new_login('', false, '');

Looks like VB 5.0 has removed support for this API.

Need help with the single-login integration between our plugin (written in php) and VBulletin 5.0.
Has anyone here experienced a similar problem? Any solution for this?

Thanks,
Veena Prashanth

[marco_kellershoff]

Things changed a bit I guess - but I'm pretty new to all this stuff:

Here is that the user class of the VB API does:

PHP Code:

$auth = vB_User::verifyAuthentication($username, $password, $md5password, $md5passwordutf);

if ( !$auth ) {
    error_log('no valid creds');
}
else {
    $res = vB_User::processNewLogin($auth, $logintype);
} 


I guess you could write an extension that extends the user class.

[veena]

Thanks Marco.

Can't believe this has been made so overly complicated with no documentation on the changes between the VB versions for login.

Isn't login a basic function that 3rd party plugins that want to integrate with VB will need?
I am surprised that it is so hard to get login integration done.

Anyway, i figured out how to do it. It is working now.

Wrote my own class that sets these cookies:

vbsetcookie(COOKIE_PREFIX . 'userid', $res['userid'], false, true, true);
vbsetcookie(COOKIE_PREFIX . 'password', $res['password'], false, true, true);
vbsetcookie(COOKIE_PREFIX . 'sessionhash', $res['sessionhash'], false, false, true);

Before call vbsetcookie, need to call :

$auth = vB_User::verifyAuthentication($username, $password, null, null);
if($auth) {
$res = vB_User:rocessNewLogin($auth, $vbulletin->GPC['logintype'], $vbulletin->GPC['cssprefs']);
if($res) {
vbsetcookie(COOKIE_PREFIX . 'userid', $res['userid'], false, true, true);
vbsetcookie(COOKIE_PREFIX . 'password', $res['password'], false, true, true);
vbsetcookie(COOKIE_PREFIX . 'sessionhash', $res['sessionhash'], false, false, true);
}
}

[marco_kellershoff]

Originally Posted by veena

Thanks Marco.

Can't believe this has been made so overly complicated with no documentation on the changes between the VB versions for login.

Isn't login a basic function that 3rd party plugins that want to integrate with VB will need?
I am surprised that it is so hard to get login integration done.

Anyway, i figured out how to do it. It is working now.

Wrote my own class that sets these cookies:

vbsetcookie(COOKIE_PREFIX . 'userid', $res['userid'], false, true, true);
vbsetcookie(COOKIE_PREFIX . 'password', $res['password'], false, true, true);
vbsetcookie(COOKIE_PREFIX . 'sessionhash', $res['sessionhash'], false, false, true);

Before call vbsetcookie, need to call :

$auth = vB_User::verifyAuthentication($username, $password, null, null);
if($auth) {
$res = vB_User:rocessNewLogin($auth, $vbulletin->GPC['logintype'], $vbulletin->GPC['cssprefs']);
if($res) {
vbsetcookie(COOKIE_PREFIX . 'userid', $res['userid'], false, true, true);
vbsetcookie(COOKIE_PREFIX . 'password', $res['password'], false, true, true);
vbsetcookie(COOKIE_PREFIX . 'sessionhash', $res['sessionhash'], false, false, true);
}
}

Some things are documented, but not very well. And most of the docs are not easily to be found.. I googled my a** off to find out some basic stuff :/

Anyway glad you made it

[psanchez]

Hi,

I'm trying to implement something similar. Can you share how you were able to do this further?

Thanks!

[WeBBy]

If you have this working (auto-login) in vb 5.x would really appreciate some additional info as I am pulling my hair out to gety an auto-login working
Thanx