[RELEASE v2] Homepage Login on non-vB page

Ok....this is my first hack. It's small and should be very straight forward.

The source of this hack is a thread that started in the main Code Hacks forum by a user looking for a hack that would allow their members to log in from the main home page of their site. Once logged in, it would display a Welcome message when the logged in member returned to the home page.

The original source was provided by Demolition, but members were having problems with getting the hack to run.

Warning/Disclaimer: I am not a well seasoned PHP programmer. I get by as best I can, but usually learn from example and tinkering. I have changed the PHP coding around slightly, and added much more HTML in order to format the input fields etc. This hack was tested using Internet Explorer 5.5 and Netscat 4.7. I have verified that it works in both OS's several times. I am also running the latest version of PHP on my server, so I'm not sure how to help those of you that are running PHP3, but I'll do the best I can. I won't make any promises though. I plan on continuing to work on this as well as add a few more features to it as time permits.

Download the attached file and edit it using a text editor of your choice. Add the pathway to your forums directory where noted. Save the file as a PHP file to your main forums directory. If your site's home page is an HTML document you will have to call the PHP file using a server side include. If you're not sure how to do this, you should search the forums here as this topic has already been covered several times.

Thanks ... I'll give that a shot!

[badmeetsevil-]

Works fine for me, is there anyway for the login to bring you back to the page you used to login, or go to a specific page rather than the Forums? What I'm planning on doing, is having this in a pop-up, so you can sign in through the pop-up, and all it says after you sign in is something like, "Thanks for signing in, user." Is that possible, or will it always have to go to the BBS?

I too have the login working fine on non-vb pages, but it takes you to the forum homepage. Does anyone know if it's possible to control what page gets loaded after login?

[RobAC]

I'll see what I can do about being able to specify a different page to go to after logging in.

[badmeetsevil-]

Thanks, that'd rule.

[Nicholas Brown]

how about

PHP Code:

chdir("/your/path/to/forums/");
include("global.php"); 


?

huh?

ok could sumone post a WORKING script! All complete with deatiled instructions... Thank you!

[certify]

Will this work on .SHTML page?

it would be nice if I can directly call it via SSI e.g

<!-- include virtual="/something/something.php -->

Just like my site http://www.certifyexpress.com which it currently using UBB but I've just purchase VB license and will migrate to VB once I got the core hack on VB.

[RobAC]

certify,

yes it should.