Use the PHP-BB user info on other pages of my site

Hangin' Around Joined: Apr 03, 2004 Posts: 32

I have this question :
I'm hosting a PHP-BB forum and created some other pages. What I would like to do is user the USER-LOGIN info from the FORUM for my pages.

So when a user logs into the forum, he can acces the other pages, and these pages will know his name etc etc...

Is this hard to do ? Becuase I've been looking at the files, and they are pretty complex...

Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 6:04 pm

Oh just found the solution to the problem... If anyone else in interested, just let me know...

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

I just caught up with this post. I would like to see what you are doing because I'm not quite clear on what you needed. Thanks!

New Member Joined: Apr 18, 2004 Posts: 2

AYK - please post what you did.

I have a web application and am building extra content that I only want to be accessable to registered users. I don't want the overhead of including mainfile.php, but would like to use the site's user authentication to grant access to the additional content.

Does anyone have a snippet of code that will allow you to get the user's site credentials without actually having to have the extra pages be nuke content?

Thanks.

Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 2:53 pm

This is what I came up with. Seems to work...

Code:




<?php











   $user = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["user"];


   $boolarray = is_array($user);





   if(!is_array($user)) {


   $user = base64_decode($user);


   $user = explode(":", $user);


        $uid = "$user[0]";


      $pwd = "$user[2]";


    } else {


        $uid = "$user[0]";


      $pwd = "$user[2]";


    }   





if ($uid != "" AND $pwd != "") {


   


   $db_username = "PUT USER NAME HERE"; 


   $db_password = "PUT PASSWORD HERE"; 


   $db_hostname = "PUT IP HERE";     


   $db_connect = mysql_connect($db_hostname, $db_username, $db_password)or die("Unable to connect to MySQL"); 





   $db_select = mysql_select_db("PUT DATABASE NAME HERE", $db_connect)or die("Unable to select servers"); 





   $sql = "SELECT user_password, username FROM nuke_users WHERE user_id='$uid'";


   $result = mysql_query($sql);


   $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);


   $pass = $row[user_password];


   $username = $row[username];


   if($pass == $pwd && $pass != ""){


      $user = $username;


   }else{


       $user  = "Anonymous";


    }





}else{


      $user  = "Anonymous";


}








?>

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 2:35 pm

Sorry for late response. This is what I included :

Code:

<?php


/***************************************************************************


 *                                index.php


 *   initpage...Gekopieerd van phpbb forum


 *


 ***************************************************************************/





define('IN_PHPBB', true);


$phpbb_root_path = './fmcforum/';


include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc');


include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);





//


// Start session management


//


$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX);


//


// End session management


//


session_start();





$_SESSION['usernr']=$userdata['user_id'];


$_SESSION['usernaam']=$userdata['username'];


$_SESSION['user_lastvisit']=$userdata['user_lastvisit'];


$_SESSION['user_level']=$userdata['user_level'];


?>