Vanilla forums [authenticate outside forum]

Envato Authors CodeCanyon
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Is there anybody here that works with vanilla forums? I want to use the vanilla forums authentication outside the forum. Does anybody know how to do this? I have searched the files for examples but no success, i even googled it but even that was without any success.

Hope someone can help me with this.

Greetz Dizcow

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so once they authenticate with the forum on your site, you would like to use that authentication in other parts of the site? eg: a members only area.

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Yes correct, with wordpress its easy:

$UID = wp_validate_auth_cookie();



if(empty($UID)){
    
    header("location: http://mainsite.com/");

}else{

    $user_info = get_userdata($UID);

}

But i cannot find this on vanilla.

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Try something along the lines of:

define('APPLICATION', 'Vanilla');
define('APPLICATION_VERSION', '2.0.16');
define('DS', '/');
define('PATH_ROOT', 'path-to-forum');
ob_start();
require_once(PATH_ROOT.DS.'bootstrap.php');
ob_end_clean(); // clear any header output from vanila
$Session = Gdn::Session();
$Authenticator = Gdn::Authenticator();
if ($Session->IsValid()) {
   $Name = $Session->User->Name;
   echo "You are logged in as $Name";
}else{
  echo "You are not logged in";
}

change path-to-forum above.

I’ve just put this on my site, it works from a php script outside of my vanilla forum:

[link]

enjoy!

dave.

5

Works perfectly, thank you very much for taking the time to help me with this :slight_smile:

I can now integrate my account verification for item support.

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DizCow said

I can now integrate my account verification for item support.

Feel free to share it when you have it working

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I will absolutely do that, ill keep you in touch :wink:

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Is there any way to check if the user is logged in in the vanilla forum using a WordPress page template?

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You can install plug in “php anywhere” if i am correct, then you can use this class to check if user is logged in :wink:

http://code.google.com/p/dizcow/downloads/detail?name=vanilla_outdoors_1_0.rar

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dtbaker said
DizCow said

I can now integrate my account verification for item support.

Feel free to share it when you have it working

Cant share it here, it will be reported every time i do it :wink:

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Hi DizCow

I’m using your class but only works if i use it in the index.php file of the vanilla forum, i’ve tried to use it in a page template in WordPress but all the content disappears.

The problem with the class is that if the user is not logged in then he can not register, etc.

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I am working on a newer version of this class, give me a few days and ill upload the new class :wink:

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Oh man you are amazing, i’m crating a forum support for my themes and i want to use vanilla forums, everything is working till now, the purchase verification, etc. now i just need to check if the user is logged in in the forum using a WordPress page template, this way the user does not have the enter the purchase information to access to the forum all the time.

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Well i found exactly what i needed with dtbaker’s code, now is working correctly.

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manu3l9816 said

Well i found exactly what i needed with dtbaker’s code, now is working correctly.

glad you got that sorted, sorry I didn’t get time to reply to your comment via my website. busy weekend.

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nice. where can we find the updated version?