#99 Integration with CMS

[Michael Mansour]

Hi,

It's been a while since I've been involved in Brim,
but nevertheless, even though I still run Booby and
am happy with it, I think it's about time I perform
the upgrade.

I run a CMS (Joomla) which I'd like to integrate Brim
with, so that I can have single sign-on ie. login to
Joomla and auto-login to Brim by a menu click.

Is this possible?

Joomla uses the "jos_users" table in its database to
hold the user accounts. Since Brim also uses mysql to
hold the user information, I'm hoping I can have /
make an authentication module for Brim which will
read the "jos_users" table of joomla and authenticate
the user.

Thanks and I appreciate any comments.

Michael.

[Barry Nauta]

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Well... everything is embedded in the following files:
- login.php (graphical presentation of the login screen)
- loginAction.php (takes care of reading user credentials
from the db and setting the session parameters and cookie)
Analogue, there are the signup.php vs signupAction.php and
the lostPassword.php vs the lostPasswordAction.php
- logout.php (destroys session parameters and cookie)

And the one the is being check for every page access within
the framework:
framework/checkLogin.php
(The controllers include this file, so each page access that
is handled by a controller is automatically validated)

HTH
Barry

[Barry Nauta]

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Hi,

Just wanted to know if my answer was of any use and if I can
help with anything...?

Barry

[Michael Mansour]

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Hi Barry,

Yeah it is thanks. I'll definately work on it at sometime in
the future, just at the moment finalising some integration
with other aspects.

I'd expect also if I was to succeed in this integration I'll
GPL it as a bridge or connector in the CMS for others to use.

Just running a little short on time at the moment, so I'll
stay with Booby for just that much longer :P

Thanks.

Michael.