Re: [MRBS-general] (no subject)

[John B. <jo...@re...>]

Michael Walker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the current version of MRBS alongside a message board
> running phpBB 3.0.  So, I'm using the db_ext means of authorisation
> which reads from my phpBB user list to check for membership.  This
> all works fine, but:
> 
> Before my users can access MRBS, they need to have first logged-in to
> phpBB (This is just the way my site's set up).  What I'd like to be
> able to do, therefore, is make it so they don't have to repeat the
> log-in process all over again for MRBS - i.e. MRBS checks the phpBB
> auth instead of whatever it checks at the moment.  Is this possible,
> and, if so, can anyone give me some pointers as to how I could
> achieve it?

I imagine phpBB uses cookies for login, so you'd have to make MRBS 
honour the phpBB cookies.

A first prerequisite to doing this is ensuring that phpBB does indeed 
use cookies, and then ensuring that your phpBB and MRBS installations 
are in the same domain/hostname.

You'd then need to figure out the cookie scheme phpBB uses, and write a 
"session_phpbb.inc" for MRBS.

John.

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