Integrate Phpbb3 forum login(session) with website

Integrate Phpbb3 forum login(session) with website

When we use third part tool phpbb3 with your website as site forum there is necessary  to set phpbb3 login session when any user login to website so user can also use forum without re-login to phpbb3 forum because there is many session variable that is require for login to forum and work on it.

Example:-

Website name:-www.example.com

Website forum:- www.example.com/forum/

Website login page:-www.example.com/login.php

There is 3 way to reach to site forum first open/land to index.php page and reach to it’s viewforum.php page and reach to it’s viewtopic.php page

Website forum page use by user:-

www.example.com/forum/index.php,

www.example.com/forum/viewforum.php,

 www.example.com/forum/viewtopic.php

First we need that user that is register with site also have entry in phpbb3 forum users table and user_group with same user id that is given on site registration time.

When we move site to forum any above forum page than we need to pass that user id as parameter and get that parameter then fetch record from site user table and set all necessary session parameter for keep login on form.

 Forum login session set code:-

//get site user Id

$var_id=$_GET['id'];



//start forum user session

$user->session_begin(); 

 

//check user id exist or login 

if($var_id!='')

{



$str="select * from site_members where member_id=$var_id"; 

$qstr=mysql_query($str,$dbc) or die('error in members'.mysql_error());

$fstr=mysql_fetch_array($qstr);

    

   $user->data[user_ip] = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

    $user->data[user_regdate] = 0;

    $user->data[username] = $fstr['first_name'];

    $user->data[username_clean] = $fstr['first_name'];

    $user->data[user_password] = md5($fstr['password']);

    $user->data[user_passchg] = 0;

    $user->data[user_pass_convert] = 0;

    $user->data[user_email] = '';

    $user->data[user_email_hash] = 0;

    $user->data[user_birthday] =  0- 0-   0;

    $user->data[user_lastvisit] = 1238142551;

    $user->data[user_lastmark] = 0;

    $user->data[user_lastpost_time] = 0;

    $user->data[user_lastpage] = index.php;

    $user->data[user_last_confirm_key] = '';

    $user->data[user_last_search] = 0;

    $user->data[user_warnings] = 0;

    $user->data[user_last_warning] = 0;

    $user->data[user_login_attempts] = 0;

    $user->data[user_inactive_reason] = 0;

    $user->data[user_inactive_time] = 0;

    $user->data[user_posts] = 1;

    $user->data[user_lang] = en;

    $user->data[user_timezone] = 0.00;

    $user->data[user_dst] = 0;

    $user->data[user_dateformat] = 'd M Y H:i';

    $user->data[user_style] = 1;

    $user->data[user_rank] = 0;

    $user->data[user_colour] = '';

    $user->data[user_new_privmsg] = 0;

    $user->data[user_unread_privmsg] = 0;

    $user->data[user_last_privmsg] = 0;

    $user->data[user_message_rules] = 0;

    $user->data[user_full_folder] = -3;

    $user->data[user_emailtime] = 0;

    $user->data[user_topic_show_days] = 0;

    $user->data[user_topic_sortby_type] = t;

    $user->data[user_topic_sortby_dir] = d;

    $user->data[user_post_show_days] = 0;

    $user->data[user_post_sortby_type] = t;

    $user->data[user_post_sortby_dir] = a;

    $user->data[user_notify] = 1;

    $user->data[user_notify_pm] = 0;

    $user->data[user_notify_type] = 0;

    $user->data[user_allow_pm] = 1;

    $user->data[user_allow_viewonline] = 1;

    $user->data[user_allow_viewemail] = 0;

    $user->data[user_allow_massemail] = 1;

    $user->data[user_options] = 831;

    $user->data[user_avatar] = '';

    $user->data[user_avatar_type] = 0;

    $user->data[user_avatar_width] = 0;

    $user->data[user_avatar_height] = 0;

    $user->data[user_sig] = '';

    $user->data[user_sig_bbcode_uid] = '3m872xlu';

    $user->data[user_sig_bbcode_bitfield] = 0;

    $user->data[user_from] = '';

    $user->data[user_icq] = '';

    $user->data[user_aim] = '';

    $user->data[user_yim] = '';

    $user->data[user_msnm] = '';

    $user->data[user_jabber] = '';

    $user->data[user_website] = '';

    $user->data[user_occ] = '';

    $user->data[user_interests] = '';

    $user->data[user_actkey] = '';

    $user->data[user_newpasswd] = '';

    $user->data[user_form_salt] = '168ff8093150140f';

    $user->data[session_id] = session_id();

    $user->data[session_user_id] = $fstr["member_id"];;

    $user->data[session_forum_id] = 0;

    $user->data[session_last_visit] = '1238142551';

    $user->data[session_start] = time();

    $user->data[session_time] = time();

    $user->data[session_ip] = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

    $user->data[session_browser] = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];

    $user->data[session_forwarded_for] = '';

    $user->data[session_page] = 'index.php';  

    $user->data[session_viewonline] = 1;

    $user->data[session_autologin] = 0;

    $user->data[session_admin] = 0;

    $user->data[is_registered] = 1;

    $user->data[is_bot] = '';

    $autologin='true';

    $result = $auth->login($fstr['username'], $fstr['password'], $autologin);

    $result['error_msg']=LOGIN_SUCCESS;

}

Note-

1.    $user->data[session_page] = 'index.php';  

index.php is the value according to page on which it is use like for viewforum.php it will be viewforum.php and for viewtopic.php it will be viewtopic.php

2.

$auth->login($username, $password, $remember, 1, 0)

$username would be the exact username that would be found in the phpBB user table.

$password would be the string to match by (pre-hash, this should be just the original text, the $auth->login() function takes care of converting it into a comparable hash)

$remember is a boolean value, false if no remember me choice, true if user is going to have a 'remembered' session