Hello, I was wondering how I could put together a sign-in/members only section on a website. I currently have a discussion forum running on a site but want to extend the facilities to include downloads, tutorials, database/inventory, calendar etc to the same group. Is it possible to set up a sign in page which would allow access to the discussion forums as well as other sections whilst maintaining the secure entry to this section?
Which forum application are you using to provide that part? Depending
on which one you’re using, you might be able to create a sort of
“single sign on” feature set that bolts on to that system. It will be
pretty simple to query the database and ask “does this user exist?”,
but each additional feature will require more work to code and
integrate.
Walter
On Mar 31, 2010, at 12:20 PM, tonzodehoo wrote:
Hello, I was wondering how I could put together a sign-in/members
only section on a website. I currently have a discussion forum
running on a site but want to extend the facilities to include
downloads, tutorials, database/inventory, calendar etc to the same
group. Is it possible to set up a sign in page which would allow
access to the discussion forums as well as other sections whilst
maintaining the secure entry to this section?
I haven’t looked at phpBB in years, but if I recall correctly, the
user’s credentials are stored in a database table. So you could build
a connection to that same table in a separate PHP file, and use that
to log them in to your protected area.
What that won’t get you is a single sign-in, where they log in through
one dialog box, and get access to both forums and protected area. If
you need that, you’ll have to do some spelunking through the phpBB
source and see where to add your hooks.
A quick google of ‘phpbb3 single sign on’ gets this link: