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Custom authentication system
Hi guys, I have my own site running and I'd like to add a forum to it. I finally decided to use Vanilla
However, I have my own authentication system for my site, and I don't want the users to register again at the forums.
My question is, can I make it so that people can log-in using the users from my database and not from GDN_Users?
I suppose not, but, can I do something so that users do not have to register at the forums? (I don't want them to be guests either)
Maybe copy all my users to GDN_Users and make it so that when someone registers at the website I also add the user to Vanilla users table. However, I can't do the first part because of the encryption method of Vanilla. I'm using MD5 and Vanilla is using a custom one.
What can I do?
However, I have my own authentication system for my site, and I don't want the users to register again at the forums.
My question is, can I make it so that people can log-in using the users from my database and not from GDN_Users?
I suppose not, but, can I do something so that users do not have to register at the forums? (I don't want them to be guests either)
Maybe copy all my users to GDN_Users and make it so that when someone registers at the website I also add the user to Vanilla users table. However, I can't do the first part because of the encryption method of Vanilla. I'm using MD5 and Vanilla is using a custom one.
What can I do?
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You use your own CMS for user registration and logging in and out. Your CMS provides a page that identifies the user currently logged in, and that is just about it. When a user first goes to a Vanilla page, if they do not already exist in Vanilla, then ProxyConnect will create them and log them in.
YMMV, naturally.
Did you ever solve this? Would love to integrate with my sites existing authentication system without needing jsConnect/ProxyConnect (they don't work on my site).
You could set up your own OpenID System :P and then use the OpenID ( or modify one of the current handlers like the google sign in) plugin
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@jaredNZ You are going to have to a) use a plugin in Vanilla like ProxyConnect or b) Update your custom user registration script to create a Vanilla user or c) Write some bridge software that keeps things in sync between the two.
All of these will require some development on your part.
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I did everything @Tama...The proxy/jsConnect is horribly over complicated IMHO. I was about 14 hours tracing through the proxy connect login system yesterday. And its still only intermittently-automatically adding users to Vanilla. I manually added users to the database in PHP but it didn't log them in when they arrived.
Going to start a new thread with a bounty to solve the issue.
Take a look at http://findingscience.com/mod_auth_openid/
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No offense but thats a ridiculous suggestion @Tama. Its a forum, there's no need to design your own OpenID system. I have full access to mod the PHP and set cookies. It should be a 50 line PHP script calling existing functions inside Vanilla that overrides the plugin architecture.
e.g.
UserModel user = new UserModel(array);
DB->insert(user);
GDN->Authenticator->SetLoggedIn();
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Fact is its not as simple as that @hgtonight, I've already tried using the vanilla internal models. And if it was that simple you'd post the actual code instead of a link to a file I've clearly already found -- look at the example code I posted...
I wasn't trying to imply anything.
You want someone to recreate functionality that already exists in garden/vanilla.
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