PHP AUTH login

carephh

Hey guys,

Im brand new to the Vanilla universe. Im having a version of Vanilla2 installed on a .htaccess protected website. What i would like to do is to use the $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] to automatically authenticate the users with, when they enter the forum.

How would you suggest to do this?

Todd

I recommend writing a plugin.

1. Create a Gdn_Dispatcher_BeforeDispatch_Handler($Sender) function.
2. Check make sure a user isn't already signed in:

if (Gdn::Session()->UserID > 0) return; 

2. Check $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']
3. Look up that user in the user table:

Gdn::UserModel()->GetByUsername(...)

4. If the user doesn't exist then insert the user:

$UserID = Gdn::UserModel()->InsertForBasic(
   $User, 
   FALSE, 
   array('ValidateEmail' => FALSE, 'NoConfirmEmail' => TRUE));

5. Start the session as the user:

Gdn::Session()->Start($UserID, TRUE)

BassEncoding

I did that, but the Gdn::Session()->Start($UserID, TRUE); returns null and don't do nothing
Thanks for helping

<?php
// Define the plugin:
$PluginInfo['HTTPAuth'] = array(
   'Description' => 'HTTP / HTACCESS auto login',
   'Version' => '1.0',
   'Author' => "Maxime",
   'AuthorEmail' => '***@gmail.com',
   'AuthorUrl' => ''
);

class AuthentificationHttpPlugin extends Gdn_Plugin
{
        public function Gdn_Dispatcher_BeforeDispatch_Handler($Sender)
        {
                //We check that the user isn't already logged
                if (Gdn::Session()->UserID > 0) return; 

                //We check the htaccess login
                $httpusername = (string) $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'];
                echo('http username = ' . $httpusername);

                //We check if the user exists
                if(!Gdn::UserModel()->GetByUsername($httpusername))
                {
                        echo "<p> User doesnt exists </p>";
                        //If not, we create it
                        $UserID = Gdn::UserModel()->InsertForBasic(
                                $username,
                                FALSE,
                                array('ValidateEmail' => FALSE, 'NoConfirmEmail' => TRUE));
                }
                else
                {
                        echo "<p> User exists </p>";
                        $UserID = $httpusername;
                }

                var_dump(Gdn::Session()->Start($UserID, TRUE)); //Returns NULL
        }
}
?>

BassEncoding

Sorry for code format, I try but I don't find how to format it fine...

BassEncoding

Nobody have an idea of why the Gdn::Session()->Start() doesn't works ? I did search in existing plugins about a redirection to do after the Session->Start(), but I didn't find anything working

Todd

Gdn::Session()->Start() doesn't return anything, but sets the cookie. Try dumping Gdn::Session()->User after that.

BassEncoding

Thanks so much for reply !

Gdn::Session()->Start($UserID, true);
var_dump(Gdn::Session()->User);

returns a bool(false)