Using Vanilla Session Outside of Vanilla - External Session

gabessdsp

So I'm trying to use the Vanillaforum session with my entire website, so that the user can sign up on the forums, and then that same account will be used on the rest of the website. I have some basic code that should show wheter a user is logged in or not but it's not working. Anybody able to help? Vanilla version 2.0.18.1

<?php
define('APPLICATION', 'Vanilla');
define('APPLICATION_VERSION', '2.0.16');
define('DS', '/');
define('PATH_ROOT', 'http://crimsonlakemc.com/forums/');
ob_start();
require_once(PATH_ROOT.DS.'bootstrap.php');
ob_end_clean(); // clear any header output from vanila
$Session = Gdn::Session();
$Authenticator = Gdn::Authenticator();
if ($Session->IsValid()) {
   $Name = $Session->User->Name;
   echo "You are logged in as $Name";
}else{
  echo "You are not logged in";
}
?>

and I get this error message:
Warning: require_once(): http:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by allow_url_include=0 in \xampp\htdocs\crimsonlakemc\content\Home.php on line 11

Warning: require_once(http://crimsonlakemc.com/forums//bootstrap.php): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in \xampp\htdocs\crimsonlakemc\content\Home.php on line 11

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'http://crimsonlakemc.com/forums//bootstrap.php' (include_path='.;D:\xampp\php\PEAR') in \xampp\htdocs\crimsonlakemc\content\Home.php on line 11

gabessdsp

EDIT: vanilla Version is 2.0.18.8

gabessdsp

So I actually just figured out that I had to change it to not use http://

But now it tells me that I am not logged in.

Anybody able to lead me with more help into using Vanilla's session outside of the forums?

Shadowdare

@gabessdsp said:
So I actually just figured out that I had to change it to not use http://

Is the forums hosted on the same server as the rest of the website? It's better to use local absolute or relative file paths if this is the case.

Anybody able to lead me with more help into using Vanilla's session outside of the forums?

Here's an example script I just put together that will let you check the user's session outside of Vanilla. Read the comments next to some of code to learn more about what its doing.

<?php

/*
 * Include the Garden framework used by Vanilla.
 */
// Define constants like the way that Vanilla does in its index.php file.
define('APPLICATION', 'Vanilla');
define('APPLICATION_VERSION', '2.0.18.8');
define('DS', '/');
define('PATH_ROOT', './forum'); // Change PATH_ROOT to the path to your forum.

// Display all PHP errors for development purposes.
error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_PARSE | E_CORE_ERROR | E_COMPILE_ERROR | E_USER_ERROR | E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR);
ini_set('display_errors', 'on');
ini_set('track_errors', 1);

ob_start(); // Buffer the output of the code below.

require_once(PATH_ROOT . '/bootstrap.php'); // Require the bootstrap for the framework used by Vanilla.

$Dispatcher = Gdn::Dispatcher(); // Declare an alias for the dispatcher.

// Set up the dispatcher.
$EnabledApplications = Gdn::ApplicationManager()->EnabledApplicationFolders();
$Dispatcher->EnabledApplicationFolders($EnabledApplications);
$Dispatcher->PassProperty('EnabledApplications', $EnabledApplications);

// Mimic the DiscussionsController().
$Controller = new DiscussionsController();
Gdn::Controller($Controller);

Gdn::Request()->WebRoot('');

ob_end_flush(); // Stop and send the buffer for the code above.

/*
 * The above code is to include Garden framework used by Vanilla, so you can use its functions.
 * You can put your code in this file. See the example below.
 * You can also make a separate file with your code and include this file by a require() above all.
 */
$Session = Gdn::Session(); // Declare an alias for the user session.

// Check if the user session is valid.
if($Session->IsValid())
   echo "The user is logged in!"; // The session is valid, so the user is logged in.
else
   echo "The user is not logged in."; // The session is invalid, so the user is not logged in.

?>

By the way, you can put your code and things that don't get formatted correctly in your posts here by wrapping text in three tildes above and below to make things more readable like this: ~~~

gabessdsp

@Shadowdare said:

Thanks for the tip. And also after adding that script I get this message and I have no idea why...or where it came from

Bonk
Something funky happened. Please bear with us while we iron out the kinks

hgtonight

What is the actual error?

gabessdsp

@hgtonight said:
What is the actual error?

Just figured out that that's not a real error.

Fatal Error in Gdn_Dispatcher.xStart();
The "Gdn_Dispatcher" object does not have a "xStart" method.
The error occurred on or near: /home/content/94/10870394/html/000hosting/crimsonlake/forums/library/core/class.pluggable.php
168:       // Make sure that $ActualMethodName exists before continuing:
169:       if (!method_exists($this, $ActualMethodName)) {
170:          // Make sure that a plugin is not handling the call
171:          if (!Gdn::PluginManager()->HasNewMethod($this->ClassName, $ReferenceMethodName))
172:             trigger_error(ErrorMessage('The "' . $this->ClassName . '" object does not have a "' . $ActualMethodName . '" method.', $this->ClassName, $ActualMethodName), E_USER_ERROR);
173:       }
174: 
175:       // Make sure the arguments get passed in the same way whether firing a custom event or a magic one.
176:       $this->EventArguments = $Arguments;
Backtrace:
/home/content/94/10870394/html/000hosting/crimsonlake/forums/library/core/class.pluggable.phpPHP::Gdn_ErrorHandler();
[/home/content/94/10870394/html/000hosting/crimsonlake/forums/library/core/class.pluggable.php:172] PHP::trigger_error();
[/home/content/94/10870394/html/000hosting/testcrimson/content/Home.php:25] Gdn_Pluggable->__call();
[/home/content/94/10870394/html/000hosting/testcrimson/content/Home.php:25] Gdn_Dispatcher->Start();
[/home/content/94/10870394/html/000hosting/testcrimson/index.php:15] PHP::require_once();
Variables in local scope:
[MethodName] 'Start'
[Arguments] array (
)
[Return] false
[ActualMethodName] 'xStart'
[ReferenceMethodName] 'Start'
[this] array (
  'Request' => '',
  'EventArguments' => 
  array (
  ),
  'Returns' => 
  array (
  ),
  'HandlerType' => 'NORMAL',
)
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Additional information for support personnel:
Application: Vanilla
Application Version: 2.0.18.8
PHP Version: 5.3.24
Operating System: Linux
Server Software: Apache
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36
Request Uri: /index.php?page=Home
Controller: Gdn_Dispatcher
Method: xStart

Shadowdare

The error was caused by the line $Dispatcher->Start(); which is a new method in 2.1+ that's not in 2.0.18.8 that I forgot to remove. I edited the code my last post, so try the edited code.

gabessdsp

@Shadowdare said:
The error was caused by the line $Dispatcher->Start(); which is a new method in 2.1+ that's not in 2.0.18.8 that I forgot to remove. I edited the code my last post, so try the edited code.

added your modified code and the same thing happens that happened with my original code, it says that I am not logged in even though I am.

Shadowdare

It works for me for when I'm logged in and logged out with Vanilla 2.0.18.8.

Add var_dump($Session->User); before the end of the file. Does it output data about the user you're logged in with, such as the user ID and name, or does it error out? You don't need to paste the output here if it does have info about the user you're logged in with.

gabessdsp

@Shadowdare said:
It works for me for when I'm logged in and logged out with Vanilla 2.0.18.8.

Add var_dump($Session->User); before the end of the file. Does it output data about the user you're logged in with, such as the user ID and name, or does it error out? You don't need to paste the output here if it does have info about the user you're logged in with.

all it outputs is this:
bool(false)

Shadowdare

What about var_dump($EnabledApplications);?

gabessdsp

@Shadowdare said:
What about var_dump($EnabledApplications);?

This:

array(3) { [0]=> string(9) "dashboard" [1]=> string(13) "conversations" [2]=> string(7) "vanilla" }

gabessdsp

So any ideas on why it's not picking up the vanilla session?

x00

@gabessdsp said:
So any ideas on why it's not picking up the vanilla session?

if the session cookie is not specific to area then there is no session. check the cookie path.

gabessdsp

@x00 said:
if the session cookie is not specific to area then there is no session. check the cookie path.

Could you explain more? I was given a script and told to change one thing about it and it would work, but it doesn;t. So I don't know where to go.

x00

@gabessdsp said:
Could you explain more? I was given a script and told to change one thing about it and it would work, but it doesn;t. So I don't know where to go.

Any session only exist in the scope of the session cookie.

This is not a cross domain solution.

gabessdsp

@x00 said:

I'm not doing it across different domains

x00

nevertheless you should be able to see the domain an path of the cookie. if it is not in the scope of the script the session doesn't exist.

you can set them

$Configuration['Garden']['Cookie']['Name']  = 'Vanilla';
$Configuration['Garden']['Cookie']['Path']   = '/';
$Configuration['Garden']['Cookie']['Domain']   = '';

gabessdsp

@x00 said:
nevertheless you should be able to see the domain an path of the cookie. if it is not in the scope of the script the session doesn't exist.

you can set them

$Configuration['Garden']['Cookie']['Name']  = 'Vanilla';
$Configuration['Garden']['Cookie']['Path']   = '/';
$Configuration['Garden']['Cookie']['Domain']   = '';

For the domain section do I put the direct domain to my forum or the direct domain to my website?

http://website.com
or
http://website.com/forums

Shadowdare

Use .example.com for your website because you want to have access to Vanilla cookies from the script that is uploaded at another part of your website. When you change the cookie, you should sign out and sign back in to get the updated cookie.