Separate login page

Tellendil · September 2014

Hi !

I'm trying to setup a website with Vanilla as a forum and I'd like SSO. As I am building the site from scratch, I'd like to use Vanilla's login system.

The problem is I am unable to login if I am in / and Vanilla is in /forum. I think the problem is the TransientKey, but I'm unable to be sure if it's really this.

Does somebody has an idea ?

thanks a lot !

Bleistivt · September 2014

No, the TransientKey only protects you from CRSF attacks:
http://vanillaforums.org/entry/signout

Without the TransientKey I could've tricked you into logging yourself out of this forum.

edit: for some reason, I can actually log myself out with that link... that's weird.

To use a Vanilla Session on a seperate page, you need to either:

Load the garden framework into your external script (take a look how Glue does it: https://github.com/lincolnwebs/Glue/blob/master/wp-content/plugins/glue/vanilla.php )
Use this snippet: https://gist.github.com/lincolnwebs/700805

If you are building your site from scrath anyway, you could also build it entirely on the garden framework.

Tellendil · September 2014

Thanks a lot for this quick answer ! I'll look at Glue's work !

I've already used the snippet when the user is already logged in, the problem is when it is not ;

Thanks again

hgtonight · September 2014

If you are building the site from scratch and want to use Vanilla's login system, just build your application on top of Garden.

It is set up for standard MVC development with the user, profile, activity done for you.

Tellendil · September 2014

Hey ! Thanks hgtonight, that's what I'm thinking to do now, but I can't find proper documentation for creating an app with garden (I understood it should be placed in the applications folder of the vanilla forum but not really much more.

Could you point out a tutorial or something ? Most links are not up to date anymore.

Thanks !

peregrine · September 2014

look at http://vanillaforums.org/addon/browse/applications

that's pretty much what everyone does, look at examples.

also you can look at conversations. it is an app

look at skeleton as well, and read the comments in the files

hgtonight · September 2014

@Tellendil‌ I am not sure what type of functionality you are building. If you are just looking to have some static pages, check out the Basic Pages application: http://vanillaforums.org/addon/basicpages-application

Are you familiar with Model-View-Controller (MVC)? If you are, all your controllers are placed in the /applications/yourapp/controllers and extend Gdn_Controller. Your models are placed in /applications/yourapp/controllers and should extend Gdn_Model. Views are placed in /applications/yourapp/views.

I think the official documentation does a pretty good job of explaining how the framework works.

Feel free to ask questions if you get stuck.

Tellendil · September 2014

@hgtonight‌ Thanks a lot !

I'm not quite familiar with it, but I know the theory. I found hard to understand the frameworks' code and most things were not quite up to date on tutorials about it, but I hadden't read vanilla's doc for it, I was searching garden's doc. This will indeed help !

Maybe you can just help me for one last important thing which disturbs me with vanilla : which view page do I need to modify to change the login, which I don't like at all (redefining the html, I want a nice bootstrap's modal instead of this overlay), I searched but did not find it.

Thanks a lot for your help, this...well... helps a lot

Bleistivt · September 2014

The view is in applications/dashboard/views/entry/signin.php

But modifying that won't help you with the popup.

I'd instead try to copy that over from the bootstrap theme, which has adapted the popup to look like the bootstrap modals:
https://github.com/kasperisager/vanilla-bootstrap/blob/master/less/components/modals.less

Tellendil · September 2014

thanks a lot ! I'll look at it

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