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Automatically create user in an extranet [message #18076]

Wed, 05 May 2004 16:22

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I am trying to create a user in a client's extranet and create a FUD user at the same time. Then, when the user logs into the extranet and clicks on a link, they are to get logged into fud.

At the moment, if we create the user in FUD, the click to login works...the problem is creating the user when we create the user in the extranet. We can't post the same for FUD uses because we don't have the admin cookies set to do so. We have currently entered the users by doing:

$query = "insert into fud26_users (login, alias, passwd, name, email, join_date, last_read) values ('$login','$login',md5('$password'),'$name','$email','$datestamp','$datesta mp') ";
$sth=$dtools->query($dbh2,$query, 'Q1238');
$sth->finish;

#fetch the new user id
$query = "select id from fud26_users where login = '$login'";
$sth=$dtools->query($dbh2,$query);
($id)= $sth->fetchrow;
$sth->finish;

$query = "insert into fud26_group_members (user_id, group_id, group_members_opt) values ('$id','$group','3276951')";
$sth=$dtools->query($dbh2,$query);
$sth->finish;

When we try and login we get a "NO SUCH URL" error.

Please help ASAP, we were supposed to go live with this a couple of days ago. We've been struggling with it for a while.

Thanks,
Anne

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Re: Automatically create user in an extranet [message #18082 is a reply to message #18076]

Thu, 06 May 2004 12:20

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Don't create a user by running the queries manually, instead use the add_user() method of the fud_user_reg class defined inside users_reg.inc.

You can find usage examples inside scripts_common.inc file.

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Re: Automatically create user in an extranet [message #18084 is a reply to message #18076]

Thu, 06 May 2004 12:57

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But how can I do that without an admin cookie set?

Anne

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Re: Automatically create user in an extranet [message #18085 is a reply to message #18084]

Thu, 06 May 2004 13:16

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It's an API function, it does not need any admin stuff if you call it from a PHP script of your own.

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Re: Automatically create user in an extranet [message #18088 is a reply to message #18082]

Thu, 06 May 2004 14:45

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alright, I see how to add and delete a users. We also need to add them to a group with a certain set of permissions. There doesn't appear to be an include for this...there appears to be one for adding a group with members, but not adding members to an existing group. Is there a function for this? Can I enter this into the db directly?

Anne

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Re: Automatically create user in an extranet [message #18089 is a reply to message #18088]

Thu, 06 May 2004 15:07

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For group permissions consult the groupmgr.php file.

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Re: Automatically create user in an extranet [message #18090 is a reply to message #18089]

Thu, 06 May 2004 15:08

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Is this for adding users to a group too?

Anne

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Re: Automatically create user in an extranet [message #18091 is a reply to message #18090]

Thu, 06 May 2004 15:11

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There are no functions to add a user, but you can see how it's done by looking @ the code inside the file I've indicated.

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Re: Automatically create user in an extranet [message #18092 is a reply to message #18076]

Thu, 06 May 2004 15:21

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Thanks for all your help.

Anne

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Re: Automatically create user in an extranet [message #18919 is a reply to message #18076]

Thu, 17 June 2004 01:47

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I was reading this thread to see how someone can add a user to both an 'external' application and the FUDforum.

I see someone specified how to ADD a user via a class method, but how would you log this person on if they logon to the 'external' application first?

Thanks in advance,

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Re: Automatically create user in an extranet [message #18921 is a reply to message #18919]

Thu, 17 June 2004 02:15

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If the external application is a web app you can use a cookie to pass the login information to the forum.

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Re: Automatically create user in an extranet [message #18924 is a reply to message #18921]

Thu, 17 June 2004 02:19

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Is this explained anywhere? Attributes to send?

What about a attributes set within $_SESSION?

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Re: Automatically create user in an extranet [message #18925 is a reply to message #18924]

Thu, 17 June 2004 02:23

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FUDforum uses it's own sessions mechanism, not the native PHP one. Look into the cookies.inc.t code.

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Re: Automatically create user in an extranet [message #19585 is a reply to message #18924]

Sun, 08 August 2004 18:10

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Quote:

If the external application is a web app you can use a cookie to pass the login information to the forum.

Can you eloborate on this? It doesn't seem to follow from the content of cookies.inc.t.

In the meantime, there is another possible approach, just generate an invisible form and submit it using JavaScript:

<html>
<body>
<form action='/path/to/fud/index.php?t=login' method='post' name='frm'>
<?php
  echo "<input type='hidden' name='quick_login' value='" . $username . "'>";
  echo "<input type='hidden' name='quick_password' value='" . $passwd . "'>";
?>
</form>
<script language="JavaScript">
document.frm.submit();
</script>
</body>
</html>

Maybe not as clean as setting the right cookie(s), but certainly easy to understand and implement.

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Re: Automatically create user in an extranet [message #19591 is a reply to message #19585]

Mon, 09 August 2004 10:14

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When you login to the forum the forum creates you a session and stores it inside a cookie. Basically if the remote application does the same thing then forum can just pickup on the created cookie and use it.

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