How to protect pages of a website with Phorum (Easy way)

Hello,

I'm installing Phorum on my server.
In my website, I have some pages that I want to protect, using the system of users Phorum's.

For example:

My website is located at the root of my server. Phorum is located in the subfolder called "Forum".
Ok. One person creates a user account's on the forum. So, the user have a username and password.

Perfect. Now, I have a page on my website (root server) that I want to protect. This page is only visible to users of the forum.
How can I protect this page?.

This is my idea:

- User "A" is not registered in the forum. The protected page displays a message like "To see this page, please, create a user account or login.".
- User "B" is registered in the forum. The user can view the contents of this page.

# Question:
- On page I want to protect, what code should I include to protect it?.

Please, I need some code like:
- If user is user Phorum, then shows content. If user is not user Phorum shows warning message.

Waiting your responses, thank you very much.

Toni .-



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/13/2008 09:16PM by tonimad.

You are looking for the quick authentication script.
See this thread.
Using that script, you can check outside Phorum if a user is logged in.

Remember to update the include() line that includes the include/db/config.php. It must load the Phorum database config.php file.

After including the quick authentication script in a PHP page, you can use code like this:

Language: PHP
<?php if (!empty($GLOBALS[';USER';])) { ?>
 
... your protected page code ...
... goes here ...
 
<?php } else { ?>
 
 ... your "register now" page ...
 ... goes here ...
 
<?php } ?>

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce

Fantastic! Thanks Maurice.

The script is running!

One more thing,

- How I show the last 5 post on my website (index.php of my website, no forum)?

Again, thank you very much Maurice.

Toni .-



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/14/2008 05:15AM by tonimad.

The most straight forward way is to use the RSS feature of Phorum for that. There are scripts (both in PHP and pure javascript) that can take an RSS feed and show the last items in a list. I am not using such script myself, but I know that others did.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce

Perfect.

And the last thing :)

I want to put the user options and anonymous user in the top of my php pages (outside folder "phorum"). Searching in header.tpl, I have this code:

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{! Code for logged in users }
{IF LOGGEDIN}
{LANG->Welcome}, <b>{USER->username}</b> <br><br>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right">
<img src="../fx/iconomyprofile.png"> <a href="{URL->REGISTERPROFILE}">{LANG->MyProfile}</a>
{IF ENABLE_PM}
&nbsp;&nbsp;<img src="../fx/pm.png"> <a href="{URL->PM}">
{IF USER->new_private_messages}
<strong>{LANG->NewPrivateMessages}</strong>
{ELSE}
{LANG->PrivateMessages}
{/IF}
</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;<img src="../fx/exit.png"> <a href="{URL->LOGINOUT}">{LANG->LogOut}</a></td></tr></table>
{/IF}

{! Code for anonymous users }
{ELSE}
<img src="../fx/iconologin.png"> <a href="login.php">Login</a> | <img src="../fx/iconoregister.png"> <a href="register.php">Register</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><br><font color=#B8B8B8><b>Wellcome to my forum</font></td></tr></table>
{/IF}
-----------------------------------------------------

How to put this code in a php page without "tags" of tpl sources?

Ever, ever, ever.. thank you!

Toni .-



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/14/2008 08:03AM by tonimad.

With the quick authentication script, your user's data is in $USER.
The template code will need to be translated to pure PHP code, using the data from $USER;
Some translations within this environment (untested, printing URLs is chopped up a bit to prevent BBcode form turning the URLs into clickable links):

{IF LOGGEDIN}
    ....
{/IF}

if (!empty($USER)) {
   ....
}

----------------------

{USER->username}

print htmlspecialchars($USER['username']);

----------------------

{URL->REGISTERPROFILE}

if (empty($USER)) {
    print "http" . "://www.yoursite.com/yourphorumdir/register.php";
} else {
    print "http" . "://www.yoursite.com/yourphorumdir/control.php";
}

----------------------

{URL->LOGINOUT}

if (empty($USER)) {
    print "http" . "://www.yoursite.com/yourphorumdir/login.php";
} else {
    print "http" . "://www.yoursite.com/yourphorumdir/login.php?0,logout=1";
}
----------------------

{IF USER->new_private_messages}
    ....
{ELSE}
    ....
{/IF}

$has_new_pm = phorum_db_pm_checknew($USER['user_id']);
if ($has_new_pm) {
    ....
} else {
    ....
}

When using all this, maybe the different solution angle from this thread is an easier approach to tackle your needs?

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce

Hello Maurice!,

Following your advice, I have designed all the forum and all website with this method. All pages on my website have been converted to files .tpl

Now I use any function of Phorum (identification, registration, user names) and much more on my website. Is fantastic!

After evaluating many systems forums, I find that Phorum is the perfect solution for any website. And a perfect support!

Congratulations. I am recommending Phorum to all my friends and websites of Spain.

Again... ever, ever, thank you very much!

Regards,
Toni .-



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/15/2008 07:06PM by tonimad.

Great! Enjoy the software, both you and your friends!

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce

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Maurice Makaay
There are scripts (both in PHP and pure javascript) that can take an RSS feed and show the last items in a list.

Is this possible to have more information on this ?

I'm looking for a way to use a XML file of the RSS feed into a third application, but how to obtain the XML file available into a specific folder ?

Quote

Is this possible to have more information on this ?

Use google to find the scripts you want ;-).

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I'm looking for a way to use a XML file of the RSS feed into a third application, but how to obtain the XML file available into a specific folder ?

I'm not sure what you are asking for. Every recent Phorum has RSS-URLs to get the RSS-feed, you see them in the header and on index.

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Thomas Seifert