Integrating Phorum with my sites Users DB

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$user_id = $_SESSION[';user_id';];
$user = phorum_api_user_get($user_id);
if (empty($user)) {
    trigger_error("User with user_id $user_id does not yet exist in Phorum!", E_USER_ERROR);
}

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modd.php
<?php


/* phorum module info
title: MySite External Authentication For Phorum
author: Me: This module allows authentication to Phorum from MySite external application
hook: user_session_restore|mod_phorum_User_Session_Restore
*/

if(!defined("PHORUM")) return;

session_start();


function mod_phorum_User_Session_Restore($data){

// This function restores the Phorum session, inherited from the site SESSION.

// We do not want to run this when we're in the admin or upgrade interface.
if (defined('PHORUM_ADMIN') || defined('PHORUM5_CONVERSION')) return $data;

global $PHORUM_CONNECTOR;

// Retrieve the user_id of the current user from the PHP session data. The user_id is really the
// only thing that needs to be remembered for a Phorum session, because all other data for the user is stored
// in the database. If no user id was set in the session, then use FALSE to flag this to Phorum.

$phorum_user_id = empty($_SESSION['user_id'])? FALSE : $_SESSION['user_id'];

// Populate the user_session_restore hook

$data[PHORUM_SESSION_LONG_TERM] = $phorum_user_id;
$data[PHORUM_SESSION_SHORT_TERM] = $phorum_user_id;

// Check tshe admin status of user, and set flags accordingly

if ($phorum_user_id) { // Find admin status by looking at Phorum "Admin" flag
// check admin flag
$user_data = phorum_api_user_get($phorum_user_id);
if ($user_data && ($user_data['admin'] > 0)) { // Admins are "1"
// user is admin
$data[PHORUM_SESSION_ADMIN] = $phorum_user_id;
}
else {
// User is not admin
$data[PHORUM_SESSION_ADMIN] = FALSE;
}
}

return $data;

}
?>

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function updatePhorumUser() {
		global $dbh;
		global $uid;
		//Phorum
		// Add the new user to the Phorum users table
 
		$curcwd = getcwd();
		$dir = $curcwd . "/forum";
		chdir( $dir );
 
		define("PHORUM", 1);
		global $PHORUM;
 
		//Phorum Includes
 
		include_once("./include/db/config.php");
		include_once("./include/db/mysql.php");
		include_once("./include/api/base.php");
		include_once("./include/api/user.php");
 
		// Get the new MB user_id from the INSERT
		foreach($dbh->query("Select * From users Where uid = ';$uid';") as $row);
 
		$Phorum_user_id = $row[';uid';];
		$Phorum_Username = $row[';username';];
		$Phorum_Password = $row[';password';];
		$Phorum_Email = $row[';email';];
		if($row[';permissions';] == "admin"){
			$Phorum_Admin = 1;
		} else { 
			$Phorum_Admin = 0;
		}
		//die($Phorum_user_id);
 
		$user = array(
			"user_id"   => $Phorum_user_id,
			"username"  => $Phorum_Username,
			"password"  => $Phorum_Password,
			"email"     => $Phorum_Email,
			"admin"     => $Phorum_Admin,
			"active"    => PHORUM_USER_ACTIVE
		);
		phorum_api_user_save($user, PHORUM_FLAG_RAW_PASSWORD);		
 
		chdir($curcwd);
		//End Phorum
	}