Quick Authentication

It looks a bit like the $USER environment variable (that is set to "root" when the webserver is started) is loaded into the $USER global variable.

This indicates that your provider has the option "register_globals" enabled on the PHP configuration. You might want to inform them about this and request to disable that option. It's one of those ancient PHP quirks that the PHP people want to get rid of a.s.a.p. themselves, because it can cause security issues in code (not Phorum's code BTW, we are aware of this and do our utter best to prent security issues on any configuration).

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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Hi, I'm trying to integrate Phorum with my website using Quick Authentication, but I need to show the user's avatar on certain parts of the site, also I need to verify if the user has the permissions to see the page...

Can Quick Authentication help me to do that or do I need another module? What can I do? Any ideas?

Quick authentication is quick authentication. It checks whether the user is logged into Phorum or not. For the rest, there is no code. There's no magic cool way to have all of Phorum's goodies outside of the Phorum code. It can probably be done, but to me it seems like turning the world up-side-down. When you need all that Phorum stuff, then it's probably easier to create your pages through some module or by including much more of the Phorum core than the stripped down quick authentication alone.

But either way: not an easy job. You need to be a programmer to implement the functionality that you request for there.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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Do you think I'd use the phorum's usernames for my wordpress commenting template with this?

Fex If logged in (to phorum) they'd see the wordpress commenting template and it would fetch their phorum name automatically?

Thanks for the info?