Quick Authentication

I had a need to check if someone was logged in via Phorum without all the heavy loading of all the Phorum code. This would be used to load the user's info on every page of a web site for example. There is no interface here to update the user info or anything. Just a script to check their cookie and load the user info in $USER. You will need your cookie's path set to / for this work across your site.

quick_auth.php (5.0)
quick_auth.php (5.1)
quick_auth.php (5.2)

Brian - Personal Blog

Edited 10 time(s). Last edit at 10/16/2007 09:07AM by brianlmoon.

what would be an example of a general use for someth like this? perhaps integration with some other web app?

sazaraki Wrote:
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> what would be an example of a general use for
> someth like this? perhaps integration with some
> other web app?


I have a big use of it. In fact, on my website, there is a challenge where users have to login on the forum to be able to try it out. For the moment, I simply use a little script that checks the cookie: it is VERY vulnerable! So this script is simply EXELLANT!
Thanks a lot brianlmoon ;)

Hello Brianlmoon,

Can you explain how to run this option ?

We have to install mods and on each page we should make an include(?) ?

Thank you for your answer.

This is a new version that fixes an issue with users with a space in their user name.

Brian - Personal Blog

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2005 01:05PM by brianlmoon.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/lyruneda/public_html/test.php on line 19

Line 19:
foreach($USER["user_data"] as $key=>$data){

All I did was change mention of phorum in the board url path to the directory I named my phorum, but was I supposed to change anything else?

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"Everything we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream." -Edgar Allan Poe

Asked Brian and he updated the script with a line that had been missing in the previous attachments. So to save him time of having to repost it, here it is.

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"Everything we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream." -Edgar Allan Poe

Does anybody know how to alter this script into having an 'if logged in, echo username', 'if not logged in, echo 'not logged in''? Or would this be the wrong script to alter for that?

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"Everything we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream." -Edgar Allan Poe

Well, once this script is in place, you will have a $USER variable that you can use anywhere you want.

if($USER["user_id"]){
    echo "logged in";
} else {
    echo "logged out";
}

Brian - Personal Blog

Thank you for posting this Brian, it was just what I needed.
Custom user profile fields are also included in $USER in case anyone was wondering.

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