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Topic: Current website members system integration
Posted By: lostcontrol
Subject: Current website members system integration
Date Posted: 14 January 2006 at 12:08pm
Hello,

I have only download webwiz forums a couple of days ago for evaluation purposes along with other asp forums. I think the webwiz forum is by far the best i could find!

I would like to ask a question about the way the forum authenticates users and how i can encorporate a current members system i have on my website with the forum.

So, people would not be logging in through the forum but through my current login form but i would like the forum to recognise such users. I assume I can use the same cookies values as the forum (?).. but i wanted to know if the whole idea is possible or not?

Many thanks!



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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 14 January 2006 at 12:36pm
Probally the simlest solution is to modfy the forum login and sign-up to use in your own site.

In Web Wiz Forums passowrds are 160bit one way encrypted.

When you login your password is 160bit encrypted and matched up to the users password in the database.

If username and password match a usercode is created and stored in the database and a cookie.

This usercode cookie is used to track the user throughout the forum to keep them logged in.


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Posted By: lostcontrol
Date Posted: 14 January 2006 at 1:01pm
So, i can make my current members system to validate users against my current userbase and then generate the usercode and store it  to the webwiz forum db along with a cookie... will that make the forum work ok for users?

thanks for your respond!


Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 14 January 2006 at 1:47pm
It may work, but I would imagine it would be simpler using the forum database for your member database.

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Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 15 January 2006 at 1:43am
The way, I've done it is to have my site wirte the WWF cookie and use the cookie to validate WWF users. The users are automatically inserted into the WWF table and removed the links to WWF registration, profiles, login and password requests.

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Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 15 January 2006 at 1:52am
On ones of my sites, I use the forum database as the member database, and it works perfectly. 
 
Unless your existing member system on your site is very complex, I would also recommend using Web Wiz Forums to manage the members for a number of reasons.  1.) Web Wiz Forums is more secure than many other login/membership systems.  2.) Its usually easier to modify the rest of the site to use Web Wiz Forums membership management than the other way around.
 
In most cases you would be able to simply add code to the header of your pages (as an include) that checks if people are logged into WWF.  I simply included WWF's common.asp which does that automatically, but you could streamline it by creating your own include that checks if people are logged in (i.e. your pages don't need everything in common.asp, so you could eliminate some overhead by creating an include with just what you need in it).  You then use the ASP variables set by common.asp to determine if someone is logged in, who they are, and what permissions they should have... passing that information onto whatever scripts you are using on the rest of your website.
 
If you have code or scripts that are looking for a specific cookies or session variables, you can modify the login script in WWF to set those in addition to the standard WWF ones.
 
I also created login pages that automatically redirect you back to the page you were on (based on the login page that WWF uses).
 
Since WWF's code is well documented and commented, it is easy to mod(ify).
 
I haven't upgraded to 8.0 yet, but as soon as 8.0 stable is out, I will begin making those 8.0 mods. Big smile


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Posted By: danm
Date Posted: 22 February 2006 at 4:46pm
Originally posted by wistex wistex wrote:

 
I haven't upgraded to 8.0 yet, but as soon as 8.0 stable is out, I will begin making those 8.0 mods. Big smile


Hi,

did you manage to write the mode for this forum version.
I would be very interested to integrate the login engine from WWF in my site.

Thank you


Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 23 February 2006 at 9:55pm
Here is my http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=7929 - Quick & Dirty Site Integration Tutorial that I wrote awhile back.  It explains what needs to be done to make it work.

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