Getting ProxyConnect to work with CakePHP and Croogo

manuweg

I have been trying in vain for many hours to get this working. I have scoured the forums and cannot for the life of me get this to work. Any illumination on the matter would be much appreciated.

I am running:
Vanilla version 2.0.17.8
ProxyConnect version 1.8.4
Cakephp Version 1.3.3
Croogo Version 1.3.2 (cakephp CMS)

I have installed the Vanilla forum in a subfolder app/webroot/vanilla

Install goes smoothly and I upload the proxyconnect plugin into the vanilla plugins folder. I activate it, and then load the following urls:

*Main Site URL The URL of your website where you will use ProxyConnect
http://localhost:8888/cmrs

*Authenticate URL The behind-the-scenes URL that shares identity information with Vanilla
http://localhost:8888/cmrs/users/authenticate

*Registration URL The URL where users can sign up for new accounts on your site
http://localhost:8888/cmrs/register

*Sign-In URL The URL where users sign in on your site
http://localhost:8888/cmrs/users/login?vanilla=1

*Sign-Out URL The URL where users sign out of your site
http://localhost:8888/cmrs/users/logout?vanilla=1

I have created an action in my users_controller called authenticate()

public function authenticate() {
$this->layout = 'ajax';
$this->header('Content-Type: text/plain');
if($this->Auth->user()) {
$data = $this->Auth->user();
$this->set('data', $data);
}
}

I have created a view authenticate.ctp which outputs the data correctly if you access it directly and you are logged in

<?php
if(isset($data)) {
echo 'UniqueID='.$data['User']['id']."\n";
echo 'Name='.$data['User']['username']."\n";
echo 'Email='.$data['User']['email']."\n";
echo 'TransientKey='."\n";
echo 'DateOfBirth='."\n";
echo 'Gender=';
}
?>

Outputs

UniqueID=1
Name=admin
Email=you@your-site.com
TransientKey=
DateOfBirth=
Gender=

In vanilla config.php I have set

$Configuration['Garden']['Cookie']['Domain'] = '.localhost';

In Cakephp bootstrap.php I have set

ini_set('session.cookie_domain', '.localhost');

So, after all that when I click on signin from vanilla I get redirected to the cake app login and when I login I am not logged in in Vanilla Forum.

When I logout from Vanilla I get redirected to the cake app and am logged out from that but not from Vanilla.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

manuweg

So, as it turns out I was doing everything correct except one little thing!
The empty strings in the authenticate output were causing the problem. Get rid of those and voila! It works.