[Willing to pay] User Info/Login outside Vanilla installation?

Hey everyone, would it be possible to have things such as a login field and user icon/name displayed outside of a Vanilla installation? I'm using Wordpress 2.5 and got the Jasmine plugin working with the comments (comment link on WP blog post leads to an automatically created forum post) and I see no reason to merge WP with Vanilla anymore, if only people could login into Vanilla from the WP end too. Thanks!

wohoo

Update / I'm willing to pay a little something through PayPal if someone could guide me through on how to accomplish this. I've gone through the topics here and it looks as if its possible, but I lack the coding expertise to do this on my own. At the very least I'm looking to have the "Not signed in (Sign In) / Signed in as wohoo (Sign Out)" on my Wordpress pages.

Hamed

how much will you pay ( i am not a programmer?) but i was thinking if it was not expensive i could ask for something like this too or maybe you could share but i know that would be hard for you especially if it is a lot of money

wohoo

Well by the sounds of it, for the people who know what they're doing, it's pretty easy. So all it would take is for a knowlegdable person to type up a well written how-to guide for newbies like myself. I'd be willing to throw in $25 for just the "Not signed in (Sign In) / Signed in as wohoo (Sign Out)" implementation and $50 for the whole deal. And if someone does this, I have no problem sharing it with everyone. I just need it asap, so I'm willing to pay a little.

Hamed

awesome! that is super! is this just for wordpress or for any external page? jw

wohoo

I'd need it just for the latest Wordpress. But I'd imagine it'd work for any internal page, not sure though.

Hamed

oh yes i see i wonder why no one has posted here yet hope they do ^_^

squirrel

It's certainly possible. Any script can pull data out of a session and a script that has your Vanilla database login info can pull from Vanilla's DB. But to make that info show up in Wordpress, you're talking about a Wordpress plugin rather than a Vanilla extension.

Out of curiosity, why are you dropping the integration between WP and Vanilla?

squirrel

Here's the relevant code in Vanilla:

library/People/People.Class.Authenticator.php, GetIdentity() on line 107.
Gets the user ID from the session or from cookies.

library/People/People.Class.UserManager.php, GetSessionDataById() on line 527.
Given a user ID, gets user properties from the database.

The really fast and nasty way to do it would be some PHP code like this:

<?php
ini_set('include_path', ini_get('include_path') . PATH_SEPARATOR . $path_to_vanilla);
include('appg/settings.php');
$Configuration['SELF_URL'] = 'norender';
include('appg/init_vanilla.php');

echo $Context->Session->User->Name;
?>


But that would pull a lot of Vanilla code into every load of your Wordpress page, which probably isn't what you want.

wohoo

I have no idea what to do with that information :) But I'm trying to stay away from the WP-Vanilla integration because: (a) by the sounds of it, too many things that can go wrong whenever something gets updated (b) I don't like to manage things I don't understand I'm actually using Janine to get Vanilla handle the comments for my WP posts so I only need to have the user/login info on the WP end as well. I don't need it for anything else. The way I'm designing my Vanilla is so it'll look completely like my site itself, and it would look a bit weird of there's only the ability to log in from half the site. Either a WP plugin or just a piece of code I could hardcode into my template would be fine.

wohoo

Ok, how and where do I use that? I tried putting that into my sidebar (with correct paths to settings.php and init_vanilla.php) and all I get is a bunch of errors. What else/where else do I need to include?

Warning: main(http://www.thatblognetwork.com/tvgbtest/forums/appg/settings.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 133

Warning: main(http://www.thatblognetwork.com/tvgbtest/forums/appg/settings.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 133

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://www.thatblognetwork.com/tvgbtest/forums/appg/settings.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:') in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 133

Warning: main(http://www.thatblognetwork.com/tvgbtest/forums/appg/init_vanilla.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 135

Warning: main(http://www.thatblognetwork.com/tvgbtest/forums/appg/init_vanilla.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 135

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://www.thatblognetwork.com/tvgbtest/forums/appg/init_vanilla.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:') in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 135

squirrel

$path_to_vanilla means the directory path, not the URL path. In your case it looks like it would be /home/wohoo/public_html/forums

But it still probably wouldn't work because I'm guessing WP renders the sidebar from inside a function and class declarations aren't valid inside a function.

If you didn't understand that last sentence, then this is not a path you want to go down.

Honestly I think the WP integration is a better bet for you. When you don't understand the code it's always better to go with a proven solution rather than a customized one.

wohoo

Like this you mean?


<?php
ini_set('include_path', ini_get('include_path') . PATH_SEPARATOR . /home/wohoo/public_html/forums);
include('appg/settings.php');
$Configuration['SELF_URL'] = 'norender';
include('appg/init_vanilla.php');

echo $Context->Session->User->Name;
?>

If so, then this is what I'm getting now:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '/' in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 132

If I insert it without the "/", like this:

<?php
ini_set('include_path', ini_get('include_path') . PATH_SEPARATOR . home/wohoo/public_html/forums);
include('appg/settings.php');
$Configuration['SELF_URL'] = 'norender';
include('appg/init_vanilla.php');

echo $Context->Session->User->Name;
?>

then I get these errors:

Warning: Division by zero in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 129

Warning: Division by zero in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 129

Warning: Division by zero in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 129

Warning: main(appg/settings.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 130

Warning: main(appg/settings.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 130

Warning: main(appg/settings.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 130

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'appg/settings.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:') in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 130

Warning: main(appg/init_vanilla.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 132

Warning: main(appg/init_vanilla.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 132

Warning: main(appg/init_vanilla.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 132

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'appg/init_vanilla.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:') in /home/wohoo/public_html/tvgbtest/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 132

The reason I'm staying away from integration is so whenever something goes wrong, I can just disable a plugin or quickly remove the code from the WP end. But if it's all integrated, then doing that would be much more difficult. No?

circuit

i asked the same question here, but have so far not had any answers. i did find a wordpress support thread asking the same question.

http://lussumo.com/community/discussion/7278/

fysicsluvr

check your parentheses on that line; you have one more ")" than you do "("