How do i autheticate vanilla users outside vanilla framework

Aolee

Hi guys

cant seem to find any thread related to my case but i found this one instead.

sorry this is a super old thread but its related to what i need

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/3511/authenticating-a-vanilla-user-from-outside-the-vanilla-frameworks/p1

how do i do this in vanilla 2?

thanks in advance!

tester13

http://www.vanilla-wiki.info/Bugs/VariousTips

Aolee

Thanks tester13 ill try it out tomorrow first thing in the morning. Btw i still owe you the front page thumbnail guide in the wiki page. Ill try to add it there too. Thanks so much!

Linc

I use this: https://gist.github.com/700805

Paste your cookie salt from your config.php into that file and it doesn't even require calling up Vanilla. It's stand-alone.

tester13

@Lincoln
Big thanks.
I'll add your recipe to special page about authentification.

tester13

All added to http://www.vanilla-wiki.info/Code/Authorization

Aolee

I use this: https://gist.github.com/700805

Paste your cookie salt from your config.php into that file and it doesn't even require calling up Vanilla. It's stand-alone.

Thanks lincon! i still need a lot of digging to really understand the internals of vanilla.

I hope i can write a classified ads application (something like "open classifieds") someday for vanilla.

Aolee

I use this: https://gist.github.com/700805

Paste your cookie salt from your config.php into that file and it doesn't even require calling up Vanilla. It's stand-alone.

Hi lincon,

i tested it but the class doesn't return the Id,

i did a print_r and it returned me the public variables instead
VanillaIdentity Object ( [CookieName] => Vanilla [CookieSalt] => <value of salt here> [CookieHashMethod] => md5 )
by the way i was getting a syntax error in line 10 so i changed

class VanillaIdentity() {

to

class VanillaIdentity {

Linc

Fixt the parenthesis.

Are you instantiating the class? It should be used as:

$UserID = new VanillaIdentity();

What the heck am I smoking. Updated. Do this:

$Identity = new VanillaIdentity();
echo $Identity->UserID;

Aolee

hi lincon,

sorry for the inconvenience...

After i logged-in and went to the stand alone page (via another tab) it gave me 0 value?

even if i change login in and do a refresh on the stand alone page it also gave me 0.

thanks

Linc

You're on the same domain & subdomain?

Aolee

Hi lincon,

just got back from a vacation, the page is in sub.domain.com while the vanilla framework is in www.domain.com

sub.domain.com docu root => /html/sub/
www.domain.com docu root => /html/vanilla/

by the way just a question

since my page is a standalone page (without any PHP included files)

where does the static call "Gdn_CookieIdentity::_HashHMAC" in the code comes from?
protected static function _Hash($Data, $CookieHashMethod, $CookieSalt) { return Gdn_CookieIdentity::_HashHMAC($CookieHashMethod, $Data, $CookieSalt); }

thanks

Linc

A typo. It should be self::_HashHMAC instead.

They need to be on the same subdomain, or your forum needs to set all-subdomain cookies. (*.domain.com)