Vanilla forums [authenticate outside forum]

Is there anybody here that works with vanilla forums? I want to use the vanilla forums authentication outside the forum. Does anybody know how to do this? I have searched the files for examples but no success, i even googled it but even that was without any success.

Hope someone can help me with this.

Greetz Dizcow

so once they authenticate with the forum on your site, you would like to use that authentication in other parts of the site? eg: a members only area.

Yes correct, with wordpress its easy:

But i cannot find this on vanilla.

Try something along the lines of:

define('APPLICATION', 'Vanilla');
define('APPLICATION_VERSION', '2.0.16');
define('DS', '/');
define('PATH_ROOT', 'path-to-forum');
ob_start();
require_once(PATH_ROOT.DS.'bootstrap.php');
ob_end_clean(); // clear any header output from vanila
$Session = Gdn::Session();
$Authenticator = Gdn::Authenticator();
if ($Session->IsValid()) {
   $Name = $Session->User->Name;
   echo "You are logged in as $Name";
}else{
  echo "You are not logged in";
}

change path-to-forum above.

I’ve just put this on my site, it works from a php script outside of my vanilla forum:

[link]

enjoy!
dave.

Works perfectly, thank you very much for taking the time to help me with this

I can now integrate my account verification for item support.

DizCow said
I can now integrate my account verification for item support.

Feel free to share it when you have it working

I will absolutely do that, ill keep you in touch

Is there any way to check if the user is logged in in the vanilla forum using a WordPress page template?

You can install plug in “php anywhere” if i am correct, then you can use this class to check if user is logged in

http://code.google.com/p/dizcow/downloads/detail?name=vanilla_outdoors_1_0.rar

dtbaker said

DizCow said
I can now integrate my account verification for item support.

Feel free to share it when you have it working

Cant share it here, it will be reported every time i do it