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  • van tien
    New Member
    • Oct 2017
    • 6
    • 5.0.x

    The problem of logging into vBulletin forums via external application.

    Hello everybody.
    I have a third party application which does the authentication and wants to log the user into a locally installed vBulletin instance at the same time. The only way to log in is via this third party app. This is what I have where $vbpath is the path to the vBulletin installation and $username is the name of the user to log in:

    Code:
    require_once($vbpath . '/includes/vb5/autoloader.php');
    \vB5_Autoloader::register($vbpath);
    \vB5_Frontend_Application::init('config.php');
    \vB::getDbAssertor()->delete('session', array('sessionhash' => \vB::getCurrentSession()->get('dbsessionhash')));
    $username = \vB_String::htmlSpecialCharsUni($username);
    $userinfo = \vB::getDbAssertor()->getRow('user', array('username' => $username));
    $auth = array_intersect_key($userinfo, array_flip(['userid', 'lastvisit', 'lastactivity']));
    $loginInfo = \vB_User::processNewLogin($auth);
    \vB5_Auth::setLoginCookies($loginInfo);
    at first sight it seems to work but I am wondering: is there anything else that needs to be done to properly log into vBulletin 5? I bypassed the API because it seemed the API requires the password and quickly becomes a mess if I store it in the third party app -- it needs to be encrypted using the third party password obviously and it's just a huge syncing mess which I didn't really need.
    Thank you very much!
    Author: du lich viet
  • Wayne Luke
    vBulletin Technical Support Lead
    • Aug 2000
    • 73981

    #2
    This isn't really a pre-sales question. Please ask the owner of your license to add your email to their priority forum support form so we can provide support in the proper area for your version of vBulletin.
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    Wayne Luke
    The Rabid Badger - a vBulletin Cloud demonstration site.
    vBulletin 5 API

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