How to access existing database .......

innocent_admin

Hey guys,

I managed to get a open source forum phpbb. it has its own database table for storing username and password. I want to use the same user name password to give access to my forum members to my membesr only area of the website -- like only membesr can download the stuff of the net or they have to register. In that case they will ahev same username and pass for forum.

in the nutshelll, I want to have a common database for my website and my forum. -- Any help!!

Thank you --😃

TheDefender

Sessions/Cookies... You will have to pull apart the phpBB code to see how they do it, and just pick out the specific code for reading the sessions/cookies, and applying that to your member specific pages.

MrCool

I'm kinda trying the same, don't forget to inculde the phpbb's common and the session start which are at the top of all pages.

Drakla

Hiya.

I've had a look at the php cookie and it contains a serialised array containing the users id and their hashed password -

$user = unserialise( $_COOKIE['phpbb2mysql_data'] );

will give you an array containing

$user[userid] -> 29
$user[autologinid] -> 742929dcb631403d7c1c1cfbd2ca2742

Both of those values can be checked against your phpbb database

$query="SELECT username from phpbb_users where user_id=$user[userid] AND user_password=$user[autologinid]";

Your cookie name and database name might well be different.

And I'm not sure - but you might have to stripslashes from the cookie as I did all this with inspection, and it does have slashes in it.

Good luck!