Mambo logon to Parachat

glutton

I want to take a Mambo site logon to be passed to Parachat's logon for single-logon. I simply am new to PHP and barly pass with HTML. I am being forced into via an unanounced bailout by the bum who set us up. Can anyone please help me? I have been reading like crazy, posting at anywhere I can find and trying trial-and-error attempts myself....none bringing results.

My site is[URL=http://]http://www.foreverred.com/[/URL] and the chat is located in two versions (php, html) at [URL=http://]http://www.foreverred.com/index2.html [/URL] or [URL=http://]http://www.foreverred.com/testCHAT.php [/URL] .

Thanks,
Glutton

Rodney_H_

Can you restate your question? I read your post twice and don't quite understand WHAT you are asking??!!!

glutton

Sure....we have a site designed with Mambo (php). I would like to pass the username from the visitor logon over to a HTML page carrying the code for Parachat. I can not figure it out with my limited know-not-how and was hoping for some help. I am quite new to all of this and could use a leg-up. I can not figure out how to call up the variable form the logon module and bring it into the HTML page.

BTW:Thank you for a response.

Roger_Ramjet

Don't know Mambo or Parachat, but I do know basic php and html.

To pass a variable from script to script in php you use sessions: does mambo have them?
To pass a variable from html page to html page you usually use <input type=hidden value='var'>: again, can you add those to your Parachat page?

Of course, the other option is to use cookies to store the logon data.

glutton

Parachat is chat software (html) and they offer the code:

where "$name" is meant to take the desired variable and adopt it as the logon for Prachat. Mambo has PHP and SQL to process info, and "modules" are the add on sub programs that make up the whole. I guess I was hoping for someone who knew PHP, HTML and was familiar with Mambo! 🙂

Although I am far from savy, I can usually find my way eventually so I think even with a few strong hints I could fumble my way through it. I posted the links so that anyone kind enough to try, could view the source and get a peak at the code.

Thanks for the effort so far, and if you have anything else I would appreciate it!

Thank You,
Glut

leatherback

Hi,

In the form-processing page (The page which checks whether a user is logged in) of your main website, findout what the username variable is, which is retrieved from the $_POST array. (Easiest is probably to look at the login form, and look at the name="" tag of the login form. Search for that value in the processing form:

e.g.: In the loginform you have
<input type=text name=username> Fill out your username

THen in the page which processes that information, search for username or $_POST[username].

IF the pages use sessions Check for session_start(); in the pages. If it is there: Sessions are used you can then set a session avriable:

$SESSION[user] = $POST['username'];

In the line:
<param name="ctrl.Nickname" value="$name">

you then do:
<param name="ctrl.Nickname" value="$_SESSION[user]">