[SHANE-D-PAIN]

First post for no apparent reason but this sounds good.

[rb290]

confused lol

can someone sum it up in a little paragraph and tell me what this is

[Daniel]

Soap on the computer? sweet

[tnguy3n]

I think SOAP must be abreviation of something, but I got no idea what it is.

[mcncyo]

SOAP= Simple Object Access Protocol. It was design to easy interface with the data.

You don't have to call mysql database, call the correct table all you have to do is call the program and it will do the rest. You can make an application to connect to it easy.

[Reeve of shinra]

This has a lot of potential. Off the top of my head, I can see htis being used for folks that want to have 1 user table across different sites.

[Cap'n Steve]

Nice idea.

* Cap'n Steve gets the first install.

[leonsio]

little example to access VB_SOAP(login into vbulletin) with PEAR-SOAP class

( works in php4 and php5 )

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[leonsio]

next version will come with vbulletin cookie support an without phpsession support

so what you can get all needed cookies directly from the vbulletin server ( userid and password as cookie data too )

this feauture can be activated in the admincp

attention, if you will to transfer cookie of userid and password, you should use an ssl connection !!!

this version will come out on monday

and it will include an example to connect the server with cookie support

after first connect ( or login ) you will get an vbulletin-session cookie from the server ( as array )
you can put this cookie in the user session at your application, by next request you can send this cookie with the request

this cookie let you be logged in, at vbulletin
( it create an vbulletin session, if the user login over doLogin function, the user will be displayer on the online.php as logged in on forum )

[Snake]

This is nice! Thanks!

[KevinM]

I'm starting to get excited.. could this be adapted to allow one login across multiple vbulletin forums.

E.g. I have 40 different forums across numerous servers. The Holy Grail of hacks for me would be to when someone registered at one forum, it could work across my network of different forums.

What do you think?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

This sounds very promissing, thank you for sharing.

[leonsio]

Originally Posted by KevinM

I'm starting to get excited.. could this be adapted to allow one login across multiple vbulletin forums.

E.g. I have 40 different forums across numerous servers. The Holy Grail of hacks for me would be to when someone registered at one forum, it could work across my network of different forums.

What do you think?

yes it is posible, you must install VB_SOAP on all your forums
and the login script must walk all soap servers to get userdata and set cookie


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user synchronisation solution ( next version )

i will dont make an feauture which allow you to get or save multiple users at one time
because soap is not designet to send big data cross the internet
on big forums with more as 1000 users it will makes only problems with the transport of data ( http timeouts/ php memory size ... )

but i will make an function, to save user or to get user

how can you synchronize your users on multiple application

the solution is:

example A

you have user A ( with the name test ) on your CMS and user B ( with the same name "test" ) on vbulletin the passwords must be same

the CMS use SHA1 as password hash and vbulletin use MD5

if the user login on the CMS you must make an call to vbulletin with the username and password ( plain ) to vbulletin
and you will get the userid and hashn of password with salt
so you can set cookie and the user is logged in on vbulletin

with the function getUser you can get all data from vbulletin for example to synchronise the data of CMS with vbulletin


example B

you have user A ( with the name test ) on vbulletin but not on CMS

if the user A try to login on CMS, normaly the login will be deny, but you can make an call to vbulletin with the username and password of user A

an if the user will be acceppt, you can get all data from the user with the function "getUser" and create a user A on your CMS


where many application with different authentification methods, so it is not allways posible to synchronise users ( password hash is not match is the biggest problem)
so you should only create your user on CMS if it user login and exist on vbulletin

on registration of the user ( on CMS ) you can make a call to vbulletin with the user data ( function setUser) ans so create a user on vbulletin

[Princeton]

I've been gone for a while ...
this looks great!

Thanks for sharing.