Bram de Jong - MTG wrote: Actually I havn't really added in the missing bits or mediawiki yet.. I guess I will add some custom fields into the registration for phpbb and edit the registratino scripts. Now when you mention it hanv't even investigated which the "missing bits" really are.. if any.. so I feel kind of stupid now. When you start hacking these things future upgrades are not possible. I would run an update on my phpbb.. or actually I did work... at all. So my though it now that if I do this now.. I'm pretty much stuck with the releases I got installed. But of course, upgrades can be done manually with a little bit of diff and patience... phpbb is pretty much ruined if you install any mods och extensions.. I took an easy turn here and just posted the details along via GET, I did encrypt the password first though and removed the encryption in the phpbb login-script. That should be secure enough. Don't feel very confident about this though, but it seems to work. I would prefer to figure out the login-function in mediawiki and just include that and run it in the phpbb-script, I hanv't quite figured it out though and with all the path and includes it kind of confusing.. Let me know if you find something clever. /peter

Rowan Collins wrote: I had the same though, of actually just genrate the appropriate login cookies and session variables. Sure that would have been easier. I don't know why I didn't actually. I just took a random solution of the two. Maybe that would have been just easier and better. Maybe I will redo it like that. I might mention that this project of mine is very small, it is just a small community for some people and at the moment I only have about 20 users, and don't expept the number to grow, that doesn't excuse my simple hacks, but might explain them. About shared user management. The ideas of having one shared login system is not that bad. We already see things like Microsoft Passport and Drupal and the thought is not bad at all, but what we need would rather be a user management framework with database, registration and login than a shared global database that those systems use. That would be nice. /peter

On Fri, 2004-12-11 at 19:28 +0100, Bram de Jong wrote: !!!!!!!!!!!! I shudder to think of the quality of code in phpBB that would make MediaWiki look organized by comparison. Is it written by monkeys? ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou <evan(a)wikitravel.org>

Bram de Jong wrote: Even though it seems like a bad idea to merge the two user-tables together it was actually pretty straight forward and easily done. The PHPBB-registration just have to be slightly modified to insert the extra data need for MediaWiki (if any at all), and then just do some search and replace-action in the wiki to change the table name. Seems like better idea than to have double entries and memberships. The login seems pretty ease. PHPBB uses cookies and MediaWiki uses sessionsvariables. To each, one for user id and one for username. Both have one extra for remembering the login for next session. Setting them both should do the trick. Just modify the skin and change all links to the registration on phpbb and remove the form at the login-page. That should do the trick. /peter

PHPBB does not today support LDAP authentication but version 2.2 will. There are several mods for LDAP to install though. Keep us updated on your work, it seems to be more people than me that could use something like that. /peter Victor Fariña wrote: