Hello everyone,
I am looking for software that can tie in all of my software together. I want it so that when a user visits my website and logs in to my phpbb forum they are automaticall logged into my classifieds section as well and also my photohosting software and auctions. Whenever someone loggs into any of the above or changes there profile in any of the above I want the login or effected change to occur in all software.
does anyone have any thoughts on this?
I am pretty new to the web world and trying to learn as I go.
thank you all for any and all help,
sean
user management software
Re: user management software
In your site, is it possible for a user to ONLY have access to your Classifieds, without having access to the Forum, or to have access to the Forum without having access to the Auctions, or are all users authorized to visit all sections?
If all users are authorized for all sections, then it's very easy to implement password protection for the pages you need to have protected. The user logs in when he attempts to visit any of the protected areas, and his login information is saved as a "session variable". The session variable can be set to timeout after a certain amount of time (30 minutes, 60 minutes, etc.), or it will expire when the browser is closed. While the session variable is active, each of the other protected pages will see that the session variable is active and will allow access without additional logins.
CMSMS has this functionality using the CustomContent and FrontEndUsers modules. If you're not using CMSMS, there are dozens of other ways to implement this security using ASP scripting, htaccess, etc...
If all users are authorized for all sections, then it's very easy to implement password protection for the pages you need to have protected. The user logs in when he attempts to visit any of the protected areas, and his login information is saved as a "session variable". The session variable can be set to timeout after a certain amount of time (30 minutes, 60 minutes, etc.), or it will expire when the browser is closed. While the session variable is active, each of the other protected pages will see that the session variable is active and will allow access without additional logins.
CMSMS has this functionality using the CustomContent and FrontEndUsers modules. If you're not using CMSMS, there are dozens of other ways to implement this security using ASP scripting, htaccess, etc...
