{"id":48,"date":"2014-08-14T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/14\/phpbb-api-auto-login-a-user-without-a-password\/"},"modified":"2021-02-22T01:02:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T01:02:38","slug":"phpbb-api-auto-login-user-without-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/phpbb-api-auto-login-user-without-password.html","title":{"rendered":"phpBB API – Auto Login a User Without a Password"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"phpBB<\/a><\/div>\n
In my previous post, phpBB API – Logging In And Logging Out a User<\/a>, I showed how to login a user to phpBB forum using their username and password.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
However in some cases, you may want to login a user without having or knowing their password.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
phpBB API provides a method to auto login users by just knowing their phpBB ID.<\/div>\n
This can be useful if you have a website connected to phpBB forum and you’re only storing the usernames or IDs in that database. Or if you are implementing a Facebook Login Button on your website and you want to synchronize the session with your phpBB forum.<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

<?php
\ndefine(‘IN_PHPBB’, true);\/\/Must be defined
\n$phpbb_root_path = ‘..\/phpBB3\/’;\/\/your forum directory location
\n$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, ‘.’), 1);
\nrequire_once($phpbb_root_path . ‘common.’ . $phpEx);<\/span><\/p>\n

function phpbbAutoLogin($id)
\n{
\nglobal $phpbb_root_path, $phpEx, $user;<\/p>\n

$user->session_kill(false);\/\/Logout the User – For testing
\n$user->session_begin(); \/\/Start Session
\n$user->session_create($id); \/\/Create Session<\/p>\n

\/\/Check if User has successfully Logged in
\nif($user->data[‘is_registered’]==1 && $user->data[‘user_type’] != USER_INACTIVE && $user->data[‘user_type’] != USER_IGNORE)
\n{
\necho\u00a0 $user->data[‘username’] . ‘ has logged in’;
\n}
\nelse
\n{
\necho ‘Error Logging In’;
\n}
\n}<\/p>\n

\/\/Auto Login User with phpBB User ID 52
\nphpbbAutoLogin(52);
\n?><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Questions? Please let me know!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my previous post, phpBB API – Logging In And Logging Out a User, I showed how to login a user to phpBB forum using their username and password. However in some cases, you may want to login a user without having or knowing their password. phpBB API provides a method to auto login users […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,22,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-api","category-php","category-phpbb3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}