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Coding new pages
Article ID: 83
Written By: aled owen
Written On: Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:29 pm
Description: This article helps people when they are to build a page on their site which integrates with phpBB2.

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This article explains how to use phpBB for authorization and such things on a website. First of all, we need to make sure that the pages you are going to make dynamic are in php. Therefore, the page should look something like this,

Code: Select all: 'index.php' or 'things.php'

and not like this,

Code: Select all: 'default.asp' or index.html'

The first thing on our phpBB integrated page is the session data. This code looks something like this:

Code: Select all: define('IN_PHPBB', true); $phpbb_root_path = './'; include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc'); include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx); // // Set page ID for session management // $userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_LOGIN); init_userprefs($userdata); // // End session management //

Let me explain all this, first of all. Let's look at this line of code.

Code: Select all: define('IN_PHPBB', true);

This simply means that we are in the phpBB software, it means that you are allowed to view this page.

Code: Select all: $phpbb_root_path = './';

The code here is relatively simple, it lets us know where to find the phpBB root folder. If the directory list is like this:

Code: Select all: index.php downloads.php customise.php support.php dev.php phpBB2/index.php phpBB2/common.php

Then the string for that would be './phpBB2/'. Like this:

Code: Select all: $phpbb_root_path = './phpBB2/';

Carrying on, the following code simply includes the config.php file and the common.php file for various things.

Code: Select all: include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc'); include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);

This code:

Code: Select all: // // Set page ID for session management // $userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_LOGIN); init_userprefs($userdata); // // End session management //

Is just the Management of the Session, this is required.

These following PHP commands allow dynamics's for the user.

Code: Select all: $userdata['username'];

This lets the user get the users username.

Code: Select all: $userdata['user_id'];

The ID of the user.

Code: Select all: $userdata['user_rank'];

The rank of the user. User/Admin.

These can be used in If/Else statements, for instance:

Code: Select all: if ($userdata['user_id'] = $_GET['id']) { echo "Hello. You are " . $userdata['username'] . "."; }

Thanks for reading. I hope you have learned something from this article.

Update: Sept 8, 2007 by battye, changed $userdata['userid'] to the correct $userdata['user_id'] variable.

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