Need some help with sessions

[Seelmeister]

I am creating a website that uses both phpBB and a CMS, with both sharing the same database.

I would like to use the phpBB members tables for the whole site, so I could provide a login on the other pages, as well as require that users be logged in to post comments etc, but I do not want to be re-directed to the forums when I log in.

I had a look at the sessions.php file and there is a lot I don't understand in there, I'm fairly knew to all this so when do I start?

Also, in the cms there is already a members system for admins, I would like if possible to use the phpBB members system for this as well, because at present I have two accounts which I would like to combine into one. There are two classes of admins in the cms, the superadmin, which is me, and can perform any function in the admin control panel, and other administrators (which corresponds with the moderators in my forums) and have access to a limited array of functions in the control panel.

Would it be possible to achieve this?

[fumbalah]

Take a look at This. which should help you with integrating sessions, but you are on your own in integrating phpBB into a CMS.

[gasteropod]

You probably want this article from the knowledge base:

http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=143

[Seelmeister]

Hmm, I followed the first step of that article, entering code at the top of the pages I want to intergrate, and I get this rather huge error message;

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/gami2674/public_html/index.php:2) in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/sessions.php on line 329

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/gami2674/public_html/index.php:2) in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/sessions.php on line 330

Warning: init_userprefs(language/lang_english/lang_main.): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 280

Warning: init_userprefs(language/lang_english/lang_main.): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 280

Warning: init_userprefs(): Failed opening 'language/lang_english/lang_main.' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 280

Warning: init_userprefs(./includes/lang_extend_mac.): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 294

Warning: init_userprefs(./includes/lang_extend_mac.): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 294

Warning: init_userprefs(): Failed opening './includes/lang_extend_mac.' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 294

Warning: message_die(language/lang_english/lang_main.): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 738

Warning: message_die(language/lang_english/lang_main.): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 738

Warning: message_die(): Failed opening 'language/lang_english/lang_main.' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 738
phpBB :

Could not query database for theme info

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 3

[Seelmeister]

Anyone know why I'm getting this error?

[geocator]

You got several issues. First make sure there are no spaces, blank lines or anything else before the <?php in index.php. Second it seems you did not include extension.inc in your script.

[Seelmeister]

I fiddled around a little with the code any my error message now reads

Warning: main(db/mysql4.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/db.php on line 35

Warning: main(db/mysql4.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/db.php on line 35

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'db/mysql4.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/db.php on line 35

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: sql_db in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/db.php on line 60

EDIT- my code now reads:

define('IN_PHPBB', true);

include('forum/extension.inc');
include('forum/common.php');
//
// Start session management
//
$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX);
init_userprefs($userdata);
//
// End session management
//

[geocator]

For this to work you absolutley must have this chunk of code:

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define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = './';
include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc');
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);

No exceptions. You have to edit the root path to work correctly. There is no alternative to that.

[Seelmeister]

Yeah I saw where that was going when I opened the db.php file.

I edited the code so that $phpBB_root_path is defined correctly, and now my error message has changed again, to this;

Warning: main(../forum/extension.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/templates/global_header.inc.php on line 6

Warning: main(../forum/extension.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/templates/global_header.inc.php on line 6

Warning: main(): Failed opening '../forum/extension.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/gami2674/public_html/templates/global_header.inc.php on line 6

Warning: main(../forum/common.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/templates/global_header.inc.php on line 7

Warning: main(../forum/common.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/templates/global_header.inc.php on line 7

Warning: main(): Failed opening '../forum/common.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/gami2674/public_html/templates/global_header.inc.php on line 7

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: session_pagestart() in /home/gami2674/public_html/templates/global_header.inc.php on line 12

Which seems to suggest that I still have the path wrong. My forums reside in a folder called "forum" so I've defnied the root value as

$phpbb_root_path = '../forum/';

Is this correct?

[geocator]

Where is this file in relation to the forum directory.

[Seelmeister]

The file in question is my index file, which is in the root directory of the site.

[geocator]

Then you should use

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$phpbb_root_path = './forum/';

Note only one dot.

[Seelmeister]

Okay changed to one dot, the error message is now:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/gami2674/public_html/index.php:2) in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/sessions.php on line 206

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/gami2674/public_html/index.php:2) in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/sessions.php on line 207

Warning: init_userprefs(language/lang_english/lang_main.): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 280

Warning: init_userprefs(language/lang_english/lang_main.): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 280

Warning: init_userprefs(): Failed opening 'language/lang_english/lang_main.' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 280

Warning: init_userprefs(./includes/lang_extend_mac.): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 294

Warning: init_userprefs(./includes/lang_extend_mac.): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 294

Warning: init_userprefs(): Failed opening './includes/lang_extend_mac.' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 294

Warning: message_die(language/lang_english/lang_main.): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 738

Warning: message_die(language/lang_english/lang_main.): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 738

Warning: message_die(): Failed opening 'language/lang_english/lang_main.' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/gami2674/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 738
phpBB :

Could not query database for theme info

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 3

[geocator]

Thats really wierd, I wonder why it is not picking up extension.in, but everything else includes correctly.

Perhaps a direct path fir extension.inc to get it to load.

[Seelmeister]

Nope, thats making no difference I'm afraid.