Using phpBB sessions with 3.2 (external pages to board) ?

[Lascard]

Hi,

Does this still work with version 3.2 ? the same way or similar code ??

https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... tegration/

I haven't seen any update to this tutorial and since i need to convert a 3.0.x phpBB board to 3.2 i want to ascertain i can still use sessions on the same site on pages outside the board

Many thanks for your help

[Kailey]

After a quick look, it may, but since it was wrote for 3.0 some principles may be different. I'd be interested in hearing the outcome if you decide to try it.

[Lascard]

Thanks Kailey for your feedback.

Since converting the site with the 3.0.x board to 3.2 is no small endeavor, i would need to test on a new forum/ dummy site to see how it goes first.

Unless someone else is already using these phpbb sessions with the 3.2 version successfully ?
Tkx

[GanstaZ]

It doesn't differ that much, depends on what you want to achieve and how. It worked for me before i switched to extension & front controller development. Don't remember everything in that topic, but it should work til we reach 3.3 or higher.

[Lascard]

Thanks for your feedback.
Right now these phpBB sessions are used on site pages outside the phpBB board so the content is only seen to registered users and/or belonging to one specific group.
I'd like to extend this across the whole site (without using a bridge to another CMS) by just adding the phpBB sessions first in the header of these external pages.

[GanstaZ]

If forum path is correct in all those files where you want to use session, then there will be no problems.

[Lascard]

I'd be interested in hearing the outcome if you decide to try it.

Following GanstaZ feedback, I run a simple test (see below) with a phpbb3.2.2 board version and apparently it works OK

Code (coded with my feet, pls. upgrade !) to get user name, group name and print the relevant content if user belongs to the right group

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<?php 
define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = './forum/';
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);
$user->session_begin();

//$auth->acl($user->data);
//$user->setup();

		
if ($user->data['user_id'] != ANONYMOUS)   
{  
	$usera = ucfirst($user->data['username_clean']);	
	$groupnumber= $user->data['group_id'];
	
//$db->sql_query($sql);

$sql = 'SELECT group_name
			FROM ' . GROUPS_TABLE . '
			WHERE group_id = ' . $groupnumber;
			
		$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
		$row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);
		$groupname=$row['group_name'];	
		$db->sql_freeresult($result);
		
		
	
	echo ('<h4>Hello  '.$usera.'&nbsp;!</h4><p>You are a member of this group : "'.$groupname.'"</p> ');
		
		
		if ($groupnumber == "number i.e. group_id of your board premium group")
		{echo '<p><h2>Hello premium group member !</h2></p>'; 
		}
		else
		{echo 'You are not allowed to see this page premium content'; 
		}			
}		
else 
{echo '<h4>Please <a href="'.$phpbb_root_path.'ucp.php?mode=login">login</a></h4>'; 
}

?>

[WackOo]

At first, sorry for bumping an old thread, but it's exactly about what I'm experiencing.

I'm trying to convert my front-end custom made website and phpbb forum from 3.0.13-PL1 to 3.2.8
So far so good, updating phpBB wasn't an issue, the problem I'm running into are cross use of sessions.

When I'm logged in into the updated forum, the sessions work and stay active.
As soon as I go to my updated front-end and refresh the page, the session breaks even for the forum ( 3.2.8 ).

I've tried several stuff, with and without for example

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$user->setup()

and/or

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$user->update_session_infos()

but haven't had any luck.
Also tried different ROOT_PATH's without success.

The first/original part of php code below works like a charm on the custom made php page with phpBB 3.0.13-PL1 for the user sessions.

1. Original, working on the old version of the website:

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<?php
define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = (defined('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH')) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : './forums/';
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
@include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);
@include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/bbcode.' . $phpEx);
@include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_display.' . $phpEx);

// Start session management
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
$user->setup();

2. Another try with full root_path:

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<?php
define('IN_PHPBB', true);
define('ROOT_PATH', "/var/www/vhosts/domainname.extension/httpdocs/forums");

if (!defined('IN_PHPBB') || !defined('ROOT_PATH')) {
	exit();
}

$phpEx = "php";
$phpbb_root_path = (defined('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH')) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : ROOT_PATH . '/';
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);

$request->enable_super_globals();

// Start session management
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
$user->setup();
$user->update_session_infos();

Does anyone have any suggestions or experiences on this matter?