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Argos1958
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Use the PHPBB Login to allow access to Menu Option, other Menu option uses WP Categories - Crashes page

Post by Argos1958 »

My Setup:
Mainsite - custom built by me - not wp, and not phpbb - mysite.com
Subfolder - /blog/ (wordpres 4.9.4)
Subfolder - /forum/ (phpbb 3.0.14 - the last release of 3.0)

On the main site I want to do the following;
1) Member's only Menu - so if you log into the forum you are considered a member. I use this on other pages (test subfolder within mysite.com), and it works great.
For example,
  • I check to see if they are registered - if so, I show them the list of events we have coming up.
    I check to see if the user is an Admin and if so, I give them access to create an event (php / mysql / etc...)
2) Blog Content Menu - I use the Categories from the Blog by calling the wp-load.php). It drives a list of the categories for the user to select from. It works well.

3) I decided to create the MEMBERS ONLY (those registered in the Forum) menu. I thought it would be simple following the recommendations from teh PHPBB board.

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define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$php_root_pat = 'forum/';
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);
// Start session management
	$user->session_begin();
	$auth->acl($user->data);
	$user->setup();
	$user_name = $user->data['username'];

// allow access if the user is 'actually' registered - avoid the anonimous user.
if($user->data['is_registered']){
	   // echo 'logged in - you may do stuff here'
     $allowed = TRUE;
	}
	else{
	   //echo "not logged in!";
	   $allowed = FALSE;
	}  
This all works great as long as I don't put in the call to the wp-load.php. If I put it in, then the page does not display. It literally breaks at that poin.

If I add this code,

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<?php require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/ezine/wp-load.php');?>
The page breaks. I remove it, it works fine.

The same is true if I remove the PHPBB code, the page works great. I put it in, it breaks again.

I think - I'm not 100% certain, but I do think - that my root cause analysis is within the operation of the wp-load.php page; but I can't figure out what the conflict is - meaning: I'm not that good that I can figure this out.

I can simply let the pages with the code above reject the user and send them to a log in page; but I would prefer to make the menu MEMBERS ONLY show up when the members are logged in.

Does anyone know what the conflict is; and how I may resolve it (other than don't load wp-load.php)?
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