why login twice

[Vaisteen]

why do i have to login and then login again when i get to the forums? it just seems kinda pointless to me, but maybe rollie has some reason for it and yes i know theres an "automatically login" option but i spend alot of time on shared computers so i don't realistically have that option.

[Rollie]

Well, see, I'm lazy, and while it is possible to hack phpbb to do logins from outside the forums, I've had more pressing issues to attend to =)

[Ceto]

The fix involves setting the phpBB cookie to be site-wide so that all pages receive the cookie. Then, you add the following code to your site-wide initialization script:

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

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

$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX);
init_userprefs($userdata);

Optionally, add a function to determine if a user is logged in.

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function logged_in() {
    global $userdata;

    if($userdata['session_logged_in']) return true;

    return false;
}

But Rollie already knew that.

[Rollie]

Yeah, I dinked with that some a while back, couldn't get it working smoothly and just haven't spent anymore time messing with it.

[Vaisteen]

i hate to be picky but could yall say that in normal english

[Ceto]

i hate to be picky but could yall say that in normal english

"It can be done, it's just a matter of finding the time to do it."

[Vaisteen]

ahh thank you as i am more computer litterate than most i don't quite get all the code stuff

[Hybuir]

i hate to be picky but could yall say that in normal english

We could fix it, but the pizza's here...

[Vaisteen]

mmm pizza good

[Sianni]

We could fix it, but the pizza's here...

mmmmm... now I'm hungry.