Zen Bridge

[yellow1912]

https://svn.rubikintegration.com/zen...ds/zen_bridge/

This will provide the ability to login/logoff Zen from another web-application that is located on the SAME server.

It should work on Zen 1.3.8 only, to make it work for older version you have to comment out the securityToken checking.

This script was written by me (well, actually I took most parts from Zen core codes), use it as your own risk.

[yellow1912]

Geeze, I meant Zen, can someone correct the title for me, pretty please ^_^?
(I was working on Zend and somehow that confused me *_*)
Cheers.

[yellow1912]

Added create_account, untested.
Use at your own risk. All bugs should be reported here.

[yellow1912]

Basic instruction:
1. Put the file in your ZC root folder (wherever your store is, say if you have your store in www.yourstore.com/store then you put the file in that "store" folder)

2. Now, say you want to bridge ZC with your joomla login:
I dont use Joomla, so I dont know where joomla put their login boxes html code and exactly how it processes that info (you go figure it out ^_^), but it has to do that some where.

What you have to do is: you have to include this bridge file at the time Joomla processes the login info, and then just use the sample code in the file, pass the login info into the function and you are done.

[athena]

any security concerns with this? I'm going to work on installing this at my test sight for 138a and phpbb3. Any feedback on someone using this appreciated.

[yellow1912]

I'd leave the comment regarding security concerns for the devs to answer as they know it better.
But 1 thing I recommend: dont include this file when you do not need it (i.e: dont include it on every page), this file loads ZC application_top.php which in turn loads many other necessary files and database constants...

Just include it when you process the login/logoff/register .

Originally Posted by athena

any security concerns with this? I'm going to work on installing this at my test sight for 138a and phpbb3. Any feedback on someone using this appreciated.

[athena]

Originally Posted by yellow1912

...you have to include this bridge file at the time Joomla processes the login info, and then just use the sample code in the file, pass the login info into the function and you are done.

So for phpbb3 where would this be? My code skills are limited.

[yellow1912]

lol, I never used phpbb3 before, how would I know? ^_^

Originally Posted by athena

So for phpbb3 where would this be? My code skills are limited.

[athena]

what do you use it for?

[digital abyss]

Originally Posted by yellow1912

Basic instruction:
1. Put the file in your ZC root folder (wherever your store is, say if you have your store in www.yourstore.com/store then you put the file in that "store" folder)

2. Now, say you want to bridge ZC with your joomla login:
I dont use Joomla, so I dont know where joomla put their login boxes html code and exactly how it processes that info (you go figure it out ^_^), but it has to do that some where.

What you have to do is: you have to include this bridge file at the time Joomla processes the login info, and then just use the sample code in the file, pass the login info into the function and you are done.

Is there any way this could be used in a basic html page with two text inputs
like email, password ?
or a simple php page with those two inputs ?
I would like to login external to zencart from a simple web page as a front end:

<?php
include 'zen_bridge.php';
?>
<table width="300" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
<tr>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="index.php?main_page=login">
<td>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><strong>Member Login </strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="78">Username</td>
<td width="6">:</td>
<td width="294"><input name="myusername" type="text" id="myusername"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Password</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input name="mypassword" type="text" id="mypassword"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Login"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</form>
</tr>
</table>
<?php
$zen_bridge = new zen_bridge();
$zen_bridge->login();
?>

Am I using it all wrong?