External Log In - Log a Customer in from another system

[designerman]

Hi I have a website that currently has 3 systems these are,

My own Log In / User Authentication System

A PHPBB Forum

A Zen Cart Shop

What I need To Do
Have A Customer Logged in from a form in my own log in system, so they do not need to log in twice and for ease of use.

Current Situation
Basically I have set it up so that when a user registers at my site, a user is created for them in the forum and a customer is created in zen cart. Now I need to log the user into Zen Cart when they log in using the form on my website. Getting PHPBB to work was no problem, I found a class and now when a user logs into the website they are also logged into PHPBB. And when they log out of the site, they are logged out of phpbb.

I have modified phpbb so that the log in link takes them to my log in form and the log out command is going to my log out system. I intend to do the same with Zen Cart but so far I have found it impossible, I cannot find any support for this any where so I am asking here.

Please someone give me a hand let me know which file it is that makes the user logged in as I cannot find anything, or what function is run, or even what session data is created so that I can duplicate this with my own log in system and then I will be very happy indeed.

Cheers

[designerman]

hey can anyone just help me to show me where in the zen cart application a log in is processed? thanks

[DrByte]

/includes/modules/pages/login/header_php.php
similar for logout

[designerman]

Thanks very much I am no able to process a customer log in hopefully, I will update my post above when I am done so that other people can find this thread useful. Thanks DrByte!

[designerman]

/includes/modules/pages/login/header_php.php
similar for logout

I've done a var_dump on the $_SESSION super global and it has opened some more questions,

Contents of the dump

array(18) {
["customers_host_address"]=> string(29) "XXXXXXXXX.XXX.XX"
["cartID"]=> string(0) ""
["cart"]=> &object(shoppingcart)(8)
{
["observers"]=> array(0) { }
["contents"]=> array(0) { }
["total"]=> int(0) ["weight"]=> int(0)
["content_type"]=> bool(false) ["free_shipping_item"]=> int(0) ["free_shipping_weight"]=> int(0)
["free_shipping_price"]=> int(0) }
["navigation"]=> &object(navigationhistory)(3) {
["observers"]=> array(0) { }
["path"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(4) {
["page"]=> string(5) "login"
["mode"]=> string(6) "NONSSL"
["get"]=> array(1) { ["action"]=> string(7) "process" }
["post"]=> array(0) { }
}
}
["snapshot"]=> array(0) { }
}
["check_valid"]=> string(4) "true"
["language"]=> string(7) "english"
["languages_id"]=> string(1) "1"
["languages_code"]=> string(2) "en"
["currency"]=> string(3) "GBP"
["updateExpirations"]=> bool(true)
["session_counter"]=> bool(true)
["customers_ip_address"]=> string(14) "XXX.XXX.XXX.XX"
["customer_id"]=> string(1) "3"
["customer_default_address_id"]=> string(1) "3" ["customers_authorization"]=> string(1) "0"
["customer_first_name"]=> string(3) "Tom"
["customer_country_id"]=> string(3) "222"
["customer_zone_id"]=> string(3) "190"
}

Question being do I need to set all these session values or just the ones starting customers_ in order for a login to be "correct" in terms of the application being ok with it?

Thanks very much for any help

[DrByte]

Question being do I need to set all these session values or just the ones starting customers_ in order for a login to be "correct" in terms of the application being ok with it?

Just refer to the code in the login header_php.php file for the specifics of what gets set during a successful login.

[designerman]

I set the session data and update the customer_info table with the same query but when I visit the shop it does not appear as logged in, what am I missing?