Dual Login

[Kuya]

I have a website with a back office login (separate from zen cart).

I would like to have the customer automatically logged on & off to my store when they log on & off in the back office AND vice versa.

This is what I have so far:

1) I have modified the "create new account" file to require a company ID number and record that to the DB...and moved "email address" to Other Contact Details section.
2) I have modified the admin customer edit form by adding the company ID,
3) I have modified the customer's "Account Edit" form by adding the company ID.
4) I have modified the login form to request the company ID instead of email address. By renaming the input field and label. This is consistent with my member's current log on credentials to the existing back office.

Numbers 1-3 all function as expected.

To complete #4, I need to change the actual log on from using "email address" & password to use "company ID" and password.

My problem here is that I can't find the php file that actually processes the log on.

I am a programmer so I'm pretty sure I can handle the change if I could just find the correct file.

Thanks so much for your help on this.

Kind Regards,
John

[lat9]

John, you could use the Encrypted Master Password plugin as a starting point. That plugin allows an authorized admin user to use their Zen Cart admin password to sign into any customer's account.

[DrByte]

To complete #4, I need to change the actual log on from using "email address" & password to use "company ID" and password.

My problem here is that I can't find the php file that actually processes the log on.

See /includes/modules/pages/login/header_php.php
and since you're hacking apart the default login handling process to not use email address you'll need to update the updateNotLoggedInCustomerPassword() function in zcPassword class to key on something other then email address.
There may be other places too.

[Kuya]

Thank you DrByte for your reply. That was exactly what I was looking for.

I have it working, (using "Company/Customer ID" instead of "Email Address") and yes it did take several modifications. The actual login template had to be modified as well as create new account template, customer account edit template, admin create customer template, admin (customer) account edit template, header_php.php, language files and more. But, it keeps everything in line with what my customers are used to.

and since you're hacking apart the default login handling process to not use email address ...

I don't mean to offend or degrade the work that has been done to create and continuously update the software. I think the words "hacking apart" might be a bit strong.

Every customer that uses the software has unique requirements, otherwise why are there so many plugins created to add additional functionality.

As the saying goes... "Necessity is the mother of invention." When someone needs functionality the original software doesn't provide, they create it.

I have hundreds of customers who are already accustomed to a particular logon process. Why disrupt them by changing it when I can change the process on ZC to accommodate them?

The "dual" logon is yet to be completed. I will try to post my steps for accomplishing this when all is complete and working.

Kind Regards,
John

[DrByte]

I don't mean to offend or degrade the work that has been done to create and continuously update the software. I think the words "hacking apart" might be a bit strong.

Apologies. Evidently your skills are stronger than those of most others who have asked about this sort of thing ... and *they* were indeed just hacking away.
I occasionally use the word to help flesh out the person's perspective.


Your next challenge will probably be what to do about sessions and whether to seamlessly link people already-logged-in to the other system to be instantly given an authorized session in this system without ever facing a login prompt. And then also syncing data between the systems, such as personal address/profile changes.