Login form on external page

[bluetreehost]

Hello to all!

 

I am working to integrate the login form on my main page, external to the WHMCS templating system.

 

Adding a login form is easy - it is just HTML code that points to the whmcs code. However, I only want to display this code if the client has not already logged in. I think what I need to do is create some PHP code to check for the login cookie or session information.

 

However, everything I have tried to do has not worked properly. Does anyone know of information relating to this? Namely, I am looking for session or cookie information that I can retreive from an external page outside of whmcs.

[l0gic]

Edit:

Whoops, just saw that you said "external" from the templating system. Yeah, you'll have to manually check the session ID and stuff, I think. Sorry for my airheaded response.

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If you include the smarty stuff from the WHMCS folders, then you can do a simple smarty if statement using the $loggedin variable. Otherwise... hrm... well that's how I'd do it.

[skshost]

You could also use the cookies to auto populate the login fields.

[bluetreehost]

After sleeping overnight on this, I realized that I could do this by setting my own cookie with javascript. After setting this cookie on the WHMcs page (using the $loggedin variable) then I can read it on my other pages.

 

Thanks for the inspiration

[trine]

(off-topic) dave, I like your logo!

[bluetreehost]

Thank you!

 

To anyone who would find this interesting, what I am doing is putting an {if} switched loggedin parameter on the support area of the site. If it is logged in, I display a welcome message along with javascript code to set a simple cookie. That handles WHMcs branded areas of the site.

 

For non-WHMcs areas, I am then reading this cookie and displaying either a login form, or the same welcome message.

 

The tricky part is that I want to make sure that my custom cookie and the whmcs session mesh as far as whether they are logged in or not. I think it is possible because the session only lasts as long as you are logged in, unless you check that "keep me logged in" box. So I still have sonme debugging to go as far as making sure that all lines up correctly.

[Matt]

If your pages are PHP, you can include the file dbconnect.php and then just check if $_SESSION['loggedinstatus'] is set.

 

Matt