ModX and phpBB

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dontshooot Reply #1, 16 years, 6 months ago
Hi, I’m trying to use phpBB authorization for ModX. In another words - when user login on forum (phpBB), he automatically login on web-site (ModX).
I tried this code like snippet:
```
<?php
// http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/phpbb3-sessions-integration/
define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = (defined('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH')) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : '../forum.parnasmoto.ru/';
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.php');

// Start session management
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
$user->setup();
?>
```
Result is - "The config. file could not be found. Click here to install phpBB"

Of course phpBB is installed.

Sorry for my terrible English.
From Russia with love
- MODX Staff
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opengeek Reply #2, 16 years, 6 months ago

You can’t integrate sessions between MODx and another application that does it’s own session management. They are incompatible. You will have to create a bridge that synchronizes user accounts and passwords (or just user accounts if you create a custom modUser derivative class for MODx Revolution, but that’s a much more advanced topic and requires that PHPBB have some sort of external authentication API or web service).
Jason Coward
Chief Architect @ MODX
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