Vanilla 2 Integration

@smcilreavy - download Vanilla 2.0.16 off Github https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/downloads - that definitely works with ProxyConnect as per sottwell’s tutorial. One minor addition I made is to destroy the ’Vanilla ProxyConnect’ cookie as well as the Vanilla one. I think it now does the handshake without the confirm screen by default. You’ll also want to add this to your config.php file:



to stop users attempting to update their Vanilla profile/password - I assume this messes with the signon.

I also chose to remove the sign out option from the Vanilla theme I am using - as I want to make sure the cookie is destroyed when a user logs out of MODX.

I’ve tried 2.0.17.8 and unstable 2.0.17.9 - neither appear to work - I might try upgrading from my working 2.0.16 but I think I can live without nested categories (I can’t see much else that I or my client need).

It’s frustrating, because the software is very nicely put together when it works. It’s just poorly documented, point releases break it and the community support is very patchy (as comparatively few people opt for the download version).

Hi Guys,

Thought you might be interested to see this.

It seems like other vanilla users are having probs with the latest proxy connect as well.

Might be best to let them sort it out first

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/15492/manual-integration-on-2.0.17.-

To re-iterate - it works like a charm for Vanilla 2.0.16

If you can live without nested categories (the biggest change in 2.0.17) then dig out the old version from Git (address above) and use sottwell’s instructions.

Can anyone post a zip file of the old proxy connect plugin at all? The new version is only for Vanilla 2.0.17.9+ - and seems to have issues. I’m tried installing Vanilla 2.0.16 - but the proxyconnect won’t install as they’ve updated the files a week a so ago. I’m hoping that if I can get my hands on a copy of the old proxyconnect plugin, I should be able to get i working with 2.0.16.

Thanks!

I have proxyconnect 1.8, which I believe is the version I used. I also have 1.6 if it doesn’t want to work.

Thanks for that! Had some dramas with the cookies not deleting (from when I had it setup wrong), but once I got that sorted it appears to be working now.

Vanilla 2.0.18.4 and Vanilla Proxyconnect 1.9.9. Work fine.
I am used embeded plugin for Vanilla.
I can't solve only this:
Quote from: Hat-rack at Feb 19, 2011, 04:52 PM

First Issue:
Sometimes when I login to modx, then go over to vanilla, I'm not signed in until I click on the "sign in" button in vanilla, it then picks up the cookie and all is ok. I'm not sure why it does this sometimes and other times logs directly in without having to click on "sign in" in vanilla.

You might do better with the newer jsconnect plugin http://vanillaforums.org/addon/jsconnect-plugin.

There is also an additional plugin to force an automatic login without having to select a provider (i.e. some other application like MODx where the user is already logged in) http://vanillaforums.org/addon/jsconnectautosignin-plugin.


http://sottwell.com/article-vanilla/ [ed. note: sottwell last edited this post 11 years, 4 months ago.]

Hi can someone step me thru this?

There seems to be a lot of things breezed over in the various instructions which for a non techie is always confusing.

1: in the Vanilla Proxy Connect configuration there's a field called Authenticate URL The behind-the-scenes URL that shares identity information with Vanilla

Do I have to create this? And if so, what do I need to put in it? And does it need to be called anything specific in order to work with the other snippets?

Thanks

That will be your MODx resource that contains the snippet to get the user's information. Give it any alias you like, that is what you'll specify in the field you mention. This article gives very explicit instructions.
[update] No longer supporting the older deprecated proxyconnect method.
http://sottwell.com/article-vanilla/ [ed. note: sottwell last edited this post 11 years, 4 months ago.]