bbPress Support Forums » Topic: Authentication check on non-WP page

Ashfame on "Authentication check on non-WP page"

Ashfame — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:52:39 +0000

Why not load the bbPress environment and then call function to check is user is logged in? I have done the same in WP, so I think it might be possible in bbPress very easily too.

For WP

// load the WP environment so that I can call on the WP functions to make sure that user is logged in before accessing members area
require( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-load.php' ); 

if (!is_user_logged_in()) // You can't access the members area without login. Now can you?
{
auth_redirect();
}

For bbPress, it should be like

require('./bb-load.php');
// find the name of the function you will need

Michael3185 on "Authentication check on non-WP page"

Michael3185 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:05:40 +0000

I use this to stop people accessing the profile page unless logged-in;

<?php if ( !bb_is_user_logged_in() ) {
	show_error_page('log-in to access profiles');
	exit;
} ?>

Something along those line should work with a link to somewhere else, assuming they're in a bbPress page to begin with.

yutt on "Authentication check on non-WP page"

yutt — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:35:23 +0000

I'm trying to figure out how to verify a user is logged into BBpress before granting access on a non-bbpress page.

I'm currently trying to use: bb_auth() with limited success. It seems there are a lot of includes necessary. Is there a single file I can include that will load all of the mandatory functions for bb_auth?