Hi All,

I’m wondering if someone can point me in the right direction, note I’m not very good with php/code.

I’m trying to implement a live chat shoutbox with bbpress using Ajax Chat. My goal is to get users logged in to bbpress, automatically log in with their BBpress credentials into the Chat.

In the Ajax chat wiki, it seems simple enough as they state:

If you want to reuse an existing session cookie set from another application just adjust the following setting in lib/config.php:

// Session handling:

$config = ‘PHPSESSID’;

Change PHPSESSID to the name of the session cookie you want to use.

I guess my question is, what is BBpress’s PHPSESSID and how can I make this work?

Thanks in advance!

Cheers

Wiki over at : http://ajax-chat.wiki.sourceforge.net/Reuse+existing+session+cookie

[@swaymedia Member 15 years, 7 months ago]

Would love to know this also.

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

I don’t believe bbPress uses sessions at all.

[@rareexample Member 15 years, 7 months ago]

Hmm, any recommendation for a live shoutbox or live chat implementation?

[@finalwebsites Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

right no session at all

@rareexample, just use the cookies created by bbpress (using firefox it’s easy to discover the cookies)

[@pikatore Member 15 years, 5 months ago]

@finalwebsites, how do you use firefox to discover the cookies?

[@pikatore Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

correction: trying to view cookies. bbpress doesn’t even use cookies.

[@ipstenu Moderator 15 years, 4 months ago]

bbPress does use cookies. Go to Tools -> Options -> Privacy and click on ‘Remove individual cookies’

In there, search for your URL.

[@pikatore Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

??? there is no options>privacy window. just tools, nothing else.

[@pikatore Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

bump, for the love of god!!!

[@ipstenu Moderator 15 years, 4 months ago]

pikatore, please relax. This is a VOLUNTEER forum, and you have to be patient or you’ll piss everyone off and no one will help you. Okay?

It sounds like, since your TOOLS menu doesn’t have options, you’re on a Macintosh, which means you need to go to Firefox -> Preferences -> Privacy.

Finding out where cookies are stored in your browser is pretty standard stuff. You could also google it

[@pikatore Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

ok, cookie found.

PHPSESSID

and i have a value for it.

is it a simple matter of subbing that value into the line of code in the first post?

what will that do? does it make the chat function use your login name?

[@pikatore Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

array();

I want that to be pointed to a particular value in a different database. how would i do that?