I’m installing bbPress on a website that is mainly flashbased, and I need the users to be able to login via a form placed inside the frontpage.swf file. This is usually easy: all that’s necessary is a .php file that communicates with the flash, that basically looks like this:

if($_POST == $correct_username && $_POST == $correct_password){

echo(“loggedin=true”);

} else {

echo(“loggedin=false”);

}

Flash will then read the variable returned and work from there.

The issue is that I can’t figure out how to verify the data against the users table. I’ve studied bb-login.php and login.php, but I still can’t find the code that does the actual logging in – the code that checks the password against the encrypted one in the database, sets the cookie, etcetera.

Could someone point me in the right direction?

[@cine Member 16 years, 4 months ago]

Never mind, figured it out. The functions were really easy to use. I ended up doing it like this:

$user = bb_login( @$_POST, @$_POST);

if(isset($user->ID)) {

echo(“loggedin=true”);

} else {

echo(“loggedin=false”);

}