Comments on: external db authentication plugin now works with WordPress 2.7

By: carlgt1

carlgt1 — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:31:10 +0000

Hi, this is a great plug-in! I added a small modification (about 10 lines total) that will set an optional cookie that can be used in other parts of your website. For example, I work on “BOINC” projects (distributed computing projects such as SETI@home, climateprediction.net etc). We have pretty mundane websites full of scientific stuff, but (well at least mine i.e. Quake-Catcher Network) has just moved to WordPress for our main site.

So we authenticate via this wonderful plug-in to our usual user tables – but everybody was sick of having to login to our many science pages (which will probably never be put “under” WordPress). So by setting this extra cookie we can easily grab their info for an “auto-login” if they click on some of the non-WordPress of the site. I hope this makes sense!

I will be happy to share it — it’s based on the 3.15 version and is running fine on our WP 3.2.1 sites. I have put it up on our BOINC Wiki here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/WordPressInt

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:59:08 +0000

Can you please update this to WP 3.2, that would be amazing.

By: Paul Roberts

Paul Roberts — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 08:51:56 +0000

Will this be updated to WP 3.1 ?

By: Linto

Linto — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:41:46 +0000

Hi
I have integrated the External DB authentication(latest version) to with a wordpress site(version2.9.2).And it works while connecting to MYSQL DB and not works with MSSQL DB.While i try to login it gives a blank page.I have installed PEAR MDB2 package and also given the path of MDB2.php (as /usr/share/pear/MDB2.php).Can any body say the reason

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:32:41 +0000

I thought I had everything setup and working, although nobody else manages to login via wordpress. It worked for myself but that’s it, not sure if the config has messed up or something but I’ve tried everything I can think of. (remove plugin, re-type details) etc

Any help please

By: Rama Rao

Rama Rao — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:48:35 +0000

Hi Can somebody help to get this working with WordPress 3 and Joomla 1.5?

I tries but with no success.

By: Paragon

Paragon — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:12:47 +0000

Same here…blank login page.

By: adiallo

adiallo — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:15:43 +0000

Hi thanks for this pluging
I install and specify everything but now i can’t login no more. The login page give a empty page. I don’t know if someone know where is the problem? am using worlpress 2.8.6 and the plugin version is 3.1

Thanks
adiallo

By: Steffen Zieger

Steffen Zieger — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:47:00 +0000

It seems as there is a bug in the authentication, as users are still getting authenticated, if they’ve clicked on “Remember Me”.
This will save the login credentials in a cookie.

But it seems, as ext_db_auth_check_login() isn’t used, if wp_validate_auth_cookie() is returning a user.

Any idea for getting this fixed?

Thanks in advance.

Steffen

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:24:25 +0000

I figured it out. I had db fieldnames in my mssql db with uppercase letters in them(i never got over java naming conventions.) MDB2 would fetch the assoc’s as all lowercase fieldnames(I assume it was mdb2 doing this). All this plugin needs to authenticate is a rowcount, which it was getting. However, since I was configured to look for some uppercase fields, the lookup would fail and all my fields populated blank. Setting field names to all lowercase in the config cleared it right up (still found in mssql which is case insensitive, and now found in the fetched row).