Charlene @ 1:03 pm
I did some fairly major overhauling with this last version and added in extra settings/checks that should make it solid until a suitably late version of wordpress comes out and breaks it again. Changes from 2.0 to 3.0 include:
- Support for PostgreSQL and MSSQL (with the installation of MDB2 PEAR packages and relevant database driver)
- Configuration options for database port
- Option to custom-enter what hash function you use for external database passwords in the settings section
- Error-checking that won’t make the plugin break when you have no extended data fields
- Fixed the problem of passwords not synching if there was a password change on the external database end but user, who had logged in before to Wordpress, logged in with previous password on Wordpress
- Somewhat uninformative redirect to login page when a valid login has the wrong password.
Generally friendliness, ponies, and rainbows.
If any bugs surface, I’ll update, but otherwise expect another long hiatus. As usual, download on wordpress.
Tags: ext_db_auth
Charlene @ 12:46 am
Just that. It works from what I can tell with Wordpress 2.5 and higher; the code’s been tightened up, besides. Download it at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-database-authentication/
Tags: ext_db_auth
Charlene @ 11:45 am
Title mostly says it all. I needed to make a plugin for Bonnie’s site to use a decent blog (Moodle’s blog system just isn’t cutting it) plus using data from already-registered users. You essentially set up a limited access account to your external db and enter the details into this plugin’s options. There’s also an option to give a custom error message in case of invalid login/pw combinations - in our case it will inform the user that they need to create an account first at the moodle site then come back to login.
We’re planning to combine this with a default user role of author/editor-ish (author with category management permissions, preferably) so that we get the same general functionality of Moodle’s blogs plus comments, better management, RSS, etc. This is my first plugin and I tried to follow general layout conventions of wordpress - hope it works for others, too.
It’s hosted on Wordpress under External Database Authentication. About the only update I may think of doing is somehow disabling users from changing passwords and user info in wordpress, as it will be overwritten by the moodle data anyway…
Tags: DIY, ext_db_auth
