CEdoot - Reincarnation of CE-im

[ash]

Regarding CE database access, try checking out the vbulletin.org website on how to have external access to the database. At the moment, all I know is that login details are encrypted of md5 hashes, etc.

[mayurpathak]

This has gone in the oblivion again. Guys when are we starting actual work? I'm no technical guy... tell me how can I help?

Should I consider learning C++ Tell me!

[ash]

Yes, please do learn it. Its fun!

I wanted to suggest that we can try to get another vBulletin system and experiment with it, so that the CE forums can be run uninterrupted. Unfortunately, vB is not free

Here's a good place to check out the functions used in vB login:
vBulletin 3.7 Code Documentation

The key is understanding the Data Managers:
vBulletin Manual

The actual codes to use are available, but you need to be a "licenced" user of vBulletin (which Biggie is). For now we'll try to understand the abstract of the operation. If we get stuck, maybe Biggie can get some sample code to use

[The_Big_K]

We *do* have a test vBulletin setup and things can be tried there. What's better is - there's a plugin that allows users to send messages in real time - just like we do through Gtalk or Yahoo Messenger.

We may just customize it or build our system on the top of it.

[ash]

Ah, you mean the integrated Gtalk in GMail? I think that'll take up a lot of server resources

What we can borrow is how the plugin authenticate users. Once that is figured out, it'll make life much easier

[mayurpathak]

Originally Posted by The_Big_K

We *do* have a test vBulletin setup and things can be tried there. What's better is - there's a plugin that allows users to send messages in real time - just like we do through Gtalk or Yahoo Messenger.

We may just customize it or build our system on the top of it.

This is great. But is it integrated or it works like a gtalk client? If we can customize it and launch a beta version, this would be super!

[ash]

Alright, for you coding junkies, here's some thing to work on. This is a sample of the authentication of vB users:

$query = "
   SELECT
       userid, password, salt
   FROM
       [table-prefix]user
   WHERE
       username = '" . addslashes($_POST['username']) . "' 
   LIMIT 1;";
   // execute the query and retrieve the results. 
   // ...
   // assume result stored in $data[]
 if (md5( $_POST['password'] . $salt ) == $data['password']) {
   // authentication successful, set cookies as
   setcookies("bbuserid", $data['userid']);
   setcookies("bbpassword", md5($data['password'] . "YOURLICENSENUMBERHERE"));
 } else {
   // authentication failed
   // redirect to error page
}

Taken from MediaWiki's integration method

Yep, can't wait to dissect the plugin Biggie's talkin about!