I run a community site that uses a phpBB2 forum, and I was wondering how to fetch informations from the forum into other pages (without messing with phpBB2 code, which is something I don't want to even hear about)
\nHere are some tips that may help you make your existing pages and phpBB2 communicate.
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phpBB Fetch All<\/a> : This project is a collection of functions you can easily use on any pages. Simple installation (5 or 6 pages in a forum sub-directory) and you have ready-to-use functions about posts (last posts, last topics, ongoing thread…), users (top posters, info about a random user…), polls and a lot of things. The doc pages<\/a> are clear and list every function available.<\/p>\n This package contains almost everything I needed… Almost only, since there is no function to dectect informations from a login cookie, if any. It retrieves infos from the forum, but not from a user currently viewing a page.<\/p>\n Hopefully, reading the login cookie is not difficult, I was real glad after a short googlage to realize how easy it was :) The following quick example just displays if the user has an ongoing session or cookie in your forums, you'll need to edit only line 5.<\/p>\n The informations fetched can be any $userdata[thing<\/strong>]<\/em> where thing<\/em> is a field from phpbb2_users <\/em>table : user_id, username, user_regdate, user_password, user_email, etc …<\/p>\n You can now use this informations into your existing site, for example auto-fill the comments form fields with username, user_url and user_email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tips to fetch informations from a phpBB2 forum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2,10,70,245],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-code","tag-php","tag-phpbb2","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Reading phpBB2's cookie<\/h2>\n
<?php\r\n\/\/ phpBB includes\r\ndefine('IN_PHPBB', true);\r\n\/\/ next one is the physical path to your forums root : CUSTOMIZE\r\n$phpbb_root_path = '\/home\/user\/you\/forums\/';\r\ninclude($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc');\r\ninclude($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);\r\n\/\/ Start session\r\n$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX);\r\ninit_userprefs($userdata);\r\n\/\/ From now on, we have user infos\r\nif ($userdata['session_logged_in']) {\r\n echo "You are : ".$userdata['username'] ." (".$userdata['user_email'].")<br>\\n";\r\n echo "Userid : ".$userdata['user_id']."<br>\\n";\r\n} else {\r\n echo "Not logged !";\r\n}\r\n?><\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n