My home page is outside of the ee template system. I have previously successfully pulled in content from my ee weblog to diplay on my home page. However, now I would like to allow users to login to my blog from my home page. I have tried the following :

My home page content:
  <?php @include(“http://<home page>/engine/index.php?/home/login”); ?>

My ee ‘home/login’ template:
  {if logged_in}>
      You are logged in.
  {/if}

  {if logged_out}
      You are logged out.
  {/if}
 
It always shows that I am logged in even when I am logged out. The login status from my blog page is correct.

Is it possible to allow users to login from a non ee template? If so, am I going about this the right way? Please advise. Thanks!

Well,  to grab the page the include is using a URL fopen wrapper, which is not sending your cookie information to the system so you will always seem to be logged off according to it.

Try something like this, and change the system path variable if you have changed the name of your system directory:

<?php
$system_path = “./system/”;
$ext = ‘.php’;
$uri = ‘’;

$template_group = “home”;
$template = “login”;

if ( ! ereg(”/$”, $system_path)) $system_path .= ‘/’;
require $system_path.‘core/core.system’.$ext;
?>

Ohh.. thanks, Paul. I got this working for an about me page. Before I wasn’t logged in. It was the missing require core.system.php code.

I tried your recommendation, but now I get the following error message when I access my home page:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mark() in   /home/arob42/public_html/engine/ee_system/core/core.system.php on line 37

I used $system_path = “engine/ee_system/”  since my home page is one level up from my expression engine code.

Try using $system_path = “./engine/ee_system/”;

What is odd is that the mark function is actually in the core.system.php file right at the bottom.

I tried it but I still get the same error message :(

Hm, send me an email, please.  I think I want to see this one for myself, since the only thing I can think of is that the Benchmark class was removed from the bottom of core.system.php.