Using a different database for Auth
Development and Programming
I have a client that has an existing database that they use for contact / user management, which I would like to use in place or in conjunction with EE tables in MySQL to validate member login.
Can someone provide insight to any modules that may already exist that does what I need
AND/OR
If I need to build this from scratch can someone point me in the right direction for attaching to a session hook and validating a login with my own module? I imagine there has to be some plugin out there doing this that I can reference for my own module.
Hi Clay,
These kinds of cross-login/authentication processes are generally custom built, however there are a few out there that might give you some insight into how to develop your own.
vBee does this for ExpressionEngine/vBulletin integration.
Also, have a look through the extension hooks available to developers.
I’m going to move this over into Development and Programming to see if the talented developer community can offer some tips.
Cheers,
I’ve come a long way since my original posting. I’ve successfully tied in to the login hook to validate if the user exists in my FileMaker database, now I just need to auto-create an account for the user in EE.
It doesnt seem like that logic would exist through a hook since a hook is only called on a user action.. in Kohana and Zend I would just call the module / class methods directly since they’re already included globally, but that doesnt seem to be the case here, and I dont want to include the physical files with an absolute server path if there’s a better way to call them.