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Posted by Damian Parker 13 May 2004 00:22 GMT-0000 posts: 2881 ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Hi There

Tiki can use LDAP authentication or http authenticaion, maybe you can combine that with your application.

Without knowing your custom apps authentication I cant really say the best way.

Good luck

Damian

Posted by DDD 13 May 2004 04:12 GMT-0000 posts: 9 ☆ ☆ ☆

I'm trying to integrate tikiwiki with a very simple addressbook script with no LDAP capabilities - http://www.corvalis.net/address and right after posting the initial message I saw your reply in the Change post dated April 29:

Damian wrote: "... Incedentally I recall a IRC conversation relating to similar similar but using a iframe on a wiki page and called require_once('tiki-setup.php'); to get the $user available in that script."

If you can recall any details of how to make $user available in another script it will help a lot. I've tried several require_once options but couldn't get it to work...

Thanks for your help!

Regards
DDD

Posted by Russ Wilde 13 May 2004 10:10 GMT-0000 posts: 63 ☆ ☆ ☆

I think using

require_once(relative/path/to/tiki-setup.php);

should do the trick.

Then, assuming the user is logged on to tiki, $user will contain their username, otherwise it'll be "";

Then you could use an HTML page to include your address book application inside the Tiki application layout using an IFRAME SRC="YourApplication",

You could also tweak the login for your address book to either not check for login if Tiki's $user is supplied
OR
require that they confirm thier password before they can veiw the address book, which you should be able to verify against tiki's...
although the method alludes me at this precise moment.

Also, you can add a clause like

if (!$user) {
  header("Location: tiki-error.php?error=You must be logged in to use the address book");
};

Assuming headers have not already been sent, of course. Or something similar to throw out errors through tiki as well.

Posted by DDD 13 May 2004 14:37 GMT-0000 posts: 9 ☆ ☆ ☆

Thanks RussWilde for these tips, but I've tried it and I keep getting the "TikiWiki is not properly set up:" page when using require_once('path to/tiki-setup.php'). It seems the tiki-setup.php script is looking to see whether it's installed correctly in the folder where my address book is, which obviously isn't true.

My folder setup:
/tikiinstallfolder
/tikiinstallfolder/tiki-setup.php
.
.
.
/tikiinstallfolder/addressbook
/tikiinstallfolder/addressbook/addressloginscript.php
.
.
I'm using " require_once('../tiki-setup.php');" in the addressloginscript.php and it then complains that tikiwiki isn't installed in /tikiinstallfolder/addressbook

I wish I knew PHP and MySQL better 😉

Thanks
H

Posted by Russ Wilde 13 May 2004 20:26 GMT-0000 posts: 63 ☆ ☆ ☆

Sorry, should've realised that would happen.

Have you considered just dropping the files in the tiki root folder?
I would be a cheap quick fix..

Otherwise you'd have to look into the TikiIntegrator ghasp!

Otherwise it might require some crazy-go-nuts idea which I could prolly turn out over a couple of days...