External Authentication

[intervelopment]

Hey All,

 

Got a bit of a tricky question.

 

I have a site using a CMS and i want to integrate a osc shop into it, but continue to use the CMS to authenticate people for both systems.

 

Has anybody ever touched on this before? i would like to get some tips on how it could be done.

 

from what i can see in the login.php ... i would need to register the sessions associated with the shop as follows:

 

tep_session_register('customer_id');

tep_session_register('customer_default_address_id');

tep_session_register('customer_first_name');

tep_session_register('customer_country_id');

tep_session_register('customer_zone_id');

 

I have never really used external authentication so im not sure if im right.

 

But if someone could point me in the right direction, that would be grand

 

Cheers

[Guest]

You would have to have a common database for authenitcation - ideally osc - or some way of keeping then synchronised and linked with sufficient data- then, as you say, registering session details though this would need to include a session id for oscommerce

[intervelopment]

Do you have any advice on if i was to do it the other way around.

 

Authenticate to the CMS and you are automatically authenticated to the shop ?