I am building a site around the SMF Forum System and I hope to be able to create a login prompt on the site home page that logs into the forum and displays the index.php page. What PHP code would I need to add to the home page do this?
By home page I mean the home page of my website; not the home page of the forum system (index.php).
Right after the opening PHP tag, add this:
include_once('/path/to/smf/SSI.php');
Replace "/path/to/smf" with the actual path to your SMF installation.
Then, wherever you want the login box to appear:
ssi_login();
Thanks a lot for that, Oldiesmann. :)
So if I wanted to remove or override another PHP scripted program's login to accept the SMF login I would do the same thing at that page's index/login screen?
Yes, you can do that, but for a better integration, perhaps you should create a Bridge script instead.
You can check out the SMF API: http://www.simplemachines.org/download/?tools
A somewhat related question: I have integrated my forum login on my non-forum homepage using SSI. However, the login section that appears is somewhat ugly. I would prefer to use the better-looking login/register interface and buttons that's shown inside the forum itself. Is there an SSI reference I can use to include that better-looking interface instead, or are there alterations that I can make to the SSI code that would let me "re-create" that look?
Work-in-progress page is here: http://76.12.227.132/testradical.php (http://76.12.227.132/testradical.php).
You can see that I'm trying to create a login section on the top left. However, I'd like it to look like the forum login/registration interface shown here in the top left: http://76.12.227.132/forums/ (http://76.12.227.132/forums/)