Trying to display SMF Welcome or Login on a Wordpress frontend

Started by RL, May 07, 2018, 05:36:41 AM

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RL

Hi guys

So this is the setup I have:
Wordpress site: hxxp:site.com [nonactive]
SMF forum: hxxp:site.com/forum [nonactive]

Just trying to get a "Hello <username>" to display on the Wordpress site's homepage with username being filled in from the SMF forum. Not looking to integrate logins or databases here, just want to display the text plainly.

Using SSI.php on a plain PHP file, eg: hxxp:site.com/test.php [nonactive] I am able to get the welcome message correctly (if I am logged in on the forum, it shows the username, if not shows the login link) but when I put the same code to the Wordpress site it always shows me as a guest. I have tried everything available to no avail. What am I doing wrong.

Appreciate the help.

Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen

What is the code you are using right now exactly? I know WP and SMF don't always like to play nice together, but I'd think what you are trying to do should be fairly easy to achieve.
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RL

Quote from: Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen on May 07, 2018, 06:12:47 AM
What is the code you are using right now exactly? I know WP and SMF don't always like to play nice together, but I'd think what you are trying to do should be fairly easy to achieve.

Thank you for the reply. Using the same code on both the Wordpress page and the PHP page test.php:

require("/var/www/html/site/forum/SSI.php");
ssi_welcome();

On the Wordpress page it only shows up as a guest regardless of being logged in on the SMF forum, on the test.php it shows up correctly.

Illori

are you running the test.php file from the same location as the wordpress install?

Kindred

you are going to have issues....   there are known collisions between SMF and wordpress variable names.


however, in SMF
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GigaWatt

Mhm, got it... it's a general setting for the script. It works regardless of what's the address of the forum, right?
"This is really a generic concept about human thinking - when faced with large tasks we're naturally inclined to try to break them down into a bunch of smaller tasks that together make up the whole."

"A 500 error loosely translates to the webserver saying, "WTF?"..."

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LopkSLap

Hi, im sorry for late raply but i have same issue.

My forum : site.com/forum [nofollow]
Wordpress : site.com/portal [nofollow]

I have a test file in wordpress directory and work succesful, but when i try to same code in my header file doesnt work. Actually it's work, but same result everytime even if you are logged in ( Hi Guest, please login or register ) Can anyone help me ?

Test file is :
<?php require("/home/lhrg/public_html/forum/SSI.php"); ?>
<div><?php ssi_welcome(); ?></div>

Illori

do you have subdomain independent cookies enabled or disabled? since it is not working switch that to the other and see if that fixes it.

LopkSLap

I dont use subdomain and Wordpress cache enable and smf cache enable

Illori

it does not matter if you do or not, try it anyway, it can solve the issue.

Arantor

Quote from: Illori on August 14, 2019, 01:05:58 PM
it does not matter if you do or not, try it anyway, it can solve the issue.

You will need to, without it SMF cookies will be bound to the forum folder exclusively and not available to the WP folder.

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