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1. Brett2000
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Hi,

   I'm not sure WHY I cannot find this information. Basically I need to run several external PHP scripts on the same domain as my Wordpress blog. What I want to do is authenticate that the person running the external PHP script is currently logged in to Wordpress (at any level, I don't care which role they have).

   I don't need anything fancy, or even very secure, because I know my users are not tech savvy enough to hack through it. All I need is something simple that will look to see - is this person currently logged in to my Wordpress blog right now. Here is what I had, it did work for a few days, now it does not work??
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   ini_set('display_errors', 1);
   require_once('../../../wp-config.php'); //Please make sure that the path is correct

   global $user_ID;

   $wp_user = new WP_User($user_ID);
   if (true == empty($wp_user) || $wp_user->ID < 1) {
   //In this case we are dealing with a visitor, not member
   wp_die("Would you please be so kind to log in?");
   }
   -------------------------

   Any ideas on why this used to work, and now it does not, or why it cannot work now? Any other ways I can do this? Every time I run it now I end up with $wp_user=NOT EMPTY, and ID=0, regardless of whether I am logged in to my Wordpress blog, or not? The only thing different, I changed themes, I did try changing back to the new theme, it did not fix the problem, so that might not be what caused this.

   Any help greatly appreciated, I don't know why this is so difficult, seems it would be a fairly straight-forward way to do it?

   Thanks,
   -Brett

2. mmaaxx
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Did you found any info on that?

   Thanks.

3. apljdi
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   I think I'd check for the presence of WP's login cookies.

4. lkoudal
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Hi

   I actually found the code on another blog, here it is:
   
require('wp-blog-header.php');
$user_login = 'admin';
$user = get_userdatabylogin($user_login);
$user_id = $user->ID;
wp_set_current_user($user_id, $user_login);
wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id);
do_action('wp_login', $user_login);

   remember to change the location of the wp-blog-header.php file as well as the user_login variable.

   the code was found here:

   http://www.lbsharp.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/12/10/wordpress-auto-login/

5. intellivision
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   lkoudal, that will set the user to your admin user, no matter who the user really is. Be careful.

   Maybe that's what you want to do.

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