Title: Cakephp   wordpress bbPress auto login
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Cakephp wordpress bbPress auto login

 *  [Codd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ranjangoyal/)
 * (@ranjangoyal)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cakephp-wordpressbbpress-auto-login/)
 * Hi All,
 * When users register on my main site, it uses the WordPress database. The accounts
   share the same username and password.
 * Now when users login to my main site, I want the user to login into WordPress
   automatically. How can I do this?
 * Auto Login between wordpress and bbpress is working.
 * To achieve this I set a cookie to match that of wordpress cookie(In case we use
   wordpress login form to login) in the following manner. I call this script after
   logging into main site.
 *     ```
       $cookiehash = md5($blog_directory_web_path);
   
       $siteCookiePath = '/blog/forum/';// WordPress is working with bbpress
   
       define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', false);
   
       $expiration = 0;
       if($remember){
   
       $expiration = $expire = time() + 1209600;
   
       }else{
   
       $expiration = time() + 172800;
       $expire = 0;
       }
   
       $data = $username . '|' . $expiration;
   
       $key = hash_hmac('md5', $data, 'phrase 1');
       $hash = hash_hmac('md5', $data, $key);
       $cookie = $username . '|' . $expiration . '|' . $hash;
   
       setcookie('wordpress_'.$cookiehash, $cookie, $expire, $siteCookiePath, COOKIE_DOMAIN);
   
       setcookie('wordpress_'.$cookiehash, $cookie, $expire, '/', COOKIE_DOMAIN);
       ```
   
 * Cookie is set but auto login is not working.
 * Am I paasing correct values to cookie?
    Is there anything else I need to do?
 * **Following links are useless.**
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/81942](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/81942)
   
   [http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=4056](http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=4056)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Cookies](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Cookies)
 * I am using 2.6.1.
 * Please help.
 * Regards,
    Ranjan

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 *  Thread Starter [Codd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ranjangoyal/)
 * (@ranjangoyal)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cakephp-wordpressbbpress-auto-login/#post-918177)
 * In addition to the above, I also tried but never successful. Am I making a mistake
   here?
 *     ```
       $url = "http://site.com/demo/makeover/blog/forum/bb-login.php";
       $re = "http://site.com/demo/makeover/blog/";
       $_wp_http_referer = "/demo/makeover/blog/forum/bb-login.php";
   
       $curlPost = "user_login=".$username."&password=".$password."&re=".$re."&_wp_http_referer=".$_wp_http_referer;
   
       $ch = curl_init();
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 10);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $curlPost);
       curl_exec($ch);
       curl_close($ch);
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Codd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ranjangoyal/)
 * (@ranjangoyal)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cakephp-wordpressbbpress-auto-login/#post-918185)
 * I also tried other way round.
 * Ist I activated sessions in WordPress and then I changed the following function:
 *     ```
       function wp_generate_auth_cookie($user_id, $expiration) {
       	$user = get_userdata($user_id);
   
       	$key = wp_hash($user->user_login . '|' . $expiration);
       	$hash = hash_hmac('md5', $user->user_login . '|' . $expiration, $key);
   
       	/********************************/
       	$_SESSION['userid'] = $user_id;
       	$_SESSION['user'] = $user->user_login;
       	/*******************************/
   
       	$cookie = $user->user_login . '|' . $expiration . '|' . $hash;
   
       	return apply_filters('auth_cookie', $cookie, $user_id, $expiration);
       }
       ```
   
 * Code in between
    /********************************/ /*******************************/
   is added by me and I am able to register sessions but these session variables
   are not visible on the cakephp side means on mainsite.
 * any directions and any help is highly appreciated.
 * Regards,
    Ranjan

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