tbenyon

Hey @fltdarryl ,

This is quite a custom hashing system. As far as I’m aware not many others will use this.

For this reason, I am hesitant to code an option into the code for your specific situation as the plugin would get bloated if I did this for every custom setup.

What I could do is add a hook in. This would allow you to add your own authentication for this hash in to the functions.php file. I’d be happy to give you some sample code to add there.

What’s your thoughts on this?

Hey @yahyabassa,

Linking roles from MySQL
I can’t replicate this 🙁

I’m going to ask for you to give me more help to figure this out as at the moment I have nothing to go on.

Ideas to try:

• Check that your plugins are all up to date and WordPress is too
• Try a different browser
• Disable all other plugins and see if the issue persists
• Look in the dev tools in the browser to see if any errors get logged and report them back to me
• Look in the PHP error logs and see if any error are getting reported and pass them on to me
• Try updating your version of PHP

Creating a Cookie
This is a bit out of the scope of support for this plugin as it is separate functionality but I wanted to help you out.

I think the code is pretty readable but if you have questions about it let me know. The data is being stored in the cookie as a JSON string but you can modify as you like.

function benyon_user_login_cookie_store($user_login) {
    $current_user_id = get_user_by('login', $user_login)->ID;

    $user_meta = get_userdata($current_user_id);

    $user_roles = $user_meta->roles;

    $user_data = array(
        "user_id" => $current_user_id,
        "user_roles" => $user_roles
    );

    $cookie_name = "WP_USER";
    $cookie_value = json_encode($user_data);
    setcookie($cookie_name, $cookie_value, time() + (86400 * 30), "/"); // 86400 = 1 day
}

add_action('wp_login', 'benyon_user_login_cookie_store');

Tom

Regarding your first paragraph – I think we’re agreed on the way forward for now.

Not sure what you meant by “then used the encrypted string in the variable definition”. Not quite sure how you mean by this flow.

Hey @yahyabassa,

Just wanted to acknowledge I’ve seen this and say I’m going to try and look at this this weekend for you.

In the meantime can you confirm the version number of the plugin you’ve got installed?

Thanks,

Tom

Hey @ccsimmons,

This is a good idea.

Added security in this way can be attained by defining the password in the code like so:

define('EXTERNAL_LOGIN_OPTION_DB_PASSWORD', 'root');

An even better approach in my opinion is to set it with an environment variable like so:
define('EXTERNAL_LOGIN_OPTION_DB_PASSWORD', getenv('MY_EXLOG_DB_PASSWORD_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE'));

If I were to implement your suggestion, I might make it so that you can’t see the password again after it was set rather than being able uncover it. This would add additional security as other users would not be able to uncover it. What’s your opinion on that?

Hey @yahyabassa,

I’m glad you’re finding the plugin useful 🙂

Linking roles from MySQL
What exactly is the issue?
Are the roles not getting created in WordPress but the rest of the user is?
Could you let me know what settings you have activated?

Creating a Cookie
What exactly do you want to do and what do you want to store in the cookie?
Do you want to create the cookie when someone logs in and just store the user ID and then delete it when they log out?

Hey Chris (@ccsimmons),

Great that that’s worked!!! 😊

I’d be SUPER grateful if you could take a moment to write me a review:

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/external-login/reviews/#new-post

Thanks,

Tom

Hey Chris (@ccsimmons),

Just saw the money come through – really grateful thank you.

I can’t promise but I should have some time this weekend to look into this so if it’s a quickie I’ll try and get it done.

Will message you back either way. If you haven’t heard from me by Monday, feel free to chase me!

Thanks again,

Tom