Hey,

I'm building a site for a customer that has an external user database he wishes to enable as well on his site.

Basically the setup currently is that a user can either register on his Joomla site with Community Builder or get authenticated via a php curl post.

The site is wanted to function so, that a user don't have to confirm his email after registering, and it works well for users who register via the registration on the site. (Community builder registration).

However, I would also need to get the auto-approve working for user who register via the external database. The code I'm using is somewhat identical to the Joomla's gmail authentication plugin, only difference is that the curl post url is different. Pasting here what the code does in the end once a user has been successfully identified from the external database:

if ($success)
{

$response->status = JAUTHENTICATE_STATUS_SUCCESS;
$response->error_message = '';
$response->email = $aResponse;
$response->fullname = utf8_encode($aResponse . ' ' .$aResponse);

}
else
{
$response->status = JAUTHENTICATE_STATUS_FAILURE;
$response->error_message = 'Failed to authenticate: ' . $message;
}


As far as I know I should add something to the code to make the user auto-approved in community builder, since after a site user has succesfully logged in to Joomla from the external database and attempts to view his profile he gets an error that the account has not yet been approved by a moderator, even though the accounts should be automatically approved.

So, my question is, how to enable the users logging to the site with an external database to become automatically approved? Since I've noticed it requires some hacking to the login / registration.

Thanks!

Hey and thanks for your response.

The code responsible for registering the user to the site is Joomla default code (haven't touched it so not even sure where it is located yet) and thus the user is registered to Joomla not to Community Builder directly. However, the new user details get synchronized to CB automatically as well upon registering.

My knowledge of Joomla code is not very high yet so I'll paste the rest of my authentication code for you:

<?php
/**
* Package info etc.
*/

// Check to ensure this file is included in Joomla!
defined('_JEXEC') or die( 'Restricted access' );

jimport( 'joomla.plugin.plugin' );

/**
* MY Authentication Plugin
*
* @package Joomla
* @subpackage JFramework
* @since 1.5
*/
class plgAuthenticationHanken extends JPlugin
{
/**
* Constructor foobar
*/
function plgAuthenticationMYSITE(& $subject, $config) {
parent::__construct($subject, $config);
}

/**
* This method should handle any authentication and report back to the subject
*
* @access public
* @param array $credentials Array holding the user credentials
* @param array $options Array of extra options
* @param object $response Authentication response object
* @return boolean
* @since 1.5
*/

function onAuthenticate( $credentials, $options, &$response )
{
$message = '';
$success = 0;
if(function_exists('curl_init'))
{
if(strlen($credentials) && strlen($credentials))
{
$curlHandle = curl_init();

After this the Curl works and gives the user a response whether the login was successful or not as I pasted earlier.

The users are registering to the site from frontend by simply typing their external username and password to the CB login fields. This is enabled from the CB backend by choosing Login field type to be:
Username, email or enabled CMS authentication plugins.

Hope this info helps a bit.

Okey thanks,

I will look for an examples from the Facebook plugin.