External authentication / Single sign-on

• Status: incomplete (works with FluxBB 1.3 dev)
• Current version: external_auth 0.9, alt_header 0.9
• Source: alt_header.zip & external_auth.zip

Add single sign-on to your forum. External authentication is a pair of extensions, which in combination, allow you to integrate PunBB into an existing site which has a user management system or CRM. It will make PHP calls to code of your choice (to define $username), and will auto-generate a user in the PunBB tables.

• External authentication (external_auth) - Allows authentication of users based on external script. Any currently logged-in user ($username defined) from your CRM will auto-generate a user in Flux/Pun. This script will run some code that links with our CRM, and then defines PHP code to set $username.

• Alternative header (alt_header) - Replaces the FluxBB header with a custom version, with slightly adjusted layout. This is useful if the login/logout is part of your main site template and does not need to appear in the PunBB header also.

• The extension is one-way from your CRM to PunBB, based on $username. If a user changes their username, they will not be able to edit their old posts.
• It may be preferable to combine the two extensions
• The extensions fail on PunBB 1.3.1

• Version 0.9 - July 2008. Credit www.idea.org. Designed by Michael Douma, Written by Connorhd. This version worked with the FluxBB 1.3 dev. They fail on both FluxBB v718, and also PunBB 1.3.1

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• Forums topic: https://punbb.informer.com/forums/post/120324/
• Extension is not published.