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Integrating phpBB3 login on your sites

Have you ever wanted to allow your users to sign into their phpBB 3 accounts from your homepage? In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how!
All you need is:

1. A web host with PHP and MySQL.
2. An installed copy of phpBB 3.
3. A website to integrate it with.

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Integrating phpBB 3's login is actually very simple. All it involves is pasting (and editing where necessary) a single piece of code, and here it is:
<form method="post" action="http://www.PATHTOYOURFORUMS/ucp.php?mode=login">
<p><input name="username" type="text" id="username" /></p>
<p><input name="password" type="password" id="password" /></p>
<p><input name="redirect" value="where/to/go/after/login" type="hidden">
<input name="login" class="mainoption" value="Log in" type="submit"></p>
</form>
Place this code (or similar code to suit your needs) into your templates login area. The most important parts of this code, and the bits it cannot function without are:
<form method="post" action="http://www.PATHTOYOURFORUMS/ucp.php?mode=login">
Without this piece of code, the form doesn't know where to send the details to; and without the details being sent to the right place, the login won't get processed. Make sure you change "http://www.PATHTOYOURFORUMS/" to your forums domain and folder (EG "www.dailytip.net/forum/"). Also, each input tag needs to keep its name no matter what. Without the names being as they are, phpBB 3 cannot get hold of the details the user has submitted.
The final piece of important code tells the script where to send users who have successfully logged in.
<input name="redirect" value="where/to/go/after/login" type="hidden">
Change the value to the place you want users to be sent; for example "./forums/" or "index.php".

[CrazeD]

This doesn't integrate anything. It just adds a login box linked to the forums login. After logging in, you'll still have the option of logging in on the home page.. because no cookies or sessions are shared.

To truly integrate it, you have to break down PHPBB's login/session system and write code to share it, so if you login on the homepage it logs you into the forums, and vise versa.