Any PHP people?

[Animal]

I'm working on getting most of the site over to php and I need help with one particular problem. I would like to use phpnews and authenticate the users through vBulletin so that all users in a specified group or groups can have access to submit news without my having to do anything. This also keeps the logins and stuff nice and tidy. In the future, I would like to use this authentication for other areas of the site.

If you are pretty fluent with php, please step forward. For the time being this is the only thing I need a hand with and I wont require anymore of you, I promise. :biggrin:

[CorpseHumper]

I'm working on getting most of the site over to php and I need help with one particular problem. I would like to use phpnews and authenticate the users through vBulletin so that all users in a specified group or groups can have access to submit news without my having to do anything. This also keeps the logins and stuff nice and tidy. In the future, I would like to use this authentication for other areas of the site.

If you are pretty fluent with php, please step forward. For the time being this is the only thing I need a hand with and I wont require anymore of you, I promise. :biggrin:

Check with GMan (also known as Gemen from time-to-time). He did that for the news are on our site. Authorized users can post news once they login.

[Animal]

And I would get with Gman how? I know you guys use phpBB over there, does that store passwords in plain text or using an md5 hash? The authorized users isnt the problem, its getting them authorized through the password and login they already use for the forums.

[Sammie]

i know a little about php. I've been helping helstrm keep his site up for sometime now. I have full access to the helstrm php.
www.helstrm.net

I also have 24 hour access to helstrm himself if I have any questions.

So hook me up and I'll help out as much as I can.

[Animal]

What kind of access do you need? Right now I would like to use PHP News (http://newsphp.sourceforge.net/index.php) for news postings. However, I would like to be able to authenticate who can post news by who is in a certain usergroup in vBulletin. At the very least, I would like to be able to manually sync the two together (I'm sure this can be done with a simple script) so its less overhead for me and all GNG members can post news to the front page.

That helstrm site uses php nuke which I have used before, but I dont like it too much. I would rather customize my own stuff to give our wonderful members a unique experience.

Sammie, let me know what kind of access you need. Or if you can use your resources to at least point me in the right direction, that would be good.

[Sammie]

mmm, good question. Php nuke is the only version I have any experience with and since I have full access I'm not sure what levels of access are available. I never really paid much attention. I'm not a details person. I'm a big picture person....hahaha! I don't really mean that, I just want to get a Dubya line in there :lol:

Anyway, just let me know where you need an extra hand and give me the access to that area. I may need some assistance getting geared up but I'm a quick learner.

[CorpseHumper]

GMan has all kinds of contact options on the site. Email is probably best. I don't know it off the top of my head. Passwords are not stored in plain text. If someone forgets their password, it can be reset to a new one, but it can't be de-crypted. Users were selected from particular usergroups and authorized to post news that way.