Vanilla forum Login With CodeIgniter Tank Auth?

Last updated on January 17, 2018

Before writing any script login into your installed vanilla forum, go to addons section , Click on Plugins , in that page you will find Vanilla jsConnect Pugin(or go to http://vanillaforums.org/addons search for Vanilla jsConnect) Enable it, configure the fallowing settings

Client ID : The client ID uniquely identifies the site. You can generate a new ID with the button at the bottom of this page.
Secret : The secret secures the sign in process. Do NOT give the secret out to anyone.
Site Name :Enter a short name for the site. This is displayed the signin buttons.
Authenticate Url : The location of the jsonp formatted authentication data.
Sign In Url :The url that users use to sign in.
Register Url : The url that users go to to register for a new account.

Now go to your CodeIgniter Application , open Tank_Auth Auth Controller(Auth.php) add a new method ,Example vanilla(), Download CodeIgniter-jsConnect library and place it in applications/library folder

  function vanilla()
  {
// Enabled $_GET method for Vanilla method  
       parse_str(substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'?')+1,strlen($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])-strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'?')),$_GET);
    // load jsconnect library 
    $this->load->library('jsconnect');
    // set Client ID
    $client_id = "";
    // set Secret id 
    $secret = "";

    $vanUser = array();
		
    if ($this->tank_auth->is_logged_in()) 
    { 
      $this->userID = $this->tank_auth->get_user_id();
      $this->userName = $this->tank_auth->get_username();
      $this->user = $this->users->getUserByID($this->userID);
      
     $vanUser['uniqueid'] = $this->userID;
     $vanUser['name'] = $this->user->username;
     $vanUser['email'] = $this->user->email;
    // $vanUser['photourl'] = $this->user->ProfilePicture;
    }
     $secure = TRUE; 
     $this->jsconnect->WriteJsConnect($vanUser,$_GET, $client_id, $secret, $secure);
  }