[FX.php List] Use FMP Accts for CWP logins?

[Head Honcho]

Hi Jonathan,

A question.

Do all the "authorised" users have CWP "authority"?

If so, then if they are correctly authenticated then they can continue  
(you've already captured their credentials for use elsewhere if  
necessary).

And you can trap for the incorrect authentication and send them back  
to the login screen to try again, just as you normally would.  So  
instead of trapping for "not found" trap for "not authenticated"

HTH.

On 22/02/2009, at 11:04 AM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:

> Thanks William,
>
> This one is making my head hurt..because there are two kinds of  
> authentication here:
>
> 1) CWP Authentication, for the right to interact with the DB
> 2) User authentication, for the right to login to the fx.php web  
> solution
>
> We all use the FMP Accounts and Privileges to establish the CWP  
> Authentication.
>
> My question is whether we can use FMP Accounts and Privileges  
> *again* to authenticate the user logging in a login script, so that  
> a separate User table is not needed to hold the Username and Password.
>
> By the Way, I don't believe your example below will work. It has the  
> form's email address POST value being submitted for the CWP  
> "Account" value.
>
> Another observation, even if one were to try and use an FMP Accounts  
> and Privileges Name/Password pair, fx.php throws an XML error if the  
> the CWP authentication fails in the very likely event that a  
> username and/or password is entered incorrectly. That's not good.
>
> This last observation might be the nail in coffin for this idea.
>
> Yes? No? Maybe?
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> At 11:16 PM +0000 2/21/09, William Downs wrote:
>> Hi Jonathon,
>>
>> Just use the login details as the parameters in the FX instance -
>>
>> <form id="adrMain" action="adrMain.php" method="post">
>>            Email Address:<br />
>>            <input type="text" name="manEmail" value=""></input><br />
>>            Password:<br />
>>            <input type="password" name="manPassword" value=""></ 
>> input><br />
>>            <input type="submit" class="a" name="manLogin"
>> value="Login"></input>
>> </form>
>>
>> Then on processing page
>>
>> $dbUser            = $_POST['manEmail'];
>> $dbPassword    = $_POST['manPassword'];
>>
>> $medList=new FX($serverIP,$webCompanionPort,'FMPro7');
>> $medList->SetDBData($fmFile,'MedList',$groupSize);
>> $medList->SetDBPassword($dbPassword,$dbUser);
>>
>> $medListResult=$medList->FMFindAll();
>>
>> But perhaps I am not understanding you properly ?
>>
>> Kindest
>>
>> WIlliam
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Jonathan Schwartz
>> <jschwartz at exit445.com> wrote:
>>> In the past, I've always constructed dedicated User tables for use  
>>> in user
>>> authentication (login) in my fx.php solutions.  Now, I have a  
>>> project where
>>> there are dozens of potential authorized users that already have  
>>> FMP account
>>> (name and password).
>>>
>>> I'm scratching my head trying to figure out how to use the  
>>> existing FMP
>>> accounts in an fx.php login script, rather than recreate the data  
>>> in a
>>> dedicated User table.
>>>
>>> How to do?
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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