Authentication plugin

Hi,

I would like the authentication in dolphin to be done against for example a ldap server.

I dont think this is possible in vanilla dolphin ?

Is there an extension/plugin to do that ? By the way I searched the extensions on unity and all pages seemed kind of broken because there seems to have results according to the top right pane but when you click on the category most of the time you have "sorry no resuts found". (click on security for example)

Sorry I'm very new to dolphin, if no extension are available can I write it myself (I'm a confirmed php developer) or extensions are only doable in certain areas ?

And lastly, if at last resort I have to change the trunk code to add this option to dolphin, can I contribute to the SVN or something to avoid having to make a branch and to benefit to the community ?

Thanx

Archange

The way I would do it is through phpbb3, which comes with a ldap auth plugin.

It would take a bit of code work but I am very familier with what would need to done, sense I just wrote a very basic bridge for dolphin and phpbb3.

If this is an option for you and you would be willing to pay me or you would be interested in working something out. I could have this done in about three days.

contact me here or via email xero.00@hotmail.com You can also add me to msn messeenger there!

Ohh lmao I just noticed your a confirmed php dev, so chances are your not going to hire me to get this done. Add me to messenger and ill go through some stuff with you and get you pointed in the right direction!

Thanx for your very fast reply ryne. (nice picture by the way, mine seemed to have crashed during upload...)

The thing is, I dont think I need phpbb3 and this would seem a bit weird to install phpbb to just login in the rest of dolphin (music, videos, articles etc...) no ?

By the way (I saw indeed your other messages about your phpbb3 port, that's nice), does your modifications break the compatibility with the dolphin vanilla source code ?

Many thanx for your proposition I may have a chat with you later indeed ;)

Hmmm, well if you dont need phpbb3 then yeah I would say that it would be rather stupid just to have it to manage your logins, Though at the same time people have done crazier things!

My source to my knowledge does not break anything, just bridges dolphin with PHPBB3... regaurdless of what login method is used for phpbb3.....

It only modifies two files and they are rather small out of the way modifications to be honest... phpbb3 has a built in API for stuff like this that makes it easy to work with...

Now concerning your ldap problem for the most part its pretty straight forwards. The problem with Dolphin though is that logins and what not can be pretty variablized.

What I would do is post my stuff to say AuthLdap.php, and then do a check if true I check it agsent a mysql database and update the mysql as needed.... This way you keep most of dolphins core functionality as well as being able to seemlessly merge to mysql.

I am kind of confused really what your overall goals here and why you would want such a thing! However I would be interested greatly in creating an authplugin system for dolphin so email me or add me to msn messenger at xero.00@hotmail.com and I will brain storm with you!