Comments on: WordPress Auto-Login

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:49:41 +0000

I just implemented this into my plugin. Running WP 3.3 and BuddyPress 1.5.2 Took me all but 5 mins.

It works great! I need to tweak it to get it to thoroughly authenticate in BuddyPress, but it got me to a 98% completion in 5 minutes time. I have been searching for days on the right action hooks to use and came up empty at all turns.

Excellent script Leon! Thanks.

By: Monjurul Hoque

Monjurul Hoque — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:42:30 +0000

i tried it also but don’t work in new version 3.2.1
plz can u tell me the exact problem or anything i missed?

my role was one pass for one time login.

thanks

By: charly

charly — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:48:47 +0000

hello

i try to us your code on wp 3.01 put dont make it work

i am looking for an auto login from another site, not wordpress.
juste one user is ok

thank

By: Fabricio

Fabricio — Sun, 29 May 2011 17:45:41 +0000

Hi Leon, Tombo, and everybody,

Tombo, I had the same experience that you have described above, how you solved the problem of session variables?

How to establish a session with wp before refered it, i´m using xml rpc calls to access functions exposes through wp, i can add a user, list, update, but a i can´t login a user, i don´t know why,

I thank you,

By: Tombo

Tombo — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:38:47 +0000

Nevermind! I figured it out. My session variables were empty due to not establishing a session under WP before I referenced them.

By: Tombo

Tombo — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:08:44 +0000

Hi Leon.

Thanks for your posting of the auto login. But I am afraid I cannot get it to work. I have put it in a .php file and placed it in the plugins directory and activated it via the admin tool. I have changed $user_login = $_SESSION['MM_MemberID']; which contains the id of the site use which is also the WP id. I am unclear as to how to get it to execute. I have an iFrame that has a link: The only thing that happens is the Hello World page comes up and then I have to click the Log In link that takes me to the login page where I have to input my id and pw. I sure woudld appreciate some of your kindness in helping me to get this auto login to work. I know I am doing something stupid but I need a WP guru like you to point it out. Thanks. Tombo.

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By: leon

leon — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:48:50 +0000

Linda, to my knowledge there is no built in way to have PHP and .Net code communicate. However, you can build this yourself. For example, if you view the HTML output of a .Net page you will see the hidden “__VIEWSTATE” control. You can create a parser to translate this encoded information in PHP. Or, simply create another hidden variable in the page that both .Net and PHP and access (you may want to encrypt this information).

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:58:06 +0000

Leon,

Assuming that we can work around that acceptably, how does the .Net code talk to the WordPress PHP code in order to exchange the user information. Another developer in my company works with the .Net environment. I am a technical writer working with WordPress. Are there system variales known by both .Net and WordPress/PHP? For example:

.Net moves username and user password to $variable1 and $variable2 respectively.
WordPress PHP reads $variable1 and $variable2 values into $_Postvar1 and $_Postvar2 respectively.

By: leon

leon — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:28:41 +0000

Linda, it depends on how important security is to the site because you will have to store the authentication credentials in an inherently insecure location (e.g. inside the page as a post/get variable or in a secure cookie).