2 // Authentication by looking up an external database table
4 // This code is completely untested so far - I'm just jotting down ideas ...
5 // Looks like it should work though ...
7 $CFG->auth_dbhost = "localhost";
8 $CFG->auth_dbtype = "mysql"; // (postgresql, etc)
9 $CFG->auth_dbname = "authtest";
10 $CFG->auth_dbtable = "users";
11 $CFG->auth_dbuser = "user";
12 $CFG->auth_dbpass = "pass";
13 $CFG->auth_dbfielduser = "user";
14 $CFG->auth_dbfieldpass = "pass";
16 function auth_user_login ($username, $password) {
17 // Returns true if the username and password work
18 // and false if they are wrong or don't exist.
22 ADOLoadCode($CFG->auth_dbtype);
23 $authdb = &ADONewConnection();
24 $authdb->PConnect($CFG->auth_dbhost,$CFG->auth_dbuser,$CFG->auth_dbpass,$CFG->auth_dbname);
27 $rs = $authdb->Execute("SELECT * FROM $CFG->auth_dbtable
28 WHERE $CFG->auth_dbfielduser = '$username'
29 AND $CFG->auth_dbfieldpass = '$password' ");
31 notify("Could not connect to the specified authentication database...");
35 if ( $rs->RecordCount() ) {