It seems there are a lot of problems with phpbb integration that are all simple fixes and, like most things, implementation problems. So here's mine: Using phpbb2 plugin. Set up bb. Admin name was 'john' (for sake of discussion). Created special product (amember) for john that allows him access to his control panel (for him to deal w/ website, less options, less technical) He's subscribed, his user info says he's a phpbb admin... login to amember, go to forum...he's logged in, yay. Click "administrator panel" link at the bottom of the forum. Asks for password verify (his username is already sitting pretty) .....all this is normal, so far..... He enters the password and....it says invalid suchandsuch and displays login box (blank) and won't let user 'john' log in. Help!!
Sorry, last sentence is not clear for me "He enters the password and....it says invalid suchandsuch and displays login box (blank) and won't let user 'john' log in.". It is better if you contact us via helpdesk with all access info and we try and debug that. Another IMPORTANT thing is to never manage your phpBB admin users with aMember, it is just dangerous. Keep your user in phpBB and everything will work, I hope nobody is going to sell admin access There is little inconvenience for "john" to have different usernames for aMember and for forum, but there are no easy ways to fix that.
I hope nobody is selling admin access, either... What i think you are saying is that amember user "john" cannot be an administrator in phpbb (even though the amember cp user info lets you set admin status (when phpbb plugin is installed))? Is there a way to script loggin in to phpbb as "johndoe" (administrator) when "john" logs in to amember?
Yes, I mean if you have admin user "john" in your phpBB, don't create user "john" in aMember, and aMember will not touch this user at all. It is possible for admin to login and check "remember password" to aMember as "john" and to phpBB as "johndoe" and then there won't be any troubles.
This follows. What i'm asking, i think, may not be appropriate for this forum. I'm wanting to somehow authenticate "john" as phpbb "johndoe" for the duration of the session where "john" is logged in to amember with some automatic script that applies just to "john"....maybe via the protected area that "john"s subscription accesses.
Interesting effect If, in amember user profile, "john" is set 'yes' for 'phpbb administrator' field, he logs into phpbb automatically. In the forum, he clicks "go to administration panel" link at the bottom of the screen, up comes re-authentication screen (normal) with username field already containing "john" and password field blank. He types in the password and submits....up comes blank login fields, just like i posted to start this thread... So he enters "john" and "johns pass", he then sees re-authentication screen with "john" already there, retypes "johns pass", and now he finally gets to go to the administration panel!! Why is this?
I'm affraid it is side effect of amember single-login + phpbb special handling for admins. I will say one more time - it is NOT recommended to add your phpBB admins into aMember. Leave these usernames only in phpBB and aMember won't touch them.
phpBB Administrator In the phpBB plugin for aMember, what is the purpose of the "phpBB Administrator" field in the user profile? It does not seem to allow aMember-authenticated users into the phpBB administrative area. Specifically, if I try to go to the /phpBB/admin directory of phpBB, I am redirected to /phpBB. This is the only problem I've had with the plugin. It otherwise works great!
I'm having the same problem. They login to the protected area and are automatically logged into phpBB with the same username. Works fine for everybody, but when a admin tries to access the forum admin panel through phpBB they are prompted to re-enter their password just like normal with phpBB.... except phpBB won't accept it and admin can't get to the admin panel. The only admin that it will work for is the original admin I configured the forums with and I really need at least two other users to have admin profiles under their regular login names! Anything I can do to fix this? I have them set as admin in phpBB AND I have the admin option in amember set to yes for everyone in question...
cant login to phpbb after amember installation Hi, I we also have the same problem. We installed the phpbb first. We can login to the phpbb forum admin panel, add users, working fine. Then we installed the amember in the same folder where the phpbb forum was located. Then after integrating the two, we noticed that we could not login to the phpbb forum. Any login account we use we cant. Its a good thing that its still a test forum. We are just learning this amember, and we dont know what to do. Thanks
before integration with phpbb Im sorry there is a correction. The phpbb forum has a different folder with amember. I read through the amember FAQs in http://www.amember.com/kb/ and i found out that in creating an integration, "make sure your plugin is not already implemented" from http://www.amember.com/kb/index.php#entry_26. In our case, we already installed phpbb before amember. Could this be the reason why we cant login to phpbb admin panel? Do we have to re install the phpbb again? Thanks again.