User authentication via XML-RPC

Hello,

I am developing a software for my client and he wants to use amember for billing. My goal is to create own login form and urls/paths protection code. My software is written in python (fastcgi) and uses bit strange urls scheme, so I don't like mod_rewrite and other protection methods described here: http://manual.amember.com/Protection_Methods. Basically I need a way to ask amember about user's login/password validity and check if user has access (subscription active) to required product. I see 2 variants how to do this:

1) make SQL queries to amember mysql database from my code. Do not want to do this because my software uses another database system (so I must maintain another connection pool for mysql, etc). Also I can have problems if database structure will be changed after amember upgrade or something.

2) use XML-RPC API. I found example of "get_user" function usage and can use it to check if user has access to required product (data["status"][product_id] if I understand right). But what XML-RPC method can be used to validate login/password pair and receive member_id ? I think it must be "check_login" but can't find example how to call it right way. Can't find something helpful in manual/forum. I'm playing with trial version of amember - source code is encrypted, so I don't have opportunity to review it.

Please help me.

P.S.: sorry for long text and bad English.

Hello,

Thank you for reply, Alexander. But I have some troubles with your solution:

"select member_id, login, pass, email from amember_members;" SQL query returns following:

| 2 | test | test | test@example.com |

I'm using this code (python) for testing:

import xmlrpclib
srv = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("http://rpc_login_here:rpc_password_here@my_domain_here/amember/xmlrpc/index.php")
srv.check_uniq_login({"login": "test", "pass": "test", "email": "test@example.com", "check_type": 2})

And server returns -1 to me. Don't understand where is a problem.


And another small question: is any way to authenticate using only login (or only email) + password present? Login form that asks both login and email looks bit strange as for me.

Thank you again for reply, Alexander. But seems I'm doing something wrong:

In database I have following record:

mysql> select member_id, login, pass, email from amember_members;"
+-----------+-------+-------+------------------+
| member_id | login | pass | email |
+-----------+-------+-------+------------------+
| 2 | test | test | test@example.com |
+-----------+-------+-------+------------------+


Using following python code for testing:

import xmlrpclib
srv = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("http://rpc_login_here:rpc_password_here@my_domain_here/amember/xmlrpc/index.php")
srv.check_login({"login": "test", "pass": "test"})

And amember returns "" (blank string) The same happens if I call check_login with wrong login/password values. For wrong call like srv.check_login("test", "test") it returns 0.

My amember version is 3.2.3TRIAL (from Utilities -> Version info), php version is 5.3.3 if this matters.

It works now! Thank you, Alexander. We will buy amember soon, because it is the best software for users management that I seen. But will be nice to have good documentation for developers/software integrators someday