Login to forumotion forums from different site?

[mrchasez]

Forumotion hosts my forums, but on my main site ( not forumotion )
I want to have a login / register thing. So they could login and register from my website?
Is this possible?

[LGforum]

Yes.
The best way to do it, would be to make a HTML page on your forum, with a log in form in. (the log in form will obviously log people into your forum).
Then on your actual site, have an Iframe displaying that log in form.
Therefore they can log in to your forum.

To make them register, then you'll just have to have a link on your site.

[mrchasez]

uh.

An example?
I was looking more like, they can register / login and stay on my main site.

[LGforum]

Yes. This will do just that.

Take my steps slowly.
Create a log in form in a HTML page. This tutorial will provide a log in form for you: https://help.forumotion.com/t262-log-in-form-for-the-faq

After that, go to your main site. And have somewhere:

Code:


<iframe src="URL OF YOUR FORUM HTML PAGE WITH LOG IN FORM" width="SET THE WIDTH" height="SET THE HEIGHT" frameborder="0" name="fmlogin"></iframe>


And that will mean, on your main site, people will see a log in form. That when they enter their details in it. It will log them into your site.

[mrchasez]

How can i get this but for registering >??????

It lets the user login, but my whole forums becomes a little box on my webstie 0.0

How can i do that but for registering?

[mrchasez]

Better yet, how about when they login from the login on my website, It auto takes them to my forums?

[LGforum]

You'll need to use Javascript to change the functions of things inside the Iframe.

Someting like this will (should) work:

Code:


$(function() {
var iframe=parent.fmlogin;
$(iframe).find('form').attr('target','_top');
});


So when the form is submitted, it submits and changes the actual page, not the contents in the iframe. Thus taking the user to your forum.

[ioncube]

You'll need to use Javascript to change the functions of things inside the Iframe.

Someting like this will (should) work:

Code:


$(function() {
var iframe=parent.fmlogin;
$(iframe).find('form').attr('target','_top');
});


So when the form is submitted, it submits and changes the actual page, not the contents in the iframe. Thus taking the user to your forum.

Trying to understand your code using this as a html code for the login form

Code:

 <form action="http://engineering.forumotions.info/login.forum" method="post">
    <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0">
      <tr>
        <td width="25%" align="right"><br />
        Username:</td>

        <td><input type="text" name="username" id="username" size="11" maxlength=
        "40" /></td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <td align="right"><br />
        Password:</td>

        <td><input type="password" name="password" id="password" size="11" maxlength=
        "32" /></td>
      </tr>

      <tr align="center">
        <td colspan="2">Remember me: <input type="checkbox" name="autologin" checked=
        "true" /></td>
      </tr>

      <tr align="center">
        <td colspan="2"><input type="submit" class="mainoption" name="login" value=
        "Log in" /></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </form>

I cannot understand this part

Code:

var iframe=parent.fmlogin;

...& this

Code:

$(iframe).find('form').attr('target','_top');

supposedly will add target blank feature to form tag Yes?

[LGforum]

if you look at the Iframe HTML you can see i have given it a name of 'fmlogin'

Code:


<iframe src="URL OF YOUR FORUM HTML PAGE WITH LOG IN FORM" width="SET THE WIDTH" height="SET THE HEIGHT" frameborder="0" name="fmlogin"></iframe>

And so it can be accessed in JS by:

Code:


var iframe=parent.fmlogin;


Now it can be manipulated like other elements. For some examples:

Code:


iframe.style.display="none";
iframe.style.width="100%";


etc etc...

In my original code it was actually wrong.
It was supposed to be var iframe=parent.fmlogin.document;
Therefore the DOM of the contents within the iframe is accessed.

[mrchasez]

So i should add that to my index.html
or make a Js file?

[ioncube]

Plus one for explaination