Newbie question: Login in Moodle from distant html form

Newbie question: Login in Moodle from distant html form

by Chris St-Pierre -
Number of replies: 3

Hi there,

I'm putting together a PHP site. I would like to add a simple HTML form that would allow my visitors to log directly into moodle hosted on a different server. Here is what I picked up from the current login page:

   <form action="http://myhost/moodle/index.php" method="post" name="form" id="form">
     <input type="text" name="username" size="15" value="" />
     <input type="password" name="password" size="15" value="" /> 
     <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Connexion" />
    </form>

It does not work. There is probably another <INPUT> I'm missing to succesfully connect. Sounds simple but I can't make it work...

Could anybody please give me a hint? My site is in PHP so I can get Session Id, etc.

Thanks!

 

Chris

 

 

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Re: Newbie question: Login in Moodle from distant html form

by Martin Dougiamas -
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In Moodle 1.0.9, make sure "secureforms" is turned OFF in the admin's configuration page.
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Re: Newbie question: Login in Moodle from distant html form

by Chris St-Pierre -

Thanks Martin,

I still always come back to http://myhost/login/index.php  as if there was something missing with the form. Since I have chosen to use only the course key as authentification, I wish simply to go straight to say: http://myhost/course/enrol.php?id=2 WITHOUT having to stop by /login/index first... I figured it would have been easy to logon as "guest"...

Is there a way for me to formulate a simple URL that would have me go to straight to http://myhost/course/enrol.php?id=2 by clicking on a web link from another web site? I really tried to go around the different scripts but still, I'm fairly new to php...

Thanks for your time!

 

Chris

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Re: Newbie question: Login in Moodle from distant html form

by Chris St-Pierre -

Found it!

When you submit the form from a distant html page, $SESSION->wantsurl is empty when processed by login/index.php .

  <form action="http://myhost/login/index.php" method="post" name="form" id="form">
     <input type="text" name="username" >
     <input type="password" name="password"> 
     <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Connexion" />
    </form>

Since you can find the following code in login/index.php:

...

     } else if (empty($SESSION->wantsurl)) {
                redirect($CFG->wwwroot);

...

it caused my attemp to submit my form to login/index.php to redirect  straight to index.php

To solve the problem:

1) With a decent php script  (Postnuke block) I generate an extra dynamic hidden <input> in the form that would submit  the desired url with value="../course/enrol.php?id=..."  I use $url

2) In login/index.php I altered the code a little:

...else if (empty($SESSION->wantsurl)) {
      if (empty(frm->$url)){
          redirect($CFG->wwwroot);
 }    else redirect(frm->$url);
}

For me it works wonderfully and does not change anything if someone decides to use the conventionnal login process.

Hope this might help one day!!!

 

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