Sharing a session between vBulletin forum and status.net microblogging platform
- by jaz
Hello,
I need to integrate vBulletin 4.0.3 Publishing Suite with status.net microblogging platform.
The first thing I need to do is make these 2 to share 1 session so a user logged in vBulletin forums will also be logged in to status.net and vice versa.
I have installed different vBulletin components under different subdomains:
forums.sample.com - vBulletin forums
blogs.sample.com - vBulletin blogs
sample.com - vBulletin content management
All of these point to the same place (.../public_html/index.php) which includes the respective php file (content.php for sample.com | blog.php for blogs.sample.com | forum.php for forums.sample.com) depending on the $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
I have configured vBulletin to use a single cookie.domain (.sample.com) for all of these 3 domains so visiting different domains doesn't break the session.
I also have status.sample.com, which is the subdomain where status.net is installed. The subdomain configuration is different so the document_root is actually a subfolder (.../public_html/status/) in sample.com
Now, can you please give me some pointers on how to make all these subdomains share a single session?
I'm not sure if it helps, but as I understand, status.net does no custom session handling by default, but it is possible to turn it on so it will start storing session data in a database table called "session".
Any tips will be appreciated.
Thank you.
