Code to confirm member's name and password match?

[colinmcc]

Hi, I've had a proboards board for many years, probably 10 now. We're noticing that pictures posted and hosted elsewhere by members often go missing after a time as whatever picture hosting company ceases or the owner takes the image down.

We're in the process of setting up our own site to host our members pictures, and I wonder if it is possible that there is a 'call or interface' that our site can make to proboards' database to confirm that a username and password match.

I have written a php script using cURL to grab a list of all our members from the admin page(s), (this pulls in whole pages, a Regex then parses out the member's names into a array) but obviously have no access to the matching passwords.

All I need is to be able to send a username and pw entered by the member to proboards and have a response of pass or fail, and I can then grant access to the picture upload form or not.

Is there an interface to do that?

Thanks!

[Malagrond]

I wouldn't use that script too often. Maybe once a month would be tolerable, but I can't make such assertions on behalf of anyone/anything official. It's against the TOS to grab content from your forum, but tolerance has been shown to sparingly-used scripts.

As far as the verification, I know of no way to do so at the moment. However, perhaps you could approach the ProBoards development team. Who knows, maybe they'd make a partnership with you to be the official image host. I'd use such a service if it meant saving me one more account creation

[iDunk]

This is one thing that I know I (as well as many others) am hoping for, is a way of officially authenticating our users on other systems/servers. *crosses fingers for this ability in v5*

[colinmcc]

I appreciate the need not to make frequent calls to proboards from an external site, my plan was to run a cron job once a day to grab the current members list.. If a 'new' (unknown to my page) member tries to post a picture I was just going to tell him to wait 24 hours before uploading a picture..

I haven't yet located the TOS that would relate to this, so could you please give me the url so that I can go and read it?

Many thanks!

[Malagrond]

Bottom of every forum

TOS

Section 19, article g).