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combrains

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Authenticating against contact DB
January 15, 2012, 05:15:08 pm
Hi All,

I'm looking for a way to have contacts automatically created and authenticated against my Civi contact DB.  I have had a look at the CiviUser plugin but this authenticates against the Membership directory.  The organization I'm designing my site for has two groups of users: paid members and supporters.  I'm wondering if it is possible to mod the CiviUser plugin so that it authenticates against the contact DB so that ALL users (paid and free) can edit their own contact info etc.

I can work around this by adding a free membership type to the membership module, and setting this as the default type for all who register to the site, but this seems a little cumbersome.

My knowledge of PHP and SQL is next to nothing, so if anyone is interested in helping with a solution in any way, it would be much appreciated.

Cheers

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Re: Authenticating against contact DB
January 15, 2012, 11:15:46 pm
Breaking this down into two parts your looking for your users to be automatically created and then authenticated against the Civi DB.  The easiest way to do this (that I can think of) would be to create a free membership level unless you want to get into the code.

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Re: Authenticating against contact DB
January 16, 2012, 04:12:59 pm
Hi Speleo,

Hi figured that creating a free membership would be the easiest way.  I have my development server up now so I'll let you know how I get on.

Cheers
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