Testers for the new challenge site!

[MHD]

I am playing with a new challenge site and I have to see if my ideas work.

The site will use self registration and I will be responsible monitoring that users are valid users at d70users.net

Entries will be done by the users and full size images may be uploaded

I will, (depending on opinion), instigate a challenge watermark to discourage theft

I invite anyone who wants to to go to:
challenge.potofgrass.com

register using your username here

Then I need you to test the submission procedure

then go to the gallery and go to the test challenge album
Upload a picture
in the drop down menu under the image select hide image
(as entries will be hidden until voting starts)

logout and check to make sure your image cant bee seen!

Let me know of bugs or suggestions keeping in mind the site is still under heavy construction!

[gstark]

The site will use self registration and I will be responsible monitoring that users are valid users at d70users.net

Scott,

Do you want to talk with me about this?

I can probably set up a PHP/ SQL script that will interrogate our database and return a confirmation of a valid userid for you. You should be able to just run the query script as a normal inline http:// website access, but look for a particular response string in the return value.

[MHD]

yep... I will implement that...
The good thing about the system I am using is that it is mySql based so it should be relitively easy..

This is just a test at this stage

[MHD]

actually I think the way to do it will be to import all the users from your PHPbb mysql database into my Postnuke database...

I will have a look at the configuration and it should be a peice of cake!

[gstark]

actually I think the way to do it will be to import all the users from your PHPbb mysql database into my Postnuke database...

I will have a look at the configuration and it should be a peice of cake!

Almost a good idea, except that dealing with new users might be an issue.

I'm wondering if there are also privacy issues?

[MHD]

I could hack the Nuke code... but that would involve accessing two DBs at the same time...

Passwords are encrypted so that is not a problem,

we could (well mainly you) that adds a user to my site when thier posts hit a certain number (a nightly cronjob?)

[MHD]

and I suppose the privacy issue could be resolved by just adding the pwd and uname and leaving it up to the user to enter the rest of the details

[Glen]

Scott, just logged in and uploaded a photo no problems. Instructions worked well, except change "the gallery" above to "the photos" to save yourself some emails. Photo was not visible, or yours, after logging out.

[MHD]

Good... Just did some quick checks and that should work a charm


now all I need to do is look into this user porting thing, which, I hope, should be straight forward...

[MCWB]

Scott: not sure it works with phpBB, but I've seen a nice authentication method that works with vB. Essentially when you sign up at the challenge site, you tell it your d70users username and you're given a unique number which you have to put into any field your profile (e.g. the ICQ # field, AIM field etc). You then save your profile, go back to the challenge signup window and confirm that you've done it. The challenge site then queries your username's profile, and if it finds the number in your profile, you're authenticated.

[gstark]

Trent,

That sounds like a rather elegant way of doing this.

With PHPBB, those fields you mention are already used, but it would be a no-brainer for me to add a new field for this specific purpose.

The more difficult part would be to make the changes to the user profile screen, but I doubt that's all that tough to implement. Interesting thought though ...

What I'm thinking though (and I think Scott's thoughts are along these lines too) is that we work out a way to share the user database. I could send him the database, but that creates potential issues of privacy and currency.

Scott's suggested that we only concern ourselves with members who have more than 10 postings if we go that way, and that's a good idea, but my favourite idea atm is to just provide a simple login script here that Scott can run remotely from within his login script.

The script at this end would simply accept the login ID and password from Scott (along with a token or two identifying and validating that the query was coming from his site) and return either a pass or fail message, which Scott could then deal with within his code.

As well, it would be nice to add a hyperlink to Scott's site here, and then pass to Scott's site the appropriate tokens to auomatically authenticate the user there.

[MHD]

the only problem that I can see with that is that user information will not be accesable by postnuke... As in all the ownerships and permissions will not work...

The only way I can see that the script could work is as an extra step in the signup procedure (on signup users have to enter thier d70user password to create a challenge login)


Perhaps this as an idea:
Create a PHP script on http://www.d70users.net that when a phpBB2 client enters in thier uname and password as a way of acknowledging that thier information will be sent to challenge.potofgrass.com it sends their details to the challenge database

That way when some one signs up for http://www.d70users.net they have the choice to signup for the challenges....