Check Joomla Login From Wordpress Blog

Question

Hi

We have a Joomla 1.5 site with a blog in a subfolder /blog/

We would like to have a login status at the top of each page. For consistency of navigation we want to show the joomla login status at the top of the wordpress blog.

eg

Login | Register | Help

or

You are loged in as stephen baugh | Help

The problem is that although the scipt blow correctly returns the login status, if I add it to a wordpress template the status is correctly returned and drawn to the screen, but then the page stops drawing. Anyone have any ideas how I stop the Joomla scripts making the Wordpress script stop.

Thanks Stephen

    <?php

define( '_JEXEC', 1 );
define('JPATH_BASE', '/Library/WebServer/testqueensberrycom');
define( 'DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php' );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php' );

$mainframe =& JFactory::getApplication('site');
$mainframe->initialise();
//$mainframe->triggerEvent('onAfterInitialise');
//$mainframe->route();
//$mainframe->authorize('');

$user =& JFactory::getUser();

     if (($user->id) > 0)
     {
     return 'You are signed in as: <a href="/editprofile/user.html">' . $user->username . '</a> | <a href="/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=225">Help</a> | <a href="/index.php?option=com_user&task=logout&return=cGFydG5lci9wcm9jZXNzL3BhcnRuZXIuaHRtbA==">Sign out</a>';
     } else {
     return '<a href="/index.php?option=com_user&view=login">Login</a> | Join | <a href="/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=225">Help</a>';
     }


?>

Answer 1

Hmm, there are a lot of possibilities. Joomla has a lot of features like register globals emulation etc (many depend on if you're using legacy mode...) - which could easily clash with other scripts. It also makes lots of defines and fills a lot of global spots, which could also possibly clash with other scripts.

Things I could think of to try:

• Add $mainframe->close();
• Try setting error_reporting(E_ALL); after the Joomla code has run to see what Wordpress is choking on

Answer 2

Hey, did you find the answer to this issue? I'm now struggling with this same problem and I would really appreciate your experiences on this issue.