Using flarum logins on my webapp

Navos

Hello community !

I have experience in installing / using flarum in my past projects

Now for my new project, i have a unique scenario,

My webapp (asp.net app) is hosted at copycoding.com
Flarum will be installed at copycoding.com/forum
I want to make use of the flarum login system in my webapp
For example when my webapp user clicks on signup i want to open the flarum signup dialog and once the signup is complete the user has to be redirected to the same webapp page

Is this doable ? Just wanted to avoid the overhead of building the login system from scratch

clarkwinkelmann

It must be doable. Though so far I believe only the opposite has been done - using an existing website login system with Flarum. See the Wordpress SSO and Laravel Passport login extensions.

How did you expect to sync the login ?

Flarum isn't an oauth server out of the box but I think it shouldn't be too complicated to make it work as one.

Or if both apps have access to the same database / session storage you could just store the cookies in a way both apps can access and check Flarum sessions validity from you ASP.NET app.

EDIT: as it's not a part of core you will probably need to create a Flarum extension to do something like my oauth suggestion. You can check the developer resources under the dev tag and let us know if you have any issue !

Oh, and almost forgot, welcome to the community ?

Navos

Thanks very much for the reply Clark!

Yes, both apps have access to the same database / session cookie. So, my ASP.NET app is able to read the flarum cookie (as both are in the same domain) and able to get the user id from the mysql tables ?, (The challenge here is getting the login dialog fired from my webapp)

Yeah, agreed. I see threads where there are plugins to do the reverse. Ill do some research and if i find anything worthwhile ill share it here.

Meanwhile, do we have any other members from the community who have any insights