Best way to integrate user sessions into other pages on my site?

darrendriven

I'm new to Flarum and so far I am absolutely loving it!

I have some custom-coded PHP pages (outside of the forum) on my site and I would like to integrate the user session into those existing pages. What is the best way to do this?

I did install the FoF/pages extension and I have that working for static pages, however I don't think that I can put custom PHP into those... or can I?

clarkwinkelmann

I don't think we have any guide for this, you will have to tinker with it.

The best way to integrate would be to rewrite your custom pages using the Flarum API, integrating them with the single page application. That way you can reuse all the templates and logic from Flarum.

If you only want to share the header but don't need to access the user session server side you might be able to get something to work entirely from JavaScript if you don't have cross domain restrictions, but that would still require some custom code.

darrendriven

Thank you. I'll bang my head against the keyboard until it works correctly and share my method. 🙂

Circa

Hey, assuming you are the same darrendriven who posted on my forum about a similar question, I used this in combination with the FoF Pages extension. I had to compromise a little on some things but it lets you make very basic pages with custom CSS and HTML so you can pretty much get it to how you want for static stuff.

FoF Pages for the home page (which you can set in the Basics menu in Admin, and Clark's pages generator for everything else.

darrendriven

Circa Thanks for getting back to me! That's the solution that I thought that you might have used, but I wanted to make sure.