Which event to listen to

yixuan

Hi All,
I'm a newcomer to the Flarum community and I really like it!
Recently I'm considering to migrate a forum from WordPress to Flarum, and one problem I notice is that WP and Flarum use different hashing algorithms for the password. I want to develop an extension that allows checking passwords generated by WP, and after reading the source code I find the User::setHasher() function that seems to directly meet my need.
Now I have already implemented my own hasher, and according to the extension development guideline, I should call the User::setHasher() function under some events provided by Flarum. So my question is, I have looked at the list of API events but could not find one that is directly related to this.
Any hints on which event to listen to for my situation? Thank you!

luceos

I think you could do it with a simple ServiceProvider and running:

\Flarum\Core\User::setHasher():

See: https://github.com/flarum/core/blob/master/src/Core/User.php#L720

Example of registering a service provider:

https://github.com/flagrow/upload/blob/master/bootstrap.php#L30

yixuan

Great! I'll take a look later. Thank you luceos !

yixuan

Hey @luceos, with your suggestion I have successfully implemented this extension (code). Please correct me if I did anything wrong.
Now although the current code works fine, I'm curious in one question. Since the Flarum core also calls User::setHasher() under the CoreServiceProvider, how can I make sure that the service provider I write would be evaluated after the core service provider? Also imagine that in some scenarios, two extensions both register a service provider that may be conflicting with each other, then what determines the order of their evaluations?
Thanks!

luceos

yixuan you can set the $defer property to true on your provider. And clashing providers can't be prevented, hopefully you will be able to identify this as the cause once there are two extensions replacing the hasher ? Risk of development and IoC sadly.

yixuan

I see. Thank you!

just-do-it

EladSarusi can you please help me to make right your example extention in flarum doc ?.

bg

elad.

Hey elad,
join the party i don' know how either, I'm struggling too haha
though what I know for sure is that it's not a good practice to revive posts like this

why don't you try and open a new one? ?
I'll most likely follow it too