I have to say, I have been so frustrated by this that it's to the point I'm near to giving up.
I am trying to simply pass the login boxes from the coppermine gallery to my index page. I have read all over the forums (The search feature on these forums is horrible, so hard to find exactly what you're looking for, so I appologize if there was a correct answer, I couldn't find it.), and as I just said, I couldn't find the answer I am looking for... simply people telling those who ask about this that they have to be in the coppermine root directory. Why?
Is there any way someone could make a bridge that is just for websites? Not for a BBS, not for a content management system, but a simple way to add some code / script to your main site and have it show you a nice, working login box that can actually remember if you're logged in or not?
Currently, it seems the only way I can go about this is to
1) Install PHPbb, bridge it, mess with the redirects, and then run into numerous problems with logging in, such as it not working 3/4 of the time.
2) Copy the login.php code into my main page, but then it will not update to show you as logged in...
So, basicly, what I am looking for would do the following exactly:
Allow you to log in to coppermine from directories other than coppermines root
Allow you to retrieve variables or constants from coppermine such as user_name...etc to display outside of coppermine (For example, Welcome back {$user_name} ...
Nothing more, nothing less, it seems as if this shouldn't be such a hard thing to do for someone with some basic programming skills, which I entirely lack.
If someone knows of this being done already, as I said, can't find it ANYWHERE, and I have spent 3 days looking now, PLEASE email me or leave a reply here with the details so I can get it... thank you!
(P.s. There is something simular for PHPBB to allow you to pull the login box, user status box, search box and more out of PHPBB directory and use them anywhere on your site... seems like this should have been done for coppermine long ago...)