Advice sought for integrating PHP app into WP site

  • I have a WordPress site that provides communication between golfers in my club and the managers of various leagues at the club. One of our members has developed another site that allows our members to sign up for golf events by checking boxes on a calendar. Fortunately, he developed this application using PHP and MySQL. I have a menu item that links to his website, but a member signed in on my site who clicks on that link must then sign in to his site. I’d like to fix that, and he has volunteered to give me zip files of his PHP code and database to integrate into my site.

    I am willing to do the coding involved, but I’d like advice on how best to proceed. How can I best add his PHP pages to my site so that a user’s WP login credentials would be passed to those pages, both for security and for identification of the user who is signing up for an event?

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  • No one here can tell you much because a lot of it depends on the non-Wordpress code and very specific questions once you find out how the other system works. What you want is called Single Sign On – SSO – and you do that with cookies or more securely with a standard like oAuth. It’s best to start with a Google search for WordPress and SSO and what ever system the other PHP site uses for login and authentication.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by Mark Ratledge.
    Thread Starter DuaneBender

    (@duanebender)

    Okay, I’ll read up on OAuth and SAML, and I’ve also emailed my friend for his thoughts. Thanks, Mark.

    Duane Bender

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