Check wp-postpass_* auth cookie

  • Hi there!

    I have a WP site with a couple of password protected pages. After a user has entered the corrrect password WP creates a cookie called wp-postpass_*. I want to check wether or not the user logged in to a specific page correctly within my own PHP script. I found the wp_authenticate_cookie() function but I still don’t understand how to use this function within my own script to check for different password protected pages… ??

    Help would be very much appreciated!

    THX a lot!

    Tom

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  • Thread Starter Tom7320

    (@tom7320)

    Hi!

    Sorry, but I’d like to push this issue since unfortunately I don’t have a solution yet…

    THX!!!

    The idea will be 

    if(!empty($post->post_password) &&
   $_COOKIE['wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH] != $post->post_password))
{
   .... password protected, blocks user ....
}
elseif (isset($_COOKIE['wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH])
 && $_COOKIE['wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH] == $post->post_password){
    .... password matches, allow access ....
}

    Hello, I’m wondering if there was ever any resolution on this?

    I have a similar situation that was working fine pre WP 3.4.2. This following no longer seems to work.

    $urlSplits = explode('/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
  if (isset( $_COOKIE['wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH]) && $urlSplits[3] == 'logout') {
    $pastdate = mktime(0,0,0,1,1,1970);
    setcookie('wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH, '', $pastdate, COOKIEPATH );
    header('Location: https://www.myurl.com/my-section/password-protected');
  } 

<?
$sql = "SELECT post_password FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = '173'";
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die('Content was not loaded. Please refresh your page.');
while($post = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {$pagePass = $post['post_password'];}
?>

<? if (isset( $_COOKIE['wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH] ) && $pagePass == $_COOKIE['wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH]) { ?>
  <a href="<? echo site_url('/my-section/password-protected/logout'); ?>" class="open">Member Logout</a>
<? } else { ?>

  <a href="<? echo site_url('/my-section/password-protected/'); ?>" class="close">Member Area</a>
<? } ?>
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