using wp login authentication for external php pages

  • Hi There

    I am having a well working copy of wordpress website.
    say https://www.abc.com/wp/ – wordpress path

    I do have an external php application
    say https://www.abc.com/apps/ – php application path

    I wanted to know how to authenticate wordpress registered users to view the https://www.abc.com/apps page and that too it will display specific content of that user upon query using the username.

    For example :
    if user1 logins in wordpress from https://www.abc.com/wp he will be able to view https://www.abc.com/apps/
    contents of user1 is displayed
    or
    if user2 logins in wordpress from https://www.abc.com/wp he will be able to view https://www.abc.com/apps/
    contents of user2 is displayed

    I have a mysql query already working fine in https://www.abc.com/apps like
    “select * from tablename where username=$wp_username and password=$wp_password”

    do i need to reauthenticate again with the username and password in apps file or is there any possibilities to use the wp session to display particular user content.

    the purpose is i dont want 2 login forms for wordpress and apps as all the users are same in wordpress and apps

    Kindly advice how to use wp login session to hook.

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