Pre Sales Question; Single Sign On

[3c]

First let me say that from everything I've read so far, XF is the forum software I want to have. IF I can get it setup to work the way I need it to.

Is there anyway to make XF authenticate off of another software's subscriber list? I am currently running Geodesic software and I need to keep it setup as the "frontend" where the users register/login, and then once they do, they can also access the XF forum.

Any info on this would be greatly appreciated!

 

[3c]

Can anyone tell me the fields that XF needs to do authentications? All I want to do is have my Geo tell the XF database when someone registers/logs in/logs out. Any links in XF that would do that I can redirect to my Geo links and turn off the XF side of it. But not knowing the XF database fields, etc, I don't know where to start.

I've read several places around here where people are saying how easy the XF authentication part is, so there has got to be a way to make this work...

 

[Deepmartini]

Single sign on for Zendesk would be great to have.

 

[3c]

Can anyone tell me the fields that XF needs to do authentications?

anyone...?

 

[Paul B]

Without the software to work with, knowing which tables and fields are associated with authentication is worthless.

How are you going to test it without a database?

 

[Robbo]

xf_authenticate I think it is called, it stores a class name to call to do everything etc.

 

[3c]

How are you going to test it without a database?

I figure if I manage to get to the testing part, I'll have to gamble on success and buy the software (which I really don't need to do if I can't)...Kind of hate to buy it and then end up having to go with vb anyway....unfortunately, I'm not a coder, I'm more of a tweaker wannabe...LOL..

someone around here had a link to a different bridge that was off site....and since they were giving it away, I downloaded a copy so maybe I could use it to get an idea of what's involved in one. I don't think what I need would be so complicated as I don't want to do any of the authentication in XF. I just need something to tell it add x/x is here/x is leaving, which may be a bit over simplistic, but like I said, I'm no coder....

but, I'm stubborn enough I haven't given up yet... although, having so many tabs of bridge php files and php tutorials all open at the same time is enough to give someone a headache...LOL...

thanks Robbo...

 

[surfsup]

anyone get Zendesk SSO working!?