Web Wiz Forums Existing Membership API

• Must be written in ASP
• Must be running on the same website
• Your website must support ASP Sessions
  
  

How to Setup The Existing Membership API

1. Open your own ASP file on your website that deals with logging in your members.
   
   
2. You will need to initialise in your ASP code three ASP Sessions variables that are used to pass login information to Web Wiz Forums. These session variables are shown below.
   
   

   	'Initialise Session Variables Session("USER") = Member_Username Session("PASSWORD") = Member_Password Session("EMAIL") = Member_Email

    
   
3. The ASP Session Variables need to contain the following:-
   
   
• Session("USER") - This needs to hold the member's name as it will be shown in Web Wiz Forums
• Session("PASSWORD") - This is the member's password, it must be in plain text
• Session("EMAIL") - This is the member's email address
   
4. Once these Session Variables are setup in your own login code you next need to open in notepad the forum file functions/functions_member_API.asp.
   
   
5. Inside this file you will find the variable blnMemberAPI which needs to be set to True as shown below.
   
   

   	'Enable Member API '------------------------ Const blnMemberAPI = True

   
   
6. That's it the Existing Member API is now setup and as long as everything is setup correctly you will find that if you login through your own login system when you browse to your forum you will also be logged in there also.
   
   
7. You will find a number of other additional options within the functions/functions_member_API.asp file which will allow you to integrate Web Wiz Forums more tightly with your own login, logout, and registration pages. There are notes within the file on what each of these options does.
   
   

Notes on The Existing Member API

How the Member API Works
The session variables that you set in your own login page are passed to Web Wiz Forums login API when the member enters the forum. If the member is not already in the Web Wiz Forums own database they are automatically entered if they are already in the database they are logged in with that members details, if their password or email address has changed since their last visit to the forum this will also be updated to keep the forum in sync with your own websites login system.

Do NOT try and import members or add them manually, you MUST let the users be auto added to your forum by the Web Wiz Forums software.

Admin Control Panel - IMPORTANT
The built in Web Wiz Forums Admin Account will remain and is not part of your own system. This account is used to login to the Web Wiz Forums Admin Control Panel by pointing your browser at the admin.asp page of your forum. Do NOT rename the built in admin account with the same name as your membership systems login name.

Security
The Member API relies on the security of your own login system, if your login system is not secure then nor will Web Wiz Forums.