[wp-hackers] Wordpress User Authentication

[Matt Mullenweg]

Brian Groce wrote:

> Have any of you used the Wordpress user authentication either outside of 
> Wordpress and/or on other Wordpress blogs on the same server?
> 
> What I'm wanting to do is create a single-signon for both of these 
> scenarios...one table of users, not multiple tables for each area.  
> Separate tables for the rest of the data is fine.
> 
> This is somewhat similar to "multiple blogs", but with the addition of 
> being able to protect other non-blog areas (for example a calendar).
> 
> Anyway, just throwing this out there to see if anyone else is doing this 
> sort of thing before I go and try to hack away at it.

It's really not complicated at all. Just include the WP files, check out 
auth.php, and put a user level check in your code just to be safe.

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