[wp-hackers] Files associated with table *_users

[Marcos Sader | marcosmedia]

On 8/18/07, Curt Woodard <clwoodard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Matt, Alex, thanks for the swift replies.
>
> Matt: I don't use linux, I'm on Windows... I suppose I could install
> grep for Win32 if it exists...


I'm sure your IDE, text editor or even dreamweaver! have a search tool you
can use instead of grep.

Alex: I was thinking that as well, I'd just have to figure out how to
> write the plugin and then how to interface everything with SMF. I'd
> need to be able to replace everything dealing with WP logins with SMF
> SSI calls. Do you know of any information available to allow me to
> write a plugin that replaces all of this? I've already looked at the
> two databases and am in the process of mapping what fields in WP would
> match with those in SMF and could probably, very easily, write a
> wrapper that places the SMF user data in the format that
> wp_get_current_user uses... I'll have to see what I can do.


Once i had to bridge five different systems, 3 php, one jsp and one asp, all
using the user data stored on a central database which was updated and
maintained through a sixth system, that i have no access to, all i had was a
papper with the API results structure.

So, since the customer wanted to still use the user system he Had, and was
reluctant about modifying wordpress or using a plugin, i just made a script
that would periodically (cron) update the wordpress database using the
central server data, it was quite easy, took me a few hours and none of the
systems got affected ;)

One drawback, user data changed in the wordpress panel will not be reflected
in the central database.

PS are there archives for this list?


Yup http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/

Thanks again for the swift replies.
> -Curt
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:58:44 -0400
> From: "Curt Woodard" <clwoodard at gmail.com>
> Subject: [wp-hackers] Files associated with table *_users
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> Was curious as to exactly which files are affected by and access the
> *_users table in WordPress 2.0.
>
> Why?
>
> I'm tired of dealing with multiple user tables for different things
> and want to use SMF's user table for WordPress just as I have for
> MediaWiki.
>
> I want to disable anything that uses the WordPress tables for user
> information and instead use SMF's.
>
> Any information would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> -Excalibur
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:05:26 -0700
> From: Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com>
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Files associated with table *_users
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> Curt Woodard wrote:
> > Was curious as to exactly which files are affected by and access the
> > *_users table in WordPress 2.0.
>
> Grep through the code for $wpdb->users and $wpdb->usermeta and you'll
> see all the places we query those tables.
>
> --
> Matt Mullenweg
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:17:15 +0200
> From: Alex G?nsche <ag.ml2007 at zirona.com>
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Files associated with table *_users
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
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> On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 13:58 -0400, Curt Woodard wrote:
> > I want to disable anything that uses the WordPress tables for user
> > information and instead use SMF's.
>
> A better solution for this would be writing a plugin which handles the
> authentication against your other system. This will make upgrading much
> easier. (Don't forget to write a replacement for the pluggable function
> wp_get_current_user().)
>
> Best regards,
> Alex
>
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