Joomla Bridge

[tim]

ok, I've searched and searched, then started over.
There is tons of talk about WHMCS and Joomla, mainly in reference to templates and look/feel.

Does anyone know how to combine the username/password database for Joomla & WHMCS?

It would be so nice if users could just login to joomla, and be already logged into WHMCS. Just my 2c.

Thanks
Tim

[davet]

Yes I agree. It would be nice if there was a component version for Joomla as well instead of just a bridge.

[Roger]

A Joomla component or module would be pretty cool. Maybe this thread should be moved to the Joomla site to generate some interest from their community...

[trine]

this could work (best) if you use WHMCS as your login, assuming you have adapted the session code in Mambo or Joomla. You should use 1 set of user/passwords only, otherwise you need to synch the databases.

[joemailey]

I'd also like this,
Preferable a bridge.

Not really a bridge.
Something that will sync WHMCS accounts with joomla.
So when you signup to WHMCS you can login to my forum also.

This would help for those who bridge
SMF forum
PHPBB forums to.

[Multipack]

A Joomla component or module would be pretty cool. Maybe this thread should be moved to the Joomla site to generate some interest from their community...

Absolutely !!!
But there has to be official addon made first.

[angelcosta]

such thing has been already done. check www.joomlancers.com
I think if we can gather money, we can hire someone to do it. then we can make it available somewhere for free (for the community)

[worsin]

I am more than willing to pay for this.

[angelcosta]

I am working on it

what features would you guys like to see?

[cubemedia]

that would be pretty cool

[jtrag]

Has this ever been completed? If so, could you please provide us with a link to the bridge? Thanks in advance!

[Shaun]

Has this ever been completed? If so, could you please provide us with a link to the bridge? Thanks in advance!

Im thinking about doing something now.
More of a module than a bridge. But i have to read the code more.
Its a matter of weather we insert details into the J! db.

But i am looking at making some modules that allow you to insert the WHMCS cart and items.

[Klangaroo]

this is EXTREMELY easy to do. just write a short function to make the following call to the WHMCS API while storing the user's joomla profile info in an array called $DetailArray:

	$url = "api.php"; # URL to WHMCS API file
	$username = "admin"; # Admin username goes here
	$password = "admin"; # Admin password goes here
	$postfields["username"] = $username;
	$postfields["password"] = md5($password);

	$postfields["action"] = "addclient"; 
	$postfields["firstname"] = $Detail_Array[firstname];
	$postfields["lastname"] = $Detail_Array[lastname];
	$postfields["companyname"] = $Detail_Array[business];
	$postfields["email"] = $Detail_Array[email];
	$postfields["address1"] = $Detail_Array[address];
	$postfields["address2"] = $Detail_Array[address2];
	$postfields["city"] = $Detail_Array[city];
	$postfields["state"] = $Detail_Array[state];
	$postfields["postcode"] = $Detail_Array[postcode];
	$postfields["country"] = "AU";
	$postfields["phonenumber"] = $Detail_Array[phone];
	$postfields["password2"] = $Detail_Array[password];

	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 100);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
	$data = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);

	$data = explode(";",$data);
	foreach ($data AS $temp) {
		$temp = explode("=",$temp);
		$results[$temp[0]] = $temp[1];
	}

	if ($results["result"]=="success") {
		# Result was OK!
		echo("Success, new client id is ". $results["clientid"]);
	} else {
		# An error occured
		echo "The following error occured: ".$results["message"];
	}

then just save the user's $clientID into a field in the joomla user table. You can then submit their username and password to the WHMCS login page using a link on your joomla homepage.

We did the same thing on our website, but we dont use Joomla. its the same deal though.

I've never actually used Joomla, but if it's writen in PHP with MySQL, then you should be able to use this code (mostly borrowed from the WHMCS API documentation) to do what you want to do.

[Shaun]

This is kinda th idea but most people want to user WHMCS as the master and then have the data goto into Joomla!.

Its possible using the plugin auth of Joomla! to make this module.

[jtrag]

Excellent! Thank you. I take it there are no pre-made modules/components for Joomla to do this yet?