Hi, If you want to link in to BASE 1.x pages from other pages on your site, I've finally found out a clean way to do it (with one tiny change to the source code). I had posted to one of the BASE mailing lists a while ago about this, but that was a half-baked solution.
DISCLAIMER: I give no assurances that this approach is in any way safe or secure. First you need a guest account which has absolutely the bare minimum privileges (important: deselect "read more user info") and a password which you are happy to make public (or I guess no password would also work). Then you can link in with links like this: http://your.base-server.org/index.phtml?i_login=GUEST&i_password=GUEST&l=data&m=experiment_list.phtml You should "url escape" (e.g. url_escape() in Perl CGI module) everything after the m= If you want the "Return" link to behave OK (without nesting frames) add url_escaped "&location=xxx" at the end - where xxx is the same location as you put after the m= To illustrate this, here's an example link to our base server: http://base.vectorbase.org/index.phtml?i_login=vbguest&i_password=readonly&m=experiment_edit.phtml%3fi_e%3d3%26i_tab%3d0%26location%3dexperiment_edit.phtml%3fi_e%3d3%26i_tab%3d0 However, you will find that if you repeatedly follow such a link to your base server it will fail every other time with a "session expired" error. Here's a small patch to the BASE code which seems to fix this (and doesn't seem to break anything else so far...). --- include/web/login.inc.php (revision 49) +++ include/web/login.inc.php (working copy) @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ BaseControl::verifyUserId(); // Has the user submitted username and password? - if(isset($i_login) && $i_login != "") + if(!$loggedIn && isset($i_login) && $i_login != "") { if($curSession->attemptLogin($i_login, $i_password, $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"])) meanwhile I continue to familiarise myself with BASE 2 :-) HTH Bob. -- Bob MacCallum | VectorBase Developer | Kafatos/Christophides Groups | Division of Cell and Molecular Biology | Imperial College London | Phone +442075941945 | Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ The BASE general discussion mailing list basedb-users@lists.sourceforge.net unsubscribe: send a mail with subject "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
