By rola_51 on

I have a non-Drupal application in which users are already logged in properly, and I want to redirect them on occasions to their Drupal account, without asking them to log-in again. Their Name and Pass fields in the Drupal users table match the ones on the non-Drupal application. Can anyone suggest a way to do this? Thanks!

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alihammad commented

There is a drupal api function called user_authenticate($name,$pass). It takes a userid / password and verifies if the database contains a user id and password, on successful match it returns the $user class. You should be able to use this function fairly easily. Look here for details http://api.drupal.org/api/function/user_authenticate/5.

Ali Hammad Raza
WordsValley

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rola_51 commented

Found more on this subject at http://drupal.org/node/151515- Thanks.

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SuNcO commented

I'm having an issue with this. I use Drupal 6 and when use user_authenticate function it returns me the correct answer (uid, etc..) but it does not create the cookies. So, when i go to drupal site, the login is lost

http://localhost/drupal6/some.php and http://localhost/drupal6