This is referring to original post with same topic (Moodle Accept Login from external site) by other user back in 2013, also a similar one (Logging into Moodle via external site) in 2014. However, I cannot add comment nor reply to these posts, and my Moodle version is different (3.3.2), that is why I am starting a new thread. Hopefully someone can give me a hand.
Looks like it is quite a common task when we already have existing site and adding Moodle at later stage for its LMS functions. Moodle is in a folder one level lower then web root, so there is no cross-domain problem.
The post in 2013 saying he managed to solve this by copying the cookies from header using PECL, however tried PECL but not working on my server, therefore I Googled the CURL way. Owing to my poor PHP knowledge, it failed too. If I use a HTML FORM posting to Moodle's login.php, then it works. (so I am sure the URL, username etc are correct)
If you have Moodle.org's account, can also read my question. (https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=361390)
<?php
$url = 'http://example.com/learning-center/login/index.php';
$fields = array(
'username' => urlencode($_POST['myUsername']),
'password' => urlencode($_POST['myPassword']));
//url-ify the data for the POST
foreach($fields as $key=>$value) { $fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&'; }
rtrim($fields_string, '&');
//open connection
$ch = curl_init();
//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, count($fields));
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);
//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);
//return the transfer as a string
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
//enable headers
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
//get only headers
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);
//close connection
curl_close($ch);
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
$headers=array();
$data=explode("\n",$result);
$headers['status']=$data[0];
array_shift($data);
foreach($data as $part){
$middle=explode(":",$part);
$headers[trim($middle[0])] = trim($middle[1]);
}
foreach ($data->cookies as $name => $value) {
setcookie($name, $value, $data->expires, $data->path, 'example.com');
}
?>
And the output was
This page should automatically redirect. If nothing is happening please use the continue link below.
http://example.com/learning-center/login/index.php
Array
(
[status] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[Date] => Wed, 15 Nov 2017 03
[Server] => Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) PHP/5.6.31
[X-Powered-By] => PHP/5.6.31
[Set-Cookie] => MoodleSession=bv77hhnn8f0vmbarkc9vujro25; path=/learning-center/
[Expires] =>
[Cache-Control] => private, pre-check=0, post-check=0, max-age=0, no-transform
[Pragma] => no-cache
[Content-Language] => en
[Content-Script-Type] => text/javascript
[Content-Style-Type] => text/css
[X-UA-Compatible] => IE=edge
[Accept-Ranges] => none
[X-Frame-Options] => sameorigin
[Content-Type] => text/html; charset=utf-8
[] =>
)
It is incomplete, so do not copy this code and use it in production. From the header it looks like it returns a MoodleSession cookie, however, if I use the browser's Developer tool to manually add that then load a Moodle page, Moodle still asks me to log. If I manually log in Moodle, the cookie it sets is similar.
Does anyone know how?
