Posted by Jon Slaughter on 06/10/07 21:23

"Samir Chouaieb" <chouaieb@nospam.arcor.de> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I am trying to find a solution to a login mechanism for different domains
> on different servers with PHP5.
>
> I have one main domain with the user data and several other domains that
> need a login to show data.
>
> I want the user to login only once when he visits any of my domains.
>
> The first idea is had is to use the same session for all domains. Is this
> possible?
>
> Any help or hint is appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Best regards
> Samir


Why not just a central server that handles the the cookies? That way they
are stored w.r.t to the centeral server but the other servers can get the
information(through a request to the centeral server).

e.g., when the user wants to be "remembered" they would be temporarily
redirected to your centeral server where the cookie processing will take
place and it will probably need to contain more information such as which
server the request came from(or since you don't seem to care it would just
save it as normal).

Then any time cookie retrival needs to happen the opposite thing will
happen.

I think the only issue here is if multiple servers are serving to the same
users then there would need some way to synchronize but I thnk this isn't
that big of a problem.

If you go the central route then you could keep everything on that central
server and really just dish out stuff over the different domains. You just
need to write an interface for what you want.

Jon

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