[LRUG] Lrug registration pages now online

[wendy]

Hi there,

The LRUG registration pages are now online. Please register at the 
following link, so we can determine wether to hold the event at Skills 
Matter or if Skills Matter should hire the Sessions House.

http://skillsmatter.com/event/ruby-on-rails/lrug-meeting-ruby-as-multimedia-glue-genomes-on-rails

Wendy

Andrew Stewart wrote:
> Hello El Rug,
>
> Oh, the horror.
>
> I've built a lovely Ruby-based webapp for a client to replace a 
> section of their Mambo website.  My webapp will be hosted on a 
> subdomain of the domain where the Mambo site lives.
>
> Only members of the client's organisation may use my webapp.  Not 
> unreasonably, but rather irritatingly for me, the client has decreed 
> that once somebody has logged into the main Mambo site, they shouldn't 
> have to log in again to use my webapp.
>
> I'm thinking the only way to do this is to:
>
> 1.  Grab the cookie which (I assume) Mambo sets when you log in.
> 2.  Extract the user's id from it.
>
> Once I've got the user's id, everything's simple because the two apps 
> share the same database.
>
> However since I've never touched Mambo or PHP before, I don't know 
> where to start looking for information on steps 1 and 2 above.
>
> Can anybody help?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
> Andy Stewart
>
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