We are pleased to announce the release of a new authentication API for eve communities. This API allows eve sites to authenticate member logins against their eve membership database from other scripts.

The API documentation is available here:

http://www.infopop.com/docs/eve/

Because eve encrypts user passwords, this API provides a mechamism for you to tie other scripts into your eve membership system. The documentation includes sample Perl and PHP code.

Note that the API only provides for login authentication.

Awesome news! I wrote up a quick script to test it and I wanted to point out one thing.

The API docs state that login_password can be either plain text or MD5. More specifically, it must be either plain text or eve's MD5 hash (which is not simply an MD5 of the password).

Peter and Brian give a good example of how to generate the eve MD5 hash here:
http://community.infopop.net/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=729094322&f=1853060105&m=3013076317

Just an FYI that the simple authentication API is changing with the rollout of Groupee. This change will happen in eve version 1.0.4, which will be available within the next couple of weeks.

As of version 1.0.4, the old API will NO LONGER WORK. You will need to use the new API, which will be published with the release of 1.0.4. We have removed the old API from our documentation page in the meantime.

A quick note in addition ...

The new API will not require [or accept] a username and password. It will work by 'piggybacking' your eve login. A person will need to be logged into eve in order to be authenticated through the new API. From there the API can verify a user's status through an exchange of security keys.

The new API will work seamlessly with Groupee.

Besides the few examples that are given here and evedev.com does anyone have a small sample app that shows this really at work? I've tried using the sample code in the API documentation and its not working. The PHP session info is giving me problems. I posted my code over on evedev.com and will gladly post my sample app once its done and working.

Can you please add the perl example back into the auth API docs?

Hello All

In fact we have a small PHP script you can paste in any PHP page to run this.

It's in the very final stages of QA and I'll attach it here soon for you to try out.

Great!
Do you have an exmaple for PERL?

Maybe I will be able to include the perl script inside your PHP script...

<?php virtual ("../path/to/script.cgi"); ?>

Hows that QA testing going?

Its coming along nicely. I wrote the script and we are just going through some final test passes on it.

It should be incredibly simple to use, Michael will give all the details when its ready.

You see the API in action here and download a kit for adding it to a web site.

I want my Eve members to have access/login to other parts of my site (most of the site) so I was wondering if this Simple Autentication API would work for me, but when logged in/authenticated I want my users to also have certain permissions on the site like review article, rate articles, etc... If this would work, I have no idea how to integrate to work with the CMS program. I was trying to do this in the login form:

<form method="GET" name="login" action="http://domain.com/eve/authenticate" _Template="index" />

but I don't see where I would put or where I would call the php code... maybe I need to open a support ticket for this. Thanks

The Eve Simple Authentication API contains its own login form (the Eve one) and does not use your applications login form.

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You see the API in action here and download a kit for adding it to a web site.

The link isn't working. Where can I see the API in action?