Do you have an URL that we can look at to see this in action? I would love to do something like this myself!
Thank you, Linux > Hello Everyone, > > I am writing in response to someone that asked how we seamlessly > integrated squirrelmail and qmailadmin using iframes and so a user > doesn't have to login to each application after initially logging in. > > This was a pretty simple task using PHP. > > Instruction: > > First we created our administrative shell. This contained a header and > a footer in two separate PHP files. > > Next we created our own login.php file that asked for a username and > password. This script included the header.php and the footer.php > > Once a person submits the login form contained in the login.php page, we > use PHP pop functions to authenticate them on our mail servers. If > there is a successful authentication, we break the email address apart > into 3 variables. The variables are username, domainname, and password. > > > These variable are then added into a session and the users gets > redirected to our squirrmail.php login script. > > Our squirmail.php script includes our header.php script, the line for > the Iframe that points to the squirmail login script and our footer.php > script. > > Our header.php script keeps the session running. At the top of the page > in the header script we have a navigation bar with 2 icons in it. The > icons point to our squirmail.php and our qmailadmin.php scripts. > > Our qmailadmin.php script is setup exactly like out squirrelmail.php > script. It contains the header that keeps the seesion information and a > line that includes the Iframe that points to the qmailadmin login script > and our footer.php script. > > The two icons in the header that allow you to switch between the two > different application have dtnamic links that get built by the > information stored in the session. So basically the username and > password get passed through the links when they are clicked. The links > are built and populated via the session variables. > > This all works like a charm. > > I realize I could have been a little clearer explaining this, but I > figure most of you with programming experience should be able to figure > it out. > > I hope this helps. > > Justin C. > > >
