Cometchat is hacking IPboard ?

[Janyour]

Hi,

i was wondering how cometchat is working with ipboard, how users data are pulled for example.

in the installation guide there are no plugin or installation to do on the IPB side !

 

[Marc Stridgen]

Hello,

You would need to speak to cometchat and ask them how they access the data. I would assume they are making a direct database connection, but this is only a guess of course. Sending them a message to ask the question would be your best bet.

[MADMAN32395]

It appears to connect into the database/login by the html scripts they have you install. But I'm not 100% sure as I did not purchase to see what connects where. I'm just going by what insaw on their site.

[prupdated]

It reads the member table from IPB. The reads are needed to authenticate, get avatars, and friends. As far as I can tell, it only writes to its own tables that it creates for the actual chat functions. 

[Janyour]

thanks you,

Yes they read directly from the IPB database, here's a part of the integration php file :

define('DB_SERVER',					$INFO['sql_host']						);
define('DB_PORT',					"3306"									);
define('DB_USERNAME',				$INFO['sql_user']						);
define('DB_PASSWORD',				$INFO['sql_pass']						);
define('DB_NAME',					$INFO['sql_database']					);
if(defined('USE_CCAUTH') && USE_CCAUTH == '0'){
	define('TABLE_PREFIX',			$INFO['sql_tbl_prefix']					);
	define('DB_USERTABLE',			"core_members"							);
	define('DB_USERTABLE_USERID',   "member_id"								);
	define('DB_USERTABLE_NAME',		"name"									);
	define('DB_AVATARTABLE',        " ");
	define('DB_AVATARFIELD',        " ".TABLE_PREFIX.DB_USERTABLE.".pp_main_photo");