Using Zend Auth with external authentication mechanism - zend-framework

Question

I have a Drupal site and a Zend application. The main thing is the Drupal site, where the users are stored & everything.
I want my users to be automatically logged in to the Zend app when they log in on Drupal. The problem is that Drupal changes the session cookie to SESS* where * is some random (EDIT: not random, but based on protocol and domain) string.
Is there any way I can tell Zend to use this cookie as a session identifier and to log the user automatically?

Answer 1

You have to write your own authentication adapter:
class YourApp_Auth_Adapter_DrupalBridge implements Zend_Auth_Adapter_Interface
{
/**
* #return Zend_Auth_Result
*/
public function authenticate()
{
// Check if the Drupal session is set by reading the cookie.
// ...
// Read the current user's login into $username.
// ...
// Create the authentication result object.
// Failure
if (null === $username) {
return new Zend_Auth_Result(Zend_Auth_Result::FAILURE_IDENTITY_NOT_FOUND, null);
}
// Success
return new Zend_Auth_Result(Zend_Auth_Result::SUCCESS, $username);
}
}
Then process your authentication:
$adapter = new YourApp_Auth_Adapter_DrupalBridge();
$result = Zend_Auth::getInstance()->authenticate($adapter);
if ($result->isValid()) {
// User is logged in
}