Comments on: Using Live ID to authenticate to WordPress

By: Daniele Muscetta

Daniele Muscetta — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:24:58 +0000

and about the include, it should not be needed: the function is defined in WPLiveAuth.php indeed, which is the main plugin file – since the auth.php already includes wp-blog-header.php then you should be fine as the main WP code will have the plugin loaded anyway and will be able to find the function… (if the plugin is activated).

include '../../../wp-blog-header.php';
(you might want to look if the /wp/ subdirectory mentioned above is also the issue here… ??)

By: Daniele Muscetta

Daniele Muscetta — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:49:13 +0000

It looks like you are running your blog in a subdirectory of the main site, so the address:
http://www.pas.net/wp-content/plugins/liveauth/auth.php

should actually be:

http://www.pas.net/wp/wp-content/plugins/liveauth/auth.php

It will probably very easy to modify those links in the code to suit your situation… even if I already use links that are relative to get_option('siteurl')., so they should already point to the right place…

By: Thomas Conté

Thomas Conté — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:46:09 +0000

Now I have added the include, but I have a new problem:

The association link displayed by auth.php looks wrong (it ends with a 404):

http://www.pas.net/wp-admin/admin.php?page=liveauth

Furthermore, I have no options page for LiveID in the WP options menu.

I am running WP 2.5.1.

Thanks!
Thomas.

By: Thomas Conté

Thomas Conté — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:31:52 +0000

Hey Daniele,
I'm slowly trying to install your plugin on my blog. (dlowly because my hosting provider needed to compile quite a few missing PHP modules)
Now it looks I have all the modules required, but I get the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function getWPUserIdfromLiveID() in F:\users\pas.net\httpdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\liveauth\auth.php on line 41

Lokking at auth.php, it looks like it may be missing an include for WPLiveAuth.php where this function is defined?

Thanks,
Thomas.

By: Daniele Muscetta

Daniele Muscetta — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:02:19 +0000

Gershu: you might want to take a look at the new page http://www.muscetta.com/live-id-wordpress-plugin/ where you can download version 0.3 of the plugin, which now includes a minimal user interface to simplyfy setting the plugin up.

By: Daniele Muscetta

Daniele Muscetta — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:27:56 +0000

Gershu: thank you. I definitely need to make it more polished and cleaner…

By: Gershu

Gershu — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:18:43 +0000

Thank you very much for your plugin. I will test it right away. And let me encourage you to keep working on it with future updates, feautres and a clenaer code

By: Daniele Muscetta

Daniele Muscetta — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:17:26 +0000

Garry, I sent you a private mail too.
In short, I am not aware of API that let you access your MAIL on Windows Live Mail at this point in time.
There are API for authentication, authorization, accessing your contact lists, and a variety of other things that you can find on http://dev.live.com/

By: Gary Marbach

Gary Marbach — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:15:20 +0000

You seem like you really know what you're doing with Windows Live. I have a need to access hotmail emails from my website (via a program… not manually). Do you think it is possible? If so, can you help with the question of "how"?

Thanks.