How do I call the authenticate function

[letmein]

in the misc.php, there is an authenticate function for the login action. How do I call that function?

[Chuck S]

In the top of our scripts it calls

authenticate();

[letmein]

I though soo too, but when I try to run this command from php:
$user="test";
$pass="test";
authenticate ($user,$pass);

I got nothing when i request the value of the uid after run the above command. The reason i do this because i want to forward the username and password in the url and have a script parse the encrypted user/pass in the url and authenticate the user automatically.

[Chuck S]

Right but then have you required our pp-inc.php global file

[letmein]

I did have require pp-inc.php and it still does not work. I search for the authenticate function in pp-inc.php and nothing show up.

[Chuck S]

If you have the require and authenticate in a file it will look for the users cookie to see if they are logged in. If nothing happens then your user is not logged in. Otherwise you need to create some sort of login script