Log In Linking - MIVA 4.24 to Corporate Intranet

[Rick Jennett]

Howdy -

I have a corporat client with an INTRAnet that they want their employees to be able to log on to the ITRAnet and then not have to log onto the MIVA store again.

Is there a way to program that with cooperation from the corporate IT department to accomlish this??

What is available as a module or who would be interested in programming this type of situation if it is at all possible in the first place.

This is a HIGH PRIORITY of the corporation and I would be most interested in any prompts ideas or thoughts.

Thanks

[dotCOM_host]

Do you mean you want ANYONE on the local intranet to have login access to MM admin without the username/password prompt? Seems like a major security issue, for one, but also a potential for disaster, if any and all employees are given full access without as much as a login prompt... That, to me, is begging for a major disaster. There are probably ways to remove the passwords from the system, or even use a special URL (could a simplified with an .htaccess redirect) to pass the username/password to the system via URL, but, none of these options are what I'd consider safe or advisable.

[Rick Jennett]

Thanks Remik -

I agree with the security issue...

You say MM Admin... What I am speaking of is ...
the way for a user to log-in to the Corporate INTRAnet and when they click onto the MIVA Store link on their INTRAnet they would be already "logged on" to the store with the customer info already filled in based on their last order.

I am definitely not sure how it could be coded to allow a "new user" to be created in the store. The IT folks seem to think it can be done but I personally have no dea how.

The IT department at my corporate client is looking to have a conference call to discuss this and I am looking for a "knowelgeable"
(which by the way - MIVA speaks pretty highly of your knowledge)
person to determine if this could be done in some way.

Please keep in mid that I am a selftrained MIVA user and that I do not know a lot about your IT world.

Thanks

R ;-}

[dotCOM_host]

the way for a user to log-in to the Corporate INTRAnet and when they click onto the MIVA Store link on their INTRAnet they would be already "logged on" to the store with the customer info already filled in based on their last order.
Hmmm, that sounds like a completely different issue, then. There are modules which allow you to "remain logged in" after completing an order. I bet you can extend the cookie timeout to something long, let's say 3-4 days (to take into account long weekends and holidays) so that when an employee goes back to the online store, they are still logged in with the last customer info. Does this sound more like what you were asking for? Reading your original ticket I was under the impression you needed the ability to be logged in to the store (admin?) without providing login credentials, but now it sounds like that's not exactly what you were looking for...

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Either that, or if the intranet already assigns each user an name/passord, simply make sure that is the name/password in Merchant...then, the link in the intranet could be coded as:

[ a href="https://www.storedomain.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Customer_Login=%username%&Customer_Password=%userpassword%"]

where
%username&
%userpassword%

are the variables from the intranet. (note, the https...highly recommended)