Up and running - thanks for the help.
Thank you for an absolutely wonderful application. It's really been fun and challenging integrating into my website.
Richard

I may have it now by deleting the serendipity_config_local.inc.php file, I'll let you know.

I changed the DirectoryIndex path in the .htaccess file (when I delete this file I get an error that says it can't write to a templates_c file (has my local address instead of server address which I don't know how to change). With the .htacess file I get the Internal Service Error. The 'serendipity_...

I have a working copy of Serendipity on my localhost. I've tried to upload to my server which is 'ipage' but get a Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, and inform them of t...

Ian, acutally, I wrote my own 'add_author' function with adding include 'serendipity_config.inc.php'; but I can see the benefits to that I'll give it a try. Incidentally, I fixed the password encryption difference by setting the 'hashtype' to 0 in the 'serendipity_authors' table. Lately I've been wo...

Ian, never mind the password question, I figured it out:

serendipity_hash($password) converts plain text to the encrypted password in Serendipity; I just use
MD5($password). I could change mine to match easily enough.

My modifications worked fine. I open my home page and link to the Serendipity login page. I login with Serendipity which simultaneously logs me in to my website Once logged in a new window opens up to my website home page with the user logged in I have a link on this page to the blog page where I'm ...

Ian, this approach seems to work. I modified the 'serendipity_admin.php' file to include my website login validation starting at L24 using the username and password entries from the Serendipity login. At the start of the file I included the necessary input files from my website. The result is that b...

Ian, Thanks for the help/advice. I'll dig into it.
I did have another thought. Since I know the inner workings of my own website, perhaps it would be easier to use Serendipity as a portal to my home page. How difficult is it to change the Serendipity front end to incorporate my home page?

Ian, your suggestion intrigued me. Can I bypass the 'serendipity_authenticate_author()' function entirely. When my users are logged in and authenticated I have a function which returns true, i.e., 'logged_in() === TRUE' If I used that at the start of serendipity_admin what php statement would I need...

I am going to need time to digest this. I've only spent a short time with the Serendipity code and need help. Perhaps you could be more specific in how to setup the externauth plugin. I've started the SESSION and my global variables/arrays are available to Serendipity but how do I get the user_data[...

Ian, I have a general idea of what the embed wrapper accomplishes but it's not quite what I intend. I have a website where users register and login using a username and password. I use a database with a large number of tables for various elements of the website. My intent is the use the same databas...

I'm integrating Serendipity into a website I've already created. My website has it's own Registration and Login process and I want to eliminate the need to login twice. What I've done is assigned the values of username and password when I login to my website to the Serendipity 'index.tpl' template. ...

Ian, your post answered my question. After modifying the index.tpl in the templates folder I got the desired results - thanks.

That's a real registered user. I want to start the login page with the name and password of the admin. I am uncertain of where to include these starting values in the login form. Modifying the 'serendipity_admin.php' file is obviously not the correct way.