Custom login form

Important:

Information presented in this article applies to activeCollab 2 only, and does not work for activeCollab 3 and later releases! Due to specific nature of activeCollab 3 interface, simple POST of credentials does not work any more, so you should direct your visitors to activeCollab's built in log in page.

Update:

This information has been extended and moved in Integrating activeCollab Login with Your Website article in Developer's Manual. Please check it out and note that only that article will be kept up to date.

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Original Post:

If you need to provide a custom login form (from your website or something like that) you can do it by creating a form that submits a POST request to login page with following fields:

- login[email]
- login[password]
- login[remember]

and hidden field name submitted with value submitted. Here is a simple form that can log you in our trial setup:

<form method="post" action="http://www.activecollab.com/try/login">
  Email: <input type="text" name="login[email]" />
  Password: <input type="password" name="login[password]" />
  Remember me: <input type="checkbox" name="login[remember]" />
  <input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="submitted" />
  <button type="submit">Go baby go!</button>
</form>

Michael,

This should work for all versions since 1.0.