Since this is no longer maintained, I thought I'd share my alternate solution using:
Extension:PluggableAuth
In order for this to work you'll need to write your own auth that can tap into PHPBB3. Here's mine:
PHPBBAuth (in the the extensions, folder named PHPBBAuth with the rest of the pluggable auth code)
<?php
class PHPBBAuth extends PluggableAuth
{
public function authenticate( &$id, &$username, &$realname, &$email )
{
global $db, $cache, $config, $user, $auth, $template, $phpbb_root_path, $phpEx, $request, $symfony_request, $phpbb_filesystem, $phpbb_container, $phpbb_dispatcher;
$forumDirectory = '/var/www/forum/';
define('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH', $forumDirectory);
define('IN_PHPBB', true);
define('FROM_MEDIAWIKI', true);
$phpbb_root_path = PHPBB_ROOT_PATH;
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);
$request->enable_super_globals();
$user->session_begin();
$login = $user->data['username'];
unset($db); unset($cache); unset($config); unset($user); unset($auth); unset($template); unset($phpbb_root_path); unset($phpEx); unset($request); unset($symfony_request); unset($phpbb_filesystem); unset($phpbb_container); unset($phpbb_dispatcher);
if ($login == 'Anonymous')
return false;
$username = $login = ucfirst(strtolower($login));
$id = null;
$realname = '';
$email = '';
$res = wfGetDB( DB_SLAVE )->query("SELECT user_id FROM user WHERE user_name = '" . $login . "' LIMIT 1;");
foreach ($res as $row)
$id = $row->user_id;
return true;
}
public function deauthenticate( User &$user ) {}
public function saveExtraAttributes( $id ) {}
}
IN LocalSettings.php
wfLoadExtension( 'PHPBBAuth' );
$PluggableAuth_Timeout = 900; // Keep alive time for session before re-authenticating.
$PluggableAuth_AutoLogin = true;
$PluggableAuth_Class = 'PHPBBAuth';
