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Evening,

I'm trying to make a simple 'login' feature for my site. I'd rather just have a dropdown box of sorts, and to login, the redirect back to the page you submitted it on.

I've some code I found (I'm VERY new to wordpress), and it doesn't seem to be working right, when I click 'send', nothing changes. The page gives no errors, and it just sits there, it doesn't say I've logged in, or give any indication it's acting different. 

<?php if (!(current_user_can('level_0'))){ ?>
<h2>Login</h2>
<form action="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>../../wordpress/wp-login.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="log" id="log" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars(stripslashes($user_login), 1) ?>" size="20" />
<input type="password" name="pwd" id="pwd" size="20" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send" class="button" />
    <p>
       <label for="rememberme"><input name="rememberme" id="rememberme" type="checkbox" checked="checked" value="forever" /> Remember me</label>
       <input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>" />
    </p>
</form>
<a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword">Recover password</a>
<?php } else { ?>
<h2>Logout</h2>
<a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url(urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])); ?>">logout</a><br />
<a href="http://XXX/wp-admin/">admin</a>
<?php }?>
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Please can you explain what isn't working correctly? – Vince Pettit Jul 17 '12 at 14:58
Yeah, sorry, when I click 'send', nothing changes. The page gives no errors, and it just sits there, it doesn't say I've logged in, or give any indication it's acting different. – Adola Jul 17 '12 at 15:05

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It depends on where your login script is. This is my testscript (saved as ìndex.php`):

<html>
<head>
    <title>Testform</title>
</head>
<body>
    <?php
        require_once '../wp-load.php';

        var_dump($_COOKIE);

        if ( !( current_user_can('level_0') ) ){
            wp_login_form();
        }
        else { ?>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="<?php echo home_url('/wp-admin/'); ?>">Admin</a></li>
            <li><a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url( get_permalink() ); ?>">Logout</a></li>
        </ul>
    <?php } ?>
</body>

I installed WordPress in a subdirectory on my local server (testdoma.in/wordpress). If I install the script in a subdirectory within my WordPress installation (testdoma.in/wordpress/external), it works. If I install the script in the root (and change the require_once to wordpress/wp-load.php), no way to get it working.

If you try to access WordPress functions, the scripts have to be in a subfolder of or directly within your WordPress installation.

UPDATE

After some research, it is a cookie problem. The plugin root Cookie will resolve the problem.

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Change this line:

<form action="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>../../wordpress/wp-login.php" method="post">

to this:

<form action="<?php echo site_url('/wp-login.php') ?>" method="post">

Updated:

Consider to use simple wp_login_form(). See wp_login_form reference for possible function arguments.

<?php
if ( !( current_user_can('level_0') ) ){
    wp_login_form();
}
else { ?>
<ul>
    <li><a href="<?php echo site_url('/wp-admin/'); ?>">Admin</a></li>
    <li><a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url( get_permalink() ); ?>">Logout</a></li>
</ul>
<?php } ?>
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That didn't change anything, after hitting 'send' the page returns, and doesn't indicate a change. IS this a cookie error? – Adola Jul 18 '12 at 0:57
@Adola, please see updated code above. – Max Yudin Jul 18 '12 at 7:13
The same issue persists. After hitting 'login' the page returns without any indication of loggin in. It just greets me with the login form again. – Adola Jul 18 '12 at 10:22
Do you have debugging enabled? WP_DEBUG. And where do you place this form? – Max Yudin Jul 18 '12 at 10:33
I do not have debugging enabled, and I placed it in /domain/TEST/scripts/php/testWP.php Also, I suspect it's a cookie issue, as in, is_user_logged_in() isn't working right. – Adola Jul 18 '12 at 10:38
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