Joomla! Auto Front-end Login

Simple Joomla! plugin which to automatically login front-end user when it is already authorized at back-end.

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Auto front-end login is a simple Joomla! plugin which allows automatically convert front-end Joomla! session to authorized one when the back-end session exists and it is active.

No additional plugins or hacks, just one Joomla! system plugin.

Auto Front-end login to authorize front-end user based on back-end session. Authorization process detect back-end session and change currrent PHP session object by loading JUser details to 'user' field. Plugin works only on front-end to avoid session duplicates.

Using onAfterInitialise() trigger gives sure that front-end session already exists (as guest) so it may be easily transform into front-end sesssion without creating new session record.