function authenticateForumAdmin($username, $pass)
{
 global $dbObject, $user, $auth, $db;
 
 $loginDetails = $auth->login($username, $pass, false, 1, 1);
 
 if($loginDetails["error_msg"] != "")
 {
     return false;
 }else{
     return true;
 }
}
 
 
 
function wp_authentication($username, $pass)
{
 global $_POST, $_COOKIE;
 
 if (function_exists('get_userdatabylogin')) {
     $user = get_userdatabylogin($username);
 
     if (! $user or $username != $user->user_login) {
	 if ((bool) get_option('http_authentication_auto_create_user')) {
	     // Create user and re-read from database for login (next step)
	     $this->create_user($username);
	     $user = get_userdatabylogin($username);
	 }
	 else {
	     // User is not in the WordPress database, and thus not authorized
	     die("User $username does not exist in the WordPress database");
	 }
     }
 
     // Login the user by feeding WordPress a double-MD5 hash
     $password = md5($user->user_pass);
 
     // User is now authorized; force WordPress to use the generated password
     $using_cookie = true;
     wp_setcookie($user->user_login, $password, $using_cookie);
 }
 else {
     die("Could not load user data");
 }
}