[smallbeer]

How do I explain this...

Say if you've got a member area on a site and you then have to add a forum to the site but you need to configure the forum database so that if people register on the "frontend" site, they also get registered on the forum and vice versa. Is that easy enough to do?

I know you could easily enough change the database tables and rows to match each other but from experience of fucking with forums, there'll be a tiny bit of code somewhere in the forum files that doesn't like the new name and purposely hides itself from you until you're ready to throw your monitor out the window.

Anyone know if there are better than most purpose built forum software out there that intergrate better with this kinda stuff?

Did I explain that well? Probably not.

[oli]

What forum software you using ?
There will be a hack for this - vbulletin.org / phpbbhacks.com

[smallbeer]

Originally Posted by oli

What forum software you using ?
There will be a hack for this - vbulletin.org / phpbbhacks.com

haven't decided yet. the easiest.

[oli]

There are loads more hacks for vbulletin and its easier to add them but you have to pay for it.

[press711]

It should be easy to do .. all of theses softwraes will probably have a separate users table ..and you should need to do only a single entry into the users table..

I used to use phpBB never did much chnages to it ..
but i have also worked on dotproject2.. which is much more than just a forums software and it was preet easy in that ..you just need to create entries in the user table and the permissions table.

Simplest way .. create a user in the softwrae of your choice.. give hime the desired permissions and make sure you canlogin into his account.... once that is done just find out what tables were affected(having that userid) and you just need to make sure you affect the same tables in the same manner.

Hope it helps ..

Cheers.