Site Integration

Dear WebWizForums,

Firstly, congratulations on such an awesome forums package. I've been searching everywhere for some ASP/ASP.NET based forums and none seemed to have what I want, but the Web Wiz Forums are perfect!

The site I plan to deploy the forums on is a community site for my local area (eyre peninsula in South Australia). The site is written in ASP.NET, and contains a lot of dynamic pages. We have our own registration page, and our own login page, and we don't want our users to have to login twice (once for the site, once for the forums), and the same with registration.

Would it be at all possible to integrate our login and registration pages with the forums? I don't mind changing our pages, and I am happy to make our login forms and registration page submit to the WebWizForums pages (by changing the Action attribute of our login form for instance). But then we will have problems with the rest of our site being able to view the login - your login uses some sort of hashed password yes? Ours doesn't, but we're happy to change it.

An easier method might be to make our registration page write to both our Users table and yours, and the same with the login pages. So when a user logs in, a cookie for the forums would be planted, along with a cookie for us.

If you could provide some information as to how I might change our user authentication to use your Users table, that would be excellent. I think this would be the best method.

Yours sincerely,

Paul Stovell

Thanks man, I had been searching and reading through the ASP code and I managed to get it all integrated.

These forums are great. It would be really good if the authors could write a guide on this sort of integration - what values can be changed etc.

In case anyone is interested, this is how I did it:

1) Made my login and registration pages point to WWF's login and Registration pages.
2) Changed the ASP code in the login/reg pages to return back to the web site's root after a succesful login (rather than the forums root).
3) Commented out the security lines in login_user.asp, and made my own login forms on my site point to the login_user.asp page as the action attribute of the form.
4) Changed the password encryption attribute to false (may change it back later if neccessary).
5) Modified my ASP.NET classes to use tblAuthors (WWF) as the user table, rather than my own user table, since they have the same basic information.

When my own pages are checking for a logged in user, I check the cookie "WWF" for the key "UID", and compare that value to the database. Eg:

string UserID = Request.Cookies["WWF"]["UID"];

Hope this post helps anyone else who might face the same problems.

Paul Stovell