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Z1K0B4 
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 Topic: Merge with existing member driven website
Posted: 15 May 2003 at 10:09am |
Ok, I am new at all of this so bear with me.
I have a current website, http://www.ucgaonline.com and would like to incorporate this forum into it but do not want to require users to register once for the site and again for the forum. what code can i put into the site registration to register the user in the forum also? I have tried simply adding the user to the forum DB but the pass doesn't work when a user tries to log in... Thanks for any help and sorry if this has already been answered.
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Posted: 15 May 2003 at 10:36am |
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Can you use the WWF login instead to register users on your site?
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Z1K0B4
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Posted: 15 May 2003 at 11:26am |
with a lot of work... i am requiring more information for registration...
Is there not a portion of the WWF i could put into my registration to do the same thing the WWF registration does? If so, where is it. I looked last night but could not follow everything.
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Posted: 15 May 2003 at 3:12pm |
If you want the forums to power up the site you can use some simple mods i made (search the mods and add ons forum), there very simple, it'll just give you an idea of how it can be done......
If you site to power the forums then you would have to modify the common.asp to get the user details from your site's database instead of the forums db...you'll also have to modify a few other pages like the register.asp and you'll have to add fields on your site database to hold the user settings for the forum... the first choice might be easier if you don't have a lot of users registered already on your site...
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Posted: 15 May 2003 at 3:50pm |
I just recently did this and it required me to edit the cookies set by my login and accessed by WWF (so that the user only logs in one area). It also required editing tblAuthor and creating a view to merge the tblAuthor info with my member database. Registration and login are directed to my site's login. Users can use WWF to edit information still stored in the WWF forums and all other information strored for my site is edited in my site's user management area.
The integration can be seen here
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Posted: 15 May 2003 at 7:02pm |
Z1K,
Do you have alot of space on your host? If so, just duplicate existing user accounts to the WWF db. WWF registration is fairly easy
I've written the code to register 5000 members!! but the info is sorta the same. For your approach, it's just a matter of query the existing db and insert required info into wwf db.
cheer
by the way, what host are you using? pretty fast!
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Posted: 15 May 2003 at 7:16pm |
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web space wouldn't be the only problem if it's done that way you would have to have a script to update the db very often (like everytime someone registers) and don't forget that you would have to encrypt the passwords so that they work with wwf .....
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Posted: 15 May 2003 at 7:56pm |
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you would have to update the database every time a user registered, changed their password, changed their name, and any other information that was stored in both tables. Scripting something like that isn't difficult, but it's much easier to just not have duplicate data. The less duplicate data, the less chance that something goes wrong.
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