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WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 June 2006 at 9:18am
	You are along the right lines. All you should need to do is make a second copy of Web Wiz Forums in another folder on the site, but have it linked to the same database. You can then change the header.asp and footer.asp as well as the CSS files for both forums to give them both different looks.
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wistex Members Profile Find Members Posts Mod Builder Group Joined: 30 August 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 877	Post Options Post Reply Quote wistex Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 June 2006 at 2:04pm
	I used the same technique that Borg described and it worked like a charm. Exactly what you need, Landlord-Forum. :) For me, I'd actually like two different forums with one userbase. I've seen this done on other forums, and one way to accomplish this is to modify one or both forum installations to point to the same member tables, but still have the rest of each forum point to different tables. Both forums would need to use the same database, just with a different table prefix... except for the members tables which would have the same prefix. If most of the membership / login / logout code is in one place, then this would actually be pretty easy to implement. It will be a nightmare if the code is spread out throughout the forum code. Edited by wistex - 06 June 2006 at 2:04pm
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Landlord-Forum Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 11 January 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 19	Post Options Post Reply Quote Landlord-Forum Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 June 2006 at 3:23pm
	many thanks, it seems to work a treat, did just that, a folder called forum2, i am now going to change the 3 files you mention. great forum code this, very simple to use/change etc well done wwf and thanks to you all on the forum here! ** update-- eek, i can't login. say the capthcha code is wrong, is this something to do with the forum running in an inline frame on another site? easy fix? or do i have to reverse the way i have the site framed i.e., frame the bits for the other site on my pages?? and host from my server? thanks JP Edited by Landlord-Forum - 06 June 2006 at 4:38pm

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 June 2006 at 5:38pm
	Try connecting to the forum without the Iframe and see if it works, if it does you know it's the Iframe coursing issues. I would recommend staying clear of frames as they can course issues with browsers.
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Landlord-Forum Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 11 January 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 19	Post Options Post Reply Quote Landlord-Forum Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 June 2006 at 6:03pm
	Hi Borg, not sure how to do that. basically the forum is on my site (site1) and i want to share it on another site not owned by me (site2) (i have ftp access to both sites and am modifying pages in both). so, i am using an inline frame on the other site to call up the forum in the middle of the page, keeping the other sites look and feel top/side/bottom banner/ads in place. i get the feeling this is a cookie issue with the forum trying to do a cookie while technically in another site (address bar reads for the other site.) i would like ideaaly that users feel thay have not left site 2 but have access to the forum form there without coming to the forum site. i could take the pages from site 2 and host them on site1, just makes updating them a pain, or i suppose i could frame them up form my site, still got the address bar showng site1 though...

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 June 2006 at 6:15pm
	If you use mySQL or SQL Server you should be able to connect to the same database from 2 completely different sites. Also as you are setting up a new forum you should consider using version 8 as it is a vast improvement over version 7 and uses a different login system that doesn't require cookies.
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