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Originally posted by djlurchg djlurchg wrote:

Scott:

Are you suggesting using tblAuthor to run my application? Not happening. Major recoding would be required.

Are you suggesting that they log in based on the WWF forum and then the rest of the site? Not happening.

Here is the flow:
user logs on to site, then clicks through to forum after doing other things.

Simple? I don't see it. ???
Well, its not so simple if you are trying to maintain two (2) member tables, yours and WWF's.  But hopefully Borg's upcoming API will help you.
 
I use WWF to handle members because most other scripts handle security poorly and WWF is superior in that area.  I did modify the WWF login scripts so that when you login it takes you back to the page you were on rather than take you to the forum (unless you are logging in from the forum, of course).  So WWF's login becomes the site's login, rather than the forum login.
 
http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/ is a good example where if you login from the front page (or any other page for that matter), it takes you back to that page. 
 
I am still running 7.x and am waiting for the final release of 8.0.  Since its a production website with lots of traffic, I am not going to use a Release Candidate (RC) on my site.
 
How are you hooking into WWF now (i.e. before 8.0)?  It shouldn't be that different in 8.0 than in 7.x.
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I was on V6 :) The reason being that my last attempt to move to 7 was too difficult based on my limited time to implement. I had to migrate to move past some security and stability issues. I had the time this weekend. Turns out it was a MUCH bigger project than I thought. 
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Yes, site integration can be tricky, although sometimes I have found it very simple, assuming you opt for one member table or another rather than try to maintain two of them.
 
I don't have a simple answer for you.  For me it was simple to use WWF as the base, but then again, I had decided that going in.  I didn't have an existing member table I had to integrate when I added WWF to the site.
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Originally posted by wistex wistex wrote:

For me it was simple to use WWF as the base


Same here, Wistex's site gave me a lot of insperation for my site and i have webwiz forums as the base for my site, this way i can garuntee that the security is always going to be far supirior to anything i had before. I sat down mulled over the pros and cons of my DB backend and WWF's DB backend and came up with many pros in favour of WWF's backend.

Shortly after V8 was released so i am currently re-writing my site to fit to the Ver8 DB.

In conclusion, the best way to do intergration would be to start of with WWF and intergrate into it's code. Understandabley this isn't everyones cup of tea but my ASP programming knowledge is very limited so i would have no way of figuring out how to hook an existing userbase into WWF and vise versa.

I wish you luck and would appreciate it if you keep us informed with how you go abput achieving your aim.
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Thanks, I'm glad my site inspired you. Smile
 
I'm hoping that the transition from 7.x to 8.x won't be so bad.  Hopefully the variables I rely on haven't changed.  I have't installed 8.x yet because I'm waiting for the stable version, like I said before.  I also want to see what the problems are and how to avoid them.  We lose money if out site is down, so I can't afford to make big mistakes.
 
I'm thinking of going to MySQL to get away from MS SQL, but that would mean I would have to rewrite most of the site.  So I may just live with MS SQL for awhile.
 
One interesting thing that I did, that may be useful for some of you to know, is that, for the most part, I never modified any of WWF's tables.  Instead, if I needed to store additional data related to a user, I created a new table and had one field hold the WWF UserID (or sometimes username if I was lazy and the script I purchased used usernames instead of IDs).  In some cases, I added a field so I could create a relationship, but I typically avoided changing any of WWF's tables.
 
And then once I started learning about INNER and OUTER JOINS, it made it so much easier to integrate.  A lot less database queries too.
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