I just installed it. It looks great. And I am glad to hear you will be supporting additional integration options.
I definitely want one login for the website though. That is a must.
I've already integrated many other scripts to use WWF's membership
database with great success.
Some things I would like to see for integration:
- WWF account and NewsPad account with matching e-mail addresses are linked. Or alternatively, WWF maintains the user account and NewsPad just keys off that.
- Users can log in to WWF with a username, and NewsPad with their e-mail address.
- Logging in to WWF and NewsPad have same password for a user.
- Logging into WWF logs them into NewsPad.*
- Logging into NewsPad logs them into WWF.*
- Users do not have to create a second account on WWF if they have one on NewsPad and vice versa.
- To the user, it should look like there is only one account for the whole website (although they can login with their e-mail address and password on NewsPad or their username and password on WWF).
*Assuming both reside on the same domain name.I hope that's not too tall of an order, but I think it could be done without any problems.
Also, in future versions of WWF, you may want to add integration options there as well. For example, when someone creates an account on WWF, it doesn't assume the account is just for WWF and displays links to go to NewsPad, for example.
For example, right now WWF goes to the forum's default page when someone registers or logs in. On my website, I am actually thinking of creating a different page they go to when first logged in, which links to the forums, mailing lists, member only downloads and other features our website has, instead of assuming the only reason they joined was for the forum.
I may even set a parameter so that it features a specific section based on where they came from on the site. For example, if they came from the forums to login or register, I would assume they were creating an account and wanted to go back to the forums. If they were in the newsletters section, then I would assume they want to go back there. If they were in the recipes section, I would assume they want the members only downloads there and send them back there.
If you did something like that, you could make WWF become a universal login for all your products (and ones we integrate into WWF), and have WWF handle the registration and logins for everything (if WWF integration is turned on). Just pass the necessary parameters from WWF and no need to maintain NewsPad accounts separately.
Just some ideas. Thanks for the great work.