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Topic: my login and the forum

Posted By: coldclimber
Subject: my login and the forum
Date Posted: 16 July 2004 at 6:16am

I would like to merge two databases togother in access i have a login page to the site where members can register and creat a profile of them selves and then i have the forums what i would like to do is have it so that once a member registers they do not have to re-register to use the forum any suggestions on how to this

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 16 July 2004 at 7:27am

As the forum uses 160bit encryption of passwords you are better using the forum a the regsitartion system for your site.

Just change the members part of your site to use the forums database, the registartion form for the forum could be used as your members signup page.

The common.asp page in the forum does the login check for the user using cookies and unique codes stored in the cookie from the database.

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Posted By: robgt
Date Posted: 21 July 2004 at 7:24am

I have much the same question, although your answer isn't an option in my case unfortunately.

I am retrofitting a forum to an existing site with thousands of registered users and the site owner (my client) will not allow me to switch the login to the forum one. Only his registered site users will be allowed to access the forums (no problem there) but I must get around your forum login somehow. By this I mean that the user should only have to login a single time and that already happens on the main website. If tracking a date and time of login in the forum database is needed, that shouldn't be a problem.

I had the idea that when users register on the site, I could create a Stored Procedure to insert the relevant details into the relevant forum database tables (if needed) and then auto log them in when they connect to the forum home page, thus negating the need for a separate registration page to be completed and obviously, a second login.

I understand the 'security' answer given in the previous post, this is not an issue as the site's login system is also very secure.

I'm using the latest SQL Server version of the forum and it has it's very own database too.

Advice, hints and tips would be greatly appreciated as to how I can achieve this objective.

Cheers!