Merge with existing member driven website
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Topic: Merge with existing member driven website
Posted By: Z1K0B4
Subject: Merge with existing member driven website
Date Posted: 15 May 2003 at 10:09am
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Ok, I am new at all of this so bear with me. I have a current website, http://www.ucgaonline.com - 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 By: jabbasabba
Date Posted: 15 May 2003 at 10:36am
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Can you use the WWF login instead to register users on your site? ------------- "Itīs different between knowing the way than walking it" |
Posted By: Z1K0B4
Date Posted: 15 May 2003 at 11:26am
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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. |
Posted By: fernan82
Date Posted: 15 May 2003 at 3:12pm
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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... ------------- FeRnAN http://www.danasoft.com/"> 
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Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 15 May 2003 at 3:50pm
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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 http://www.longbox.com/msg - here |
Posted By: boyohboy
Date Posted: 15 May 2003 at 7:02pm
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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! ------------- Visit my community website @ http://www.everythingviet.com - EverythingVIET.com |
Posted By: fernan82
Date 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 ..... ------------- FeRnAN http://www.danasoft.com/">
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Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 15 May 2003 at 7:56pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Z1K0B4
Date Posted: 15 May 2003 at 9:22pm
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So i guess what i am hearing is that there is no special code i can use to send my form info to the WWF DB. I need to use the WWF Database for all of my user registration and verification. Beyond that, I can use other DBs for my other info. Is this correct? |
Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 15 May 2003 at 10:34pm
| You don't need to if you are willing and able to do the mod yourself, but there is no special code or current mod to do it for you. Maybe I'll build the mod to do whem I finish with my board's mod, but that will be much much later say a couple months from now. |
Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 16 May 2003 at 3:38am
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wot about the merge from V6.43 to V.7 you could copy the usernames and passwords into the V6.43 database and then merge it to V7 then your users can login and you can mod your site to work off the forum database how many users do you have? |
Posted By: Z1K0B4
Date Posted: 16 May 2003 at 7:19am
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users is about 100 right now. Previously, i had been using a forum i wrote (that stunk but you could post and read messages) |
Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 16 May 2003 at 8:31am
I don't think is an option for every one. The members for my site have 20 different levels of authorization for 7 different areas of the site and based upon their authorization level they can set authorization levels on other accounts. That's 20 different setting for 7 areas or 20*20*20*20*20*20*20 different combinations for authorization. Not soemthing that is needed to run WWF and not something that should be combined into its database. My member can then be associated with over 30 other tables in the database. Not counting the forum tables there are close to 60 tables in the database, so in some cases it's much easier to mod WWF to user your site's login etc than to mod your site to use WWF. |
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