svgmx5 Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 I have a website and i want to add a forum to it. However i currently have membership logins on my website and i want them to be able to access the forum and post topics without having to re-login into the forum system. In other words i want their session to transfer over to the forum. Does anyone have any ides of forum software that i can use and that i can implement that action? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 You will have to create your own hack to the forum you choose to allow for that. There is no forum software that I am aware of that you can just plugin to your current user account system and it will work. So any type of forum software will work, but you probably wanna go with a simpler forum than a more advanced forum as it would be easier to incorporate your current system into, but you will still have to modify it to get it to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svgmx5 Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 thanks, what type of forum would be the simples to use for this then? i had my eye on phpbb forums.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 I actually think IP.Board allows you to have multiple sources of authentication data. A chain of login strategies you might say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svgmx5 Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 daniel i looked over the ip.board and that looks like what i need thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 been a couple years but i coulda swore phpbb has a script for integrating forum stuff with main site stuff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 been a couple years but i coulda swore phpbb has a script for integrating forum stuff with main site stuff... I've done this before, but usually it's done the other way around: You have the forum already setup and you want their forum accounts to also work on the main website as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svgmx5 Posted December 1, 2009 Author Share Posted December 1, 2009 Yea, i read the documentation regarding that, and it is the other way around, its not what i need. but ip.board seems to be what i need. It costs money, but thats not the issue. Thanks everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcoderx Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 phpbb is crap. i 1 time made a site fa psychology and ended up with tons of porn spam ever after upgrading it did not stop got fedup and closd the site lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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