Authentication in a website that will transfer into phpbb or similar forum

[horseatingweeds]

I'm planning on adding a third party forum such as phpbb to a website. I also plan to add an other area to this site that will require authentication which I plan to write myself (I'm still learning the basics of php)

 

I've been learning today about authentication and looking over the phpbb files. Is it possible to build my authentication to use the phpbb's authentication and thus make them effective across the entire site?

[jhenary]

I just started with php recently and ran into the same problem. Short answer, yes.

 

http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/phpbb2-sessions-integration/

 

That is the phpbb tutorial on how to integrate phpbb to your site. So far it has worked flawlessly for me. I made a website for a small group of friends and even added a few fields to the phpbb_users table such as first and last name and user level. These added fields also get transferred through session data so you can customise your page to show links or information if the user is logged in or if their access level is such and such. There isn't much info on creating users from your own page, but I just took the create user page I had already made and used it to send data to phpbb_users with the normal options set and adding the extra fields I made.