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Intergrating membership with Invision boards

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:21 pm
by Linkjames
Ok, I have created a site (No doubt some of you have seen my desperate pleas for help when I am to blind to spot a simple syntax error - Thanks to all that helped) which is due to be released main stream as soon as I can afford paid hosting (Next month or two). Anyway, my question is this....
What is the best way to intergrate users with invision board? What I mean by this is...
People can register with my site (Like most sites), but I also plan to run a forum, and want to intergrate site users and forum users (i.e You sign up with one, you sign up with the other)
Anyway, as far as I can see, there are a few options:
  • Have seperate lists for the site and the forum. A user created on one creates one on the other - this would cause problems when updating profiles
  • Use the same MySql table as the forums - Easy but I would rather avoid as it justs feels wrong. Don't ask, its just a feeling
  • Create my own forum from scratch - Given the effort of creating the site I have now, I dread this idea, although I think I could manage it (Just)
Anyway, anyone tryed this before? Is there an easyer way? Is there a simple solution I missed? Am I just daft?

Cheers guys - Link

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:28 pm
by JAM
I'm currently using the XMB board (light weighter) on some site. I used the member table in that with the front page's login system. A moderator in the board, is by doing this, also a admin on the site, that are able to add/change/delete news, change settings, adding links etc etc.

A user needs to login, and the status (admin (or moderator) or regular user) needs to be checked. Why not use something that is allready there? ;)

Why you should do it, is solely up to you. Just thought I'd mention it tho.

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:38 pm
by Linkjames
Thanks for the advice. However I set my code and table up before it occured to me to intergrate with the forum. Failing a better option (Which I hold out no hope for) I will redo it to use the forum users table, but I just rather keep my table and design (Given how hard I worked on it). I suppose its just lazyness, but I figured if there was a way, someone on here would know it.

I guess I will intergrate the forum user table, it was really just a shot in the dark. Thanks for your help JAM