User Management
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:52 pm
Hello,
I am somewhat new to PHP and OOP. I am beginning to frame out a pretty big website that I would like to make, and was just wondering if anybody has some advice they would like to share to help me get off of the ground.
My main question is regarding Bulletin Boards. I want my website to have a user management system. Once logged in, the user will have access to a series of forums, but I also need them to have access to some other applications that I will be making myself. I would like my applications and the BB to be very tightly knit. So, I am looking for a BB that would make this goal possible.
I feel that most BBs I have looked at have their own user management system, and in attempting to extend those user classes to work with my own applications, I am afraid that I may damage the classes that the BB uses, or that I will have difficulty changing the functionality of them. I do not need all of the features of phpBB, but that would be awesome if I could. I am really just looking for a way to get all of my applications under the same user management/authentication classes in the easiest way that still works.
If you have time to respond in detail, that would be great, but even if you can just point me to some good documentation, that would be good too.
I realize my terminology may be off, just let me know if I need to clarify something.
Thanks
I am somewhat new to PHP and OOP. I am beginning to frame out a pretty big website that I would like to make, and was just wondering if anybody has some advice they would like to share to help me get off of the ground.
My main question is regarding Bulletin Boards. I want my website to have a user management system. Once logged in, the user will have access to a series of forums, but I also need them to have access to some other applications that I will be making myself. I would like my applications and the BB to be very tightly knit. So, I am looking for a BB that would make this goal possible.
I feel that most BBs I have looked at have their own user management system, and in attempting to extend those user classes to work with my own applications, I am afraid that I may damage the classes that the BB uses, or that I will have difficulty changing the functionality of them. I do not need all of the features of phpBB, but that would be awesome if I could. I am really just looking for a way to get all of my applications under the same user management/authentication classes in the easiest way that still works.
If you have time to respond in detail, that would be great, but even if you can just point me to some good documentation, that would be good too.
I realize my terminology may be off, just let me know if I need to clarify something.
Thanks