Ryan A <mailto:ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 3:07 PM said: > a client wants me to add a forum to his existing site...which is not a > problem, the problem is he wants it to work off his existing site > > eg: > once someone logs in to the main site they dont have to relogin or > create new accounts in the forum section > ....a one login gets you total site access kind of deal. I don't personally know of something that meets all these requirements, and you might be hard pressed to find one (applications aren't generally built with accomodating an unknown authentication system in mind). One thing you could do is, when a new account is created on the main site execute a script to add the same username/password to the forum's db. Then within the forum software change it so that the authentication page looks to session data for it's authentication info (i.e. username/password) instead of from a form. In this way the user will be seamlessly authenticated to the forum. This means of course that you'll have to store the password of the user in the session data which may or may not be a good idea. > The second thing is, as clients go, these ar'nt too bright :-) a > reallll simple forum/forum admin is needed, I was looking at phpbb > but after running a test install on my system i think it would be a > little too complicated for them plus it has to sit into the existing > design... recommendations please..... I don't know about this one. Maybe you could cull the admin section to include only the necessary option and hide everything else from the admin as to not overwhelm their puny brain. HTH, Chris. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
