On Tuesday 05 April 2005 06:50 pm, Chris W. Parker wrote: > 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. Might want to look at: http://fudforum.org hth, Andre -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
