Hey, Thanks, will look into it. I did like this part the best though: "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." hehe If only our clients knew how we speak about them or their "computer skills" Cheers, -Ryan On 4/6/2005 12:50:31 AM, Chris W. Parker (cparker@xxxxxxxxxxxx) 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. > > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.1 - Release Date: 4/1/2005 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
