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I am completly new to php and databases... what i'm trying to do is make a site where people can register one account and have it work for multiple things, like forum and topsites.
I've downloaded the phpbb3 forum and i got the topsites files. Can I make it so when they register for the forum they get the top sites account too? Is this as simiple as setting them up with the same database, or how can i do this?
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 05:06 — 25th August 2007.
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Unless you can find a CMS that handles both of those scripts...odds are it's going to take some advanced integration. You are going to have to hack both scripts.
I've done it before between OSCommerce and the custom website. When the user registered for an account on the website itself, they automatically got an account on OSCommerce, and vise versa. What I did was manually insert the user information into the database. In other words, you will have to learn how each script sets up the account (db table relationships, keys, etc). Then hack both scripts so when a user registers on script A, the script takes that information and also puts it in the database for script B, and if a user registers on script B, you will have to manually enter the same information in the database for script A.
I think I made sense there.
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