Is this possible?!

[Sohail]

Hi, i have two website and one is a blog (Joomla) for tutorials and the other is my forums (PHPbb3) :-
http://forums.sohailtech.com/ Forums
http://tutorials.sohailtech.com/ Tutorials

I want to know if it's possible so that people who have made an account on Joomla don't have to make a separate account for the forums and can log in to the forums using their Joomla account.

The reason i want this done is so that everyone on my site has their own unique ID called an S TECH ID and if someone could do this for me i would be willing ot pay loads of credits as it would be a great leap for my website.

Thanks.

 

[JuanMtg]

Try looking here:
http://startrekguide.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=3801
and here:
http://www.cbconnector.com/

 

[Sohail]

Are you sure that's what i need? As i did a bit of research and noticed that it just puts phpbb3 into a dynamic wrapper on Joomla but i don't want that. I want the forum users to be able to login with their Joomla account... Or is that not possible?

 

[diabolo]

you would need to redo the script, and mysql databases, it could be possible.
so then you would have to join the databases, and merge the two member tables together, and then the member id's would be screwed up since it would have two 1's two 2's, so then you would have to start with a new system, and make your users register again...

you might want to think of the way x10 does it, makes you register on the forums too.

 

[Sohail]

Thanks, it might be better to leave them separate then...
I'm not going to go through all that trouble .

 

[flixin]

well you can do it manually too....create users with same joomla username and a default password.....user'll change their passkeys....wat do u say??

 

[Sohail]

I need all my Joomla website as they submit a lot of content and it's just too complicated to mess with that but deleting all my forum users is fine as i've only really installed it and customized it a little. It hardly has any posts so i'm fine with that but i don't see how i can link Joomla users to PHPbb3 without creating a mess which is why i though that it might just be better to forget about it. Leaving it as seperate will give users the choice, and they may not want to create a username for Joomla as well as PHPbb3 which is why i made that dessiscion.

 

[Jose Magsino]

Hi,
Have you tried this one? I've just googled this one though

http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,524/Itemid,35/

 

[Sohail]

It might be what i'm looking for but do you think there's a version that works with PHPbb3 istead of version 2?

 

[taekwondokid42]

One possibility might be to just use the same mysql user tables for both accounts. By this I mean that specific universal data (such as username, password, e-mail account, ect.) could all be hosted on one table. Apart from the one table, the engines could be kept entirely separate, and various data (such as post count) could differ from engine to engine.

I'm not sure how much code you would have to change on each of the engines, but I think that it would be the easiest way of doing things.

 

[ihackdw]

you could i think just get the database from one site and put it the the other and then in your sign up script write the info to both database's.

 

[Sohail]

Well i've given up on this idea as it's way too complicated and maybe more professional if i just leave it the way it is...

There was someone who PMd me saying he could write a script for me for free that could do the job and said he was busy at the moment so he would write it in about a week but he still hasn't replied yet and it's been over a week, maybe 2 :O.