Posted by Andre Dubuc on 04/06/05 02:04

On Tuesday 05 April 2005 06:50 pm, Chris W. Parker wrote:
> Ryan A <mailto:ryan@coinpass.com>
>
> 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

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