SMF/vB Shared Database

[Digital Jedi]

I've never really seen it asked (or even done) before. Can you get two forum softwares to share the same database? Possible, even if difficult?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

No problem at all, as long as you use prefixes to ensure there are no tables shared between the 2.

[Digital Jedi]

I imagine, then, that there's no way to get them to share threads and posts, which is what I was going for?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Lol, no that would be impossible (or loads and loads of work).

[Adrian Schneider]

Sounds like a job for thousands of cheap data-entry users.

[Digital Jedi]

Is there a bear minimum of information that the two could share besides post and threads? Say, just login or account information?

[Adrian Schneider]

I've build an application that does this sort of thing, but haven't made it work with SMF before.

I'd quote this with a strong "far more trouble than its worth". Why do you want both forums running simultaneously?

[Digital Jedi]

I wanted a styles demo forum that didn't require a user to register on each forum to demo a style for a respective software.

[ssslippy]

So just allow guests to change styles.

[Digital Jedi]

So just allow guests to change styles.
That still limits them to guest view. I want them to be able to physically interact with the forum as a registered user. I don't plan on opening up posting privileges to guests, so I would like a basic solution to the login (and ideally posting) that would allow them to move around freely without multiple registrations, particularly if I decide to expand designing skins for other forums softwares.