2 forums sharing 1 user table

[stwood]

Hi There,

Is there a way for 2 installs of VBulletin to share, one user table of the 1st Database i.e.

Install 1 holds all the users and install 2 uses install 1s user table.

Basically I want my 2 installs to share the one member list, and user settings etc.

Thanks

[amykhar]

You do know that you need 2 licenses for that right?

[stwood]

Yes, I Do thanks :)

[Gary King]

I don't think it's really possible; things wouldn't work properly, etc. Too much trouble to go through.

[stwood]

Okay Thanks

[colicab-d]

im gonna try this one out

[fengshui-123]

any successful hack on this?

[poetic]

yes this whould be cool

[Gary King]

I think you would be much better off requesting something like this in the Service Requests forum, because I don't think anyone would want to create something like this for free, especially if only 1 or 2 people would want to actually use it :)

[fengshui-123]

Please take a look at this simple and straight forward method, not sure whether can do the same way for vb:
http://forums.ibplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=1560

[firenuts]

fengshui-123,

Could you tell us the magic to this mod? And how can it implemented on VB?

[Andreas]

I think this is not too difficult, at first sight (just some brainstorming):

Go through all PHP-files and put constant TABLE_PREFIX before all table-references except tables user, userfield and useractivation (you could use a different constant for them).

Install both forums using the same database but different TABLE_PREFIX (i guess after the first install you will have to delete the tables user, userfield and useractivation otherwise the install-script will cry ;))

BUT: This causes some major problems like post counters, usergroup-memberships, last post/activity, etc.