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I am very new to vbulleting and i don't know anything about php. but i would like to setup a 2 message boards and give same users access. can anyone help me?

hugojr or westpointer

PLEASE help

Can anyone please help out a newbie please come on what does it take some money that is ok by me. As you can tell I do not know nothing about php nor vbulletin so please help me.

OK I have done everthing but I am getting an error in the admincp now everytime I go to search for users I get this error
what does this mean? here is what line 1156 looks like
please someone please help me..

I just posted this in a different forum before finding this thread. PLEASE first of all, reading my post below, am I understanding it correctly, that this hack will do what I am requesting below?

AND ALSO

will this work with 3.5.1?

I should probably make sure that I point this out, the two different sites are on the same server but are completely different domains.

I haven't tried this with ver 3.5.1 but the concept would be the same. It would take some slight tweaking (ie DB_site) is no longer the correct syntax, but you could probably figure it out.

This does look like what you'd want. You don't "import" the users into the second db, it simply reads the users from the same db.

Hmm, that looks fine to me. The only function you are callind is $DB_site so I'm not sure why line 1156 would not work while 1154 does. What happens if you make the two the same? Does the query run then? (Obviously, don't leave it that way! Just for testing the code.) ;)

A number of folks have ask me to do this. I'll tried to do a 3.5.1 example this week. :up:

Thank you so much!!

Looking forward for this......

I found a nice utility to do the string replacements with. Its called FSRU Example of how well it worked for me.

Do i need an individual license for each 'board' ?

I have 2 forums (3.5.2) on the same server and want to share user database from one forum to another. Is it the right hack for that? Could you make it for vbulletin 3.5.2?

Thank you!

Yes. Each install requires a separate license if you use this method.

I keep meaning to to that. Time is the enemy. (Yes, this is the right hack.)

waiting for 3.5.2 release!

Westpointer any update on VB3.5.2?

Sorry, I just haven't had the time to do this. Not forgotten. Maybe next week. :nervous:

Cool enjoy the holidays

Any update so this will work with 3.5.X?

Looking for this for ages!
Thankyou!

Same here !

Hi west!

Anyhow, once you figure out how to do this with 3.5.3, I, and numerous others, will be extremely grateful.

Only question with that is this - will I be able to still "merge" the databases if both forums are already setup, but not large at all?

Thanks!

Under the current setup, merging would be difficult. I'm going to modify the install instructions (eventually :disappointed: ) so that instead of each install being in the same db, they have a different db's with the user's linked view a "shared_prefix" when calling tables.

Has anyone tried doing this with 3.5.x? The concept is identical; there may just be other places where if statements need to be used instead of a straight find and replace.

One of the things I thought I'd see present in this hack would be the ability to show all users logged in from all sites in the form of one big who's online.

For example, if I have 5 users on site 1, and 10 users on site 2, I would be looking at a list of 15 users total.

Why doesn't the who's online feature show all members on both sites? I guess it's because the "session" table is unique on site 1 and site 2. Is this possible to show all logged in users from both active sites?

Would it be a matter of modifying the whos online for the 2nd install to use Site 1's session table? would there be any problems sharing the 'session' table?

Regards,
Peter

it seems that part 8 is out of date. its no longer working. how could we get this working again?

There is nothing wrong with any of the instructions. Not only this, but I was able to share the 'sessions' table and now all users are actively shown on both sites. :)

The good news is it's working.. just like I thought it would.. the bad news is it's way to early to tell if anything will or can go wrong. :)

Also, since I'm not having a problem, and I'm also on a way older version of VB than described in this hack, just to let you know.... #8 the $idname hack info above for a certain function didn't even exist!

Not only this, my search and replace couldn't find any " . TABLE_PREFIX . "strikes either. When in doubt, the only thing really required is review of your SQL statement. When the author says replace " . TABLE_PREFIX ."user with "."user he really means replace it just like that.

I will mention another thing that puzzled me, if you notice, the author is using some special "quote" around his periods in the tutorial above. In my case, it appeared like block characters in my Search and Replace function so I just replaced the funky `` quotes into single double quotes surrounded by the period. ie: "."

Regards,
Peter

Peter - thanks for explaining some of the above. Yes, this is for vb3.0.x. The concept is the same for vb 3.5.x but you will need to make changes, especially for #8. I keep saying I intend to update this but between RL, helping with ecDownloads, finishing up a new extension I'm about to release ... not enough time in the day!

i am looking forward to it!

thank you for your efforts!!!

I am getting the following errors in the admincp once I try to change a users permission.





can someone please tell me what this means

Sure,

One thing I can say that is not working as described in your how to, would be the Member Count. For some reason, after 2-3 days now, New Forum #2 is still only showing 1 user.... however is there something I can run to sync this up? You quickly mentioned something about waiting for Cron to refresh. Where exactly do I run this to refresh? and wouldn't it have done it already?

Regards,
Peter

I'm looking forward to this on 3.5.3 so I can run a forum on one domain and classified ads on another.

Please help me, after applying this hack I can't login in the admincp!
Everything else seems working fine, but when I login in admincp I return to login form, maybe a session problem?

:ermm:

This worked for me when I got locked out:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73439

Post #23

Is this the same code for 3.5.2 or do I need to change anything.

Cheers,

Chris

Westy: Any luck working out how do this for 3.5.x? I really need to have two installs of vB sharing the same user database and so far this is the nearest thing I've found. Cheers for your help so far.

I too could use this for 3.5.x ;)

I don't think you guys realize... that this is a general hack that is not just for vb 3.. it can be used in ANY vb version, it's the "guts" behind the hack/info that defines how or what should be done.

Keep in mind, even with the proper info above for the "set" version he is writing this hack for, still does not work out of the box. Well, it does kinda, if you use the exact version the author is using. However, even the instructions I had to work with, I was missing some strikes table and a few others.. I just skipped them. No harm done.

The only problem I've had with this hack is very minor --

When you have a Running board, with say 1000 members or posts and then begin this hack to a fresh board, the new board statistics do not reflect the old board.

ie: 1 Thread, 1 Post, 1 Members

Then I made a tweak to at least show who's online (I made old board and the new board look at the same `sessions` table, so now if there are 5 users on the old board, there is 5 users + how many users are on the new board. That works.

The problem we have is the "new fresh board" member count. It's only showing 1 member - Admin. However, now I've got to find a way to refresh this stats.. if possible.. to reflect what both boards show. I think it's some serilized data somewhere in the db. I'll figure it out soon enough. :)