Multiple Forums, 1 database ?
 

Has this been figured out yet ? I want to link up 5 or so VB installs so members can move freely between sites .

yeah my friend is trying to do the same thing, don't know if he figured it out yet i'll let you know if he has.

Thanks , any help would be great . Ive postponed doing this for over 2 years now in hopes that there would be a tidy solution . VB is asleep at the wheel lol.

So basically you want to be able to share the same user tables, but have each forum be separate otherwise? It would require a bit of recoding, I haven't heard of anything that would allow you to do that. Is there really any reason you need multiple installs of it, and why you can't just use one install and split it into sections?

If all site on the same server i think you can use the same database. but i think you need to have 5 vb lisense for that ( i'm not sure but i guess you have to ).

One server set up five ip ( virtual base Ip) then each site you put one copy of VB and in config you just point to the same database.

I think you can achieve that on same server but if remote site, i don't know you can or not , maybe it can if it on the same host.

One install split into sections could actually work really well if each section could have its own page and not just be as it is now with small verticle breaks as you scroll down . . . . If that makes sence ?

Has anybody done this or is there a hack already for this ? That would save some $$$

Use MySQL Views to "merge" any user info related tables.