Question about Vbulletin User Tables
 

Hey,

I been toying around with the idea to make 2 forums both using vbulletin (both will also run the same version. In this case 3.8.4), however what I wanted to do is to use my current forum user database as the database for the other forum. Now I know that you can transfer the user database using the Impex but that's not entirely what I want. I don't want to have a back up of my current user database but I actually want to make both forums run of the same user database. Meaning if one signs up for 1 forum they will also will be member of the other forum. And if a user status changes on one, it will also change on the other.

Is this possible at all (in moderate difficulty) or would it require so much recoding it wouldn't be worth it. Are there any mods out for this. I searched but couldn't find anything that really works like this.

If not, would this be another option I could explore by making a SQL trigger that will update the user databases with the other forums database every hour or 24h or something along those lines. Or would this cause conflicts in the user table seeing they are 2 different forums. (Given all permissions, Usergroups and the like are the same).

Sure, its possible but vBulletin expects you to to have a licence for each seperate domain you use, even if its all off one installation. If you are willing to get another licence I could point you in the right direction.

Well I don't mind paying for another license given it is possible to be honest. As long the user database for both forums are exactly the same and process the sign ups done on both forums. It's worth paying the extra license fee.