vB3 One member base, multiple forums
 

Hi,

I run djforums.com and am going to be creating re-forums.com. I want all my current members to be members of this new forum and all new members from re-forums.com to be members of djforums.com Basically, the memberbase should be the same but URLs, forums, templates, etc... should be different.

Is there a hack / solution to do this? I did a search and didn't find one.

-carl

This is not that easy to do.
You would have to edit all PHP-Files to have a special prefix for the tables user, userfield and usertextfield.
You would then have to install all forums into the same database using different prefixes - except those 3 tables which must have the same prefix (or none at all).

Furthermore, you will run into problems like usergroups, post counter, last activity,etc.

And you will need multiple licenses.

Would this be possible with vB3 templates?

In one vB install create 2 main forums djforums.com and re-forums.com and create all the respective forums in there. Then depending on the domain name, only show the specific main forum and consider that one the main one?

Or, just create all the forums in one big install and only show the specific forums depending on the domain name.

It would be a real drag if we had to have separate user bases.

why not make it so both domains point to the same set of forums and just create as many forum groups as you want from one install? then if you wanted to, create two more usergroups, one for one subset of forums, the other group for another subset.. make it so they are seperate, so to speak, but all on the same board..

similar to this..

Master Forums
|-Main chat where we all get along like family..
|
|__djforums.com
|__|_general chat forums..
|
|__re-forums.com
|__|_general chat forums..

Something like that.. both usergroups have possibly more permissions in their own forum than the other, depending on what you want to do.. but in main, they are all equal, so to speak.. and now, because they have seperate forumID's, you can have their respective domains point to their respective forums.. at least that's the easy way around all of this, imo..