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I know this is a very old thread, but I am still running 3.0.xx and I need to build a second site which will use the user tables of my first one, so here I am.

I would like to know how the "sessions" are handled. I have some questions here and I would appreciate if someone can answer them for me.

Let's assume two sites, A and B. With this hack, all user information is kept in the "user" table in database A.

A member of site A logs in Site B. Obviously, since the last login time is stored in the shared user table, the last login time entered in the table, will be common for both sites, correct? So if the member comes back after two days and logs in site A, the last login time will be the last login time from his visit in site B. That means that if the user asks to see the new posts since his last visit (for example), the posts shown to him will not be correct, he will miss the posts between the last time he visited site A and the time he visited site B. Am I correct on this? It is of course possible to alter the user table to have separate columns for these time parameters for site A and site B.

Another question: again, let's suppose that a member logs in site B, does some work there and then follows a link to site A. Will he still be logged in in site A or will he need to re-log in in the other site? In other words, how are cookies handled? And what difference will it make if someone uses the "Remember me" checkbox in one site?

Finally a code question: the author suggests that we use a new table prefix for the new database "new_". The changes suggested show an empty table prefix though, for the old database. Shall I assume that wherever it is suggested to replace " . TABLE_PREFIX . " with ".", if one uses a prefix in the old database, he should replace " . TABLE_PREFIX . " with whatever his old table prefix is? I guess one could define something like "USER_TABLE_PREFIX" with the value of the table prefix used in the first site, and do the find and replace operations you suggest?

Again, I am aware this is an old hack, which has already been ported to later vB releases, but since I do not plan to use later releases, and this thing is pressing me, I would certainly appreciate any help you can give me.