[Logician]

I believe I understood you quite well. Actually this is why I insist on my solution because what you are proposing is way harder than it seems to you.

Let's concentrate on my solution for a minute: What's your reservations on my hack and what do you think you cant do it in my hack while you can do in your method if you can apply? Enlist them and let me cure your worries.

As for styles or Arabic templates, both solutions are same. You planned to create an arabic style set in your method, and in my solution I propose the same solution. Create a new style for arabic and apply to Arabic forums. Actually you can modify my code so that while the hack changes user's usergroup, it changes his default style too, so when user clicks the "Arabic" link in the header he will start browsing the forum in your Arabic style too.

As for "unregistered" user it's upto you how they see your board. All you have to do is to apply a default style set for your forum and configure "guest"s board permisssions according to your wish. You can make guest see which ever forums you want and in whichever template set you like.

Any other worries?

You might not want to apply my solution but you can not apply your method either. It wouldnt be possible to have 2 different database's and 1 shared user table unless you create a very sophisticated hack which would be very hard to develop. Unless what you think, it's not only registration.php that changes user's details in user table: Say user A in arabic board added someone to his ignore list. How do you plan to handle this request? (FYI. ignore lists are saved in "user" table), same applies someone sends a pm to someone else (pm popup warning is saved in user table), and there are way a lot of other incidents that you should deal with.

To handle them, you cant simply make second board use first board's user table. Because it requires way too much hacking. User table is referenced in many places in many vb script. Your best bet would be program a script that will make replication. This is still hard to code and really a few people can handle this project. Besides even this might not be very handy and there are still some other tackles in this method. Check the discussion here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ht=replication

Considering the simplicity of my solution, believe me you wouldnt want to embark upon your way..