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Originally Posted by boiboi

I know this is off-topic, but i'm using your integration as a model for other scripts to be integrated with vbulletin.

Someone I was trying to hire to integrate vb and a community blog script insisted that synching is necessary to sync both the user tables of vb and blog. the sync script would detect changes on either user tables (vb, blog) and will make the updates.

The following is a different blog script from the one i'll be using and this one is integrated with phpbb, but look closely at the instructions. it uses the same principle of synching the user tables instead of ignoring one of user tables like you said.

http://linux1.no/phpbb_drupal/

"The phpBB integration code -drupal_integration.php - the code that checks for a Drupal session and inserts the user (or updates) the phpBB database."

That is a different way of integrating two systems. Which one is better, depends on what you are doing, and what you need.

Sync seems to be easier, (as I can understand) because you dont have to edit/change the way two systems does. They work seperately/independent. You just make two user tables the same at all time (assuming). You can make modification to profile at one or the other place.

This one tends to use one user table (forum user table). you have to go to forum's profile in order to make changes, but you just need one and only one user profile

If your programmer insists on sync, go his way , because he is the one who do the job.