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Help understanding forum user integration w/ my website
I have an existing website with a small number of beta users with an already created user authentication and registration system.
I've decided that I'd like there to be a forum that shares users with the existing website. Although I'd like a login on one website to login to the other, the most important thing is that users don't have to register twice in order to encourage participation. I've read a large number of posts on here about integrating websites with vBulletin, and have come away a little uncertain about the best way to proceed. What I wanted to do - Keep existing system: Maintain the existing website's user tables, registration, and authentication system and sync this information with the vBulletin database when changed (it's unclear to me if this is technically a "bridge", but I think so). Pros:
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Second option: use vBulletin's system exclusively Scrap my registration and authentication system and use vBulletin's (probably by including vBulletin files and calling the API from what I can tell). Pros:
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Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I feel that an integrated forum with my website would be a great benefit to the users, but I want to be sure that I do it right, so I appreciate anything that will help me better understand the integration options available to me. |
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Is there maybe a better place I should post this question? I'm fairly new to vBulletin.
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This is the correct place. You may want to do a search on this and even look in the articles forums because I think this has been covered before.
I actually have two user tables on my site. One for vbulletin, the other for my tracker. What I do is when someone registers on my vbulletin site, I added code to also register them on my tracker. They can't ever 'see' the tracker, so I don't need to do the same thing from that end, but I think what you want it to do it both ways.... if they register on your site, you register them on vbulletin also. And, if they register on vbulletin, you register them on your main site also. You'll also need to have login log them into both sites too. |
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