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[Syberius]

Just had a thought, how can this be done if my site is on a subdomain of the main one, but both sites are on the same server?

Syb,

[Xenon]

if you use absolute path's it should work

[Syberius]

Well, the idea was there but not quite that simple.

I have had to copy global.php into the root dir of the site and also copy 4 other files into a new "admin" dir.

Then I had to edit a few SQL queries in the files because the SQL Connection I use for my site is not the same as for the main one.

The setup works but I would prefer to control the sessions via MySQL but I dont know enough about how vbb was coded to do this.

Can you maybe give me some hints and tips on how I can keep a user's session alive on my site using the vbb db tables?

I have good knowledge of php and mysql but my brain just aint ready for reading the vbb code yet!

Thx,

Syb,

[Xenon]

hmm i think a chdir() use before including global.php would have been enough, no need to copy files

hmm, the sessions.php which controlls the vb sessions is a file i never worked with, just take a look at the table sessions of the vb database, every active user is in there with a field lastactivity. just update this field to time() to keep trhe session alive

[Syberius]

That is what I was not sure of, things like session hash had me thrown, so all I have to do is update that table?

Or, that is how it should work in theroy,

Thx,

Syb,

[Xenon]

it should work

just be sure you update the right row