two forums

[Tr1x]

Hi,

I'm using another board system and I'm thinking in moving to vbulletin..

I was wondering if I will run two different vbulletin forums on my site...is it possible to make the registeration one for both forums?
I mean if a guest registered in any of these forum.. he will be registered to the other forum autmaticly and added to the other database..nothing more than this... posts and threads will be different if both forums..

I'm not requestion a hack.. just wondering if this possible..

thanks!

[Andreas]

2 independant Boards sharing the same userbase is difficult to achieve.
There haven been a lot of requests for this, but at least I would be able to write a hack that does this (or at least it would be very complicated).

Furthermore, I think you would need 2 licenses to do so.

[esfron]

It is possible with PhpBB: http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=55

Why not Vbb ?

[Andreas]

Well, in vBulletin the user table holds

• User ID
• Username
• Password
• Primary Usergroup
• Secondary Usergroups
• eMail-Address and Parent eMail-Address (if COPPA-User)
• Style being used
• Homapage URL
• ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo IDs
• User Titel
• Join Date
• Last Activity
• Date/Time of last post
• Number of Posts
• Reputation Level
• Various settings
• ID of Avatar being used (if not custom)
• Flag for showing "You've got a new PM Popup"
• Language being used
• Number of total and unread PMs
• Birthday

Now, if this table is shared between various installation with the methode posted above (which ist of course possible) there will be a lot of problems.
For example the post counter:
You make 1 post in board 1, but as board 2 uses the same table it will also show 1 post .

Or the Style. the User might chose to select style 1 on board 1 and style 2 on board 2 - this isn't possible.

And so on and so on ...

I've just take a look into phpBB user table, and found out that it holds similar information.
So similar problems will occur.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by esfron

It is possible with PhpBB: http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=55

Why not Vbb ?

psst its not vBB(its another board all together infact) its vB

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Tr1x

Hi,

I'm using another board system and I'm thinking in moving to vbulletin..

I was wondering if I will run two different vbulletin forums on my site...is it possible to make the registeration one for both forums?
I mean if a guest registered in any of these forum.. he will be registered to the other forum autmaticly and added to the other database..nothing more than this... posts and threads will be different if both forums..

I'm not requestion a hack.. just wondering if this possible..

thanks!

Is it possible? Yes

I've done it several times in development.

However real world settings would be insane, I couldn't even imagine updating this. IT requires tons and tons and tons of file edits, so insane that a proper version would take at least 40~ mins doing the changes at least.

It would be better handled by another system altogether.

[Andreas]

Originally Posted by Zachery

so insane that a proper version would take at least 40~ mins doing the changes at least.

... if Lt. Cmdr. Data from USS Enterprise does that - maybe.

But for a human being I think it would take longer.

[filburt1]

Originally Posted by esfron

It is possible with PhpBB: http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=55

Why not Vbb ?

It's possible but difficult. phpBB was likely designed with it in mind. vB was intended to have separate user tables for separate forums.

It's easier to modify one instance of vBulletin to appear to be two, but in most cases this also requires two licenses.

[Andreas]

Originally Posted by filburt1

It's possible but difficult. phpBB was likely designed with it in mind.

I doubt so.
From looking at phpbb_users scheme I can see that it holds similar information (post counter, last visit information, pm notofication popup flag, etc.) as vBulletin and thus will have the same problems.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

... if Lt. Cmdr. Data from USS Enterprise does that - maybe.

But for a human being I think it would take longer.

There are alot of things you can do to speed up the process like batch find and replaces in the code via use of a text editor that will do replaces in multiple files.

But you can't do that with everything