4.0 networking? multiple forums into one?

[championcycle]

i saw a few forums that got together and one forum serves as many. what i mean is 5 forums different sites came together and you can go to everysingle site and log in with the same username etc. how can i do this

example

www.torontonissan.ca

www.son240sx.org different sites same network. id love to do this also

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anyone?

[Videx]

An interesting concept. So I could register at one, and would I immediately be able to log into the next with those same credentials, or would I have to wait until my stuff got sent around?

Sounds complicated. I've never seen a mod that did this.

[championcycle]

it logs you into all instantly one database yeah its pretty cool seen a few sites but cant figure out how to do it

[Videx]

IB is running a lot of car forums these days. I wouldn't be surprised to find these are all on the same server, or use the same server for the db. And of course they have full time programmers accomplishing it.

[Ducks]

What if you configure all forums to use exact same database, wouldn't that be what you are looking for?

[championcycle]

yeah but can you use all 4 forums individually without the same posts being added on each forum when someone posts?

and if you can how? cause i cant find out how to do this to save my life

[mrpaint]

As they share forums between sites, I think they are running all sites in one server or at least share the same database server. And the network forums can be done by using a global_start hook plugin (or something like that) to hide forums in $vbulletin->forumcache based on domains. Make any sense?

[championcycle]

not really lol. ill need someone to do it for me haha..

[gorejos]

will this work with Vbulletin 4.0

[merk_aus]

IBAnders released a mod for 3.8.x that was moved to modification graveyard that did this - it was moved because people couldn't read simple instructions and complained that it wasn't working - however it was they were just slow and couldn't come to grips with it.

I still have it for 3.8.x and am working on porting it over to 4.0 for my site and series of sites it will do everything you are after.

Mainly what it is - there is one forum www.foruma.com; then what this mod allows you to do is set up forumb.com; forumc.com; forumd.com dedicated certain categories to each of the sites.

So what happens you log into forumb.com - it has category 1, 2, 3 - you then go to forumc.com (which has a different style/layout) and on this site it has category 1,4,5,6 and so on.

What this means is behind the scenes (admin panel) it is just one giant forum however when going to the websites it looks like four different websites.

It allows you members to register for one and log into all (because really behind the scenes it is just one giant forum); it allows you to share an off topic/general discussion forum between all of the sites if you want; or announcement forum between all of them.

Was an awesome modification and am hopeful to have it for 4.x for my sites shortly - am just working through slowly as I am not a good coder.