Merging two forums?

[Psychdrone]

OK how would one go about this,

as having two forums (of course both are payed for) --duh!!
and the same usernames and passwords, and profiles, and such like that, on both forums??

If you can't answer this on the board, could someone pm,

THanks!

[Scott MacVicar]

as users could have the same username, this would be quite difficult, one of them would need to change. If you were sure that there was no two identical usernames in each of the databases then it wouldn't be that hard, you'd have to issue one of the databases with completely new userid's which would involve editing every row in nearly all the tables, once you had done that then you'd have to give the thread and post tables completely different ID's and then you could merge the two forums.

[Psychdrone]

er....OK i kinda understand about how you would assighn the same ids to the users and user profiles? I think!

Is it alright to install to test boards, to try this out, as long as the public dosn't have acces to them???

And pnn if you have any exratime on your hands would youmind explaing a little more

thanks!

(basicaly I would want to forums, but everytime you post at one. it rasise your post count for both?

[Scott MacVicar]

i thought you meant merging two existing forums together to form one, i think you meant is two forums sharing the same user table?

[Psychdrone]

YES YES there ya go Pnn,

Ok all, I would want, is the post count to be the same at both boards?? How would I do this?

and would it be ok, to install 2 private test boards?

[JamesUS]

Yes you can install 2 testboards. I personally have 2 testboards for each version, which means I have loads of boards installed

If you are starting from an empty forum and want it to share the user database with another board, that isn't particularly difficult to acheive. Basically you need to go through each file that deals with users on one of the forums (ie member.php, usercp.php, global.php, sessions.php, etc) and adjust the queries to the database so that they query the other forum's user table rather than it's own user table.

[Psychdrone]

Thanks buddy James for letting me know!

but um oh I am alittle confused, how would one go about changing the queries? hmm I think I would just want it for the post count

right cause if more was the same at two different boards, then there would be no point in having two forums

Thanks for your help

[Psychdrone]

eh?

[JamesUS]

By postcounts I presume you mean the other user information (profiles etc) as well?

[Psychdrone]

hmm I was aiming for post count only, but I guess that would be inpossible, as it would need the same member profiles, so err I guess I would be going with profiles.....