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Multiple forums sharing same registration database [message #4321]

Tue, 23 July 2002 13:51

Anonymous

I run my college web server, and we've got a couple of sites both using FUDForum. The two sites are aimed at different subjects, so there is no overlap on users. However, I was planning to implement forums on a college-wide site, which would give rise to some people having to register on two different forums.
While this is no major hardship, it's still a bit messy to my mind. Many people will not have had much internet exposure when they arrive at college, and being overwhelmed with passwords for e-mail and network logins, it seems a bit unfair not to say to them "Register with just one of the forums, then you can post on any of them with the same username/password".
I am in the proces of investigating a dirty hack, but I don't want to bring the whole system crashing down on me, nor do I want the different forums to become too intertwined.
If possible, I would like to be able to have all the forums reference the same membership details but *nothing* else. This would require everything to be in the same database I realise. Would it work if all the tables except the one containing members were prefixed with the forum name, and the DB logins for each forum had permissions set so that they couldn't see the other forums' tables?
It would require some sort of "superadmin" account that could go in and delete/approve/whatever users, but apart from that the admins could work independently on their own forums without affecting the others.

Would this sort of functionality be something we could look forward to in the near future, or shall I experiment?

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		Multiple forums sharing same registration database By: Anonymous on Tue, 23 July 2002 13:51
		Re: Multiple forums sharing same registration database By: Ilia on Tue, 23 July 2002 17:43
		Re: Multiple forums sharing same registration database By: SunLord on Thu, 25 July 2002 02:33
		Re: Multiple forums sharing same registration database By: Ilia on Thu, 25 July 2002 13:32

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