Connecting dbases (noob question)

[Lucky Luke]

First of all, I'm a total noob when it comes to programming. Have been working in the Internet biz for several years now but I can't seem to work these things out.

My question:
I have this board, the members are in a database of course and now I'm developing two new sites where people also have to signup for. These sites are all connected with eachother and I think it's pretty stupid when people have to sign up three different times within the same portal. Is it possible to connect these sites to the same dbase? So that people have to sign up only once, and get access to all three programs?

Could really use a little help on this one....

thx in advance for the help

 

[adam_uk]

its possible year

check your forum manufactor and they should be tell you how to do so

i have done it with phpbb and its a matter of connecting to the session manamgnet and pulling out the username and stuff etc

 

[RJ]

It's definately possible. Insall both forums to the same database and have both sites share the same user table. That means all the other tables will have to have different names. It's not too hard to accomplish with PHPBB or IPB because you can specify a different table prefix when installing.

vBulletin is a little trickier because all the table names are hardcoded.

 

[Peter]

1 thing you may have to watch out is that if they are not on the same server / host you may have a problem as alot of hosts only accept connections on localhost to the database.