sub-site forums

[Mr.Jester]

I am not real sure where this should be posted, if in the wrong place, I do appologize.

My question is, will 2.2 support the ability to have a single DB, primarily User tables, for forums on seperate sites?

As examples, http://www.clanbbf.com/index.php We would like to link the forums at http://www.clanbbf.com/x and http://www.clanbbf.com/ps2 to the primary forums. We would settle for just the user tables, but would like to use the same tables/DB for everything. One place for administration, etc.

I don't expect this to be a function, if not, do you have any suggestions for existing mods? or ideas on how difficult this design would be?

[Wert]

I strongly doubt it.

[Viperal2]

I am not real sure where this should be posted, if in the wrong place, I do appologize.

My question is, will 2.2 support the ability to have a single DB, primarily User tables, for forums on seperate sites?

As examples, http://www.clanbbf.com/index.php We would like to link the forums at http://www.clanbbf.com/x and http://www.clanbbf.com/ps2 to the primary forums. We would settle for just the user tables, but would like to use the same tables/DB for everything. One place for administration, etc.

I don't expect this to be a function, if not, do you have any suggestions for existing mods? or ideas on how difficult this design would be?

it is posible to have it on the same db but with different sites.
you can change in common.php with tables you want to share.

eveything sould be ok, but to share the config table you have to modify on of the forums, well just the part that extract and cahes the config table, mainly the setting for cookie domain.

[Mr.Jester]

Thank you for the reply. I had just realized that myself. common.php, the holy grail of what I was trying to accomplish. When combined with the a slightly moded Catagory Alternate Index mod. It allows 100% of the functionality I was looking for.

[Ptirhiik_]

eveything sould be ok

I strongly doubt of that too, because of the users-level caches . I think your advice will drive him in a perfect mess with the forums accesses .

[Mr.Jester]

eveything sould be ok

I strongly doubt of that too, because of the users-level caches . I think your advice will drive him in a perfect mess with the forums accesses .

Thankfully, this is a non-issue. I have 2 vanillia installs of 2.0.10. Sharing the same DB as pointed out above. Session management is working just fine since the DB handles it. =) Cookie info, has to be the same, but otherwise, works like a champ.

[Ptirhiik_]

This will (at least at this time facing 2.1) with phpBB 2.2. Also, I'm far from sure it works like a charm with phpBB 2.0.x : what if you visit one board, close the window, and then visit the second ? I think not much unreaded topics remains ...

[Mr.Jester]

That is true. But, I do think that it falls within acceptable. The 3 sites that I am merging are http://www.clanbbf.com" target="_blank http://www.clanbbf.c/x/forum" target="_blank and http://www.clanbbf.com/ps2" target="_blank

Only the system specific forums will be seperate, so I don't think it will be a real issue. but, thank you for pointing it out. It is something to keep in mind.

[Roberdin]

Why not just have one forum, with three subfora? You can setup different styles and permissions... Even use mod_rewrite to point http://www.clanbbf.com/ps2" target="_blank to http://www.clanbbf.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=3" target="_blank or whatever so that that it is transparent to the viewer.

[Mr.Jester]

The sites and forums already exist and we are trying to keep the change as transparent as possible. With doing it this way, we are able to keep the existing layout with minimal coding changes.

You can see how it will start to work by going to http://eq2.clanbbf.com/forum/" target="_blank
Once I make a few changes to the Catagory/Forum layout, I will be able to have it only display the EQ2 forums. With a few more changes and the integration of the DBs, I will be able to have the XBox and PS2 forums do the same while keeping the existing posts. We also have a set of forums for the leadership that we will have universally displayed.