2 forums, 1 userbase...
Okay, I have 2 forums and want them to share same userbase.
One forum is my main site, the other is going to be the new version of my webmaster forum.
Reason is, I decided its best to have my main just be for the projects we do.
The webmaster forum, will house the rest.
Right now, the webmaster forum only has cats and boards, and main Armin account, so would like to do this now, before add more content.
However, database work, and such, is not my strong points, so will need help on this, and good instruction.
Re: 2 forums, 1 userbase...
Reply #1 –
you already installed a 2nd (webmaster) forum onto the same db?
Re: 2 forums, 1 userbase...
Reply #3 –
Do they need to synch to the same database and register users at the same time in both forums if new people come there or not? If not, you can just import the database normally and clear out all topics.
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Reply #4 –
that's beyond me
i was thinking copy entire db, rename it for forum#2, repair_settings.php in it's root... end up with a copy of forum#1 and just clean it out and rearrange to suit
Re: 2 forums, 1 userbase...
Reply #8 –
Strange but Multi Elkarte Sub Forum Addon (MESFA) can already do that.
Re: 2 forums, 1 userbase...
Reply #11 –
Assuming you don't need shared authentication (i.e. log into one makes you logged into the other), that would likely be a pain to do cross-domain (cookies are not "shareable", they are domain-specific), what I would do is make one of the two the "master", direct users to that one for registration, and once registration is done, replicate the user to the other database.
How the replication is done... well, you could use the same scheme I used for the "PM to new members" (taking in consideration in 1.0.6 one of the hooks is broken and needs a workaround).
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Reply #14 –
Okay, then explain why one forum has the error, and the other does not, both not disabled.
EDIT: Looks like the calls I did for links caused it. However, I do not know why, as they worked using the scripturl call, yet threw errors.
I changed them to hard coded URL, though, so not big issue, just a curiosity.