advanced message board script suggestions?

rockindie

i'm developing a site which has many pages. i'd like there to be a "user comments" section at the bottom of each page. i could develop this easily by itsself, but then i realized that i'd like to have the usernames/passwords that people sign up to comment be used in the message board aswell.

the thing is that i'm not up to developing a whole message board script by myself just for the sake of people having 1 universal username/password for the site.

does anyone know of any message board script available that would let me implement something like this? i guess if worst comes to worst i could have my comments script check phpBB's user database, it'd get a bit confusing for the users though. any suggestions? thanks

elementaluk

this is pretty easy to do. First goto phpclasses.org and grab the PHPBB login class, now you can log them in to the forum.

Ok its a start...complete merge will take about 2-3 hours including debuggin.

A good start is the phpbb scripts, I think register and login is in the profile.php file.

If you have your own table of users then i'd recommend letting phpbb maintain and control the passwords (due to password changes.)

hope that helps...
-Vince

rockindie

Originally posted by elementaluk
this is pretty easy to do. First goto phpclasses.org and grab the PHPBB login class, now you can log them in to the forum.

Ok its a start...complete merge will take about 2-3 hours including debuggin.

A good start is the phpbb scripts, I think register and login is in the profile.php file.

If you have your own table of users then i'd recommend letting phpbb maintain and control the passwords (due to password changes.)

hope that helps...
-Vince

awesome! thank you very much. i think that phpbb login script will work well. the phpclasses site layout does make me cringe but it's worht it

rockindie

okay i've downloaded it but now i'm a bit confused it, can you clarify how to go about this. do users sign up with my script or with phpbb? does this script allow the users from my db to have phpbb names?

could you anyone give more guidance about how to do this? thank you