Wordpress - Integrating a Forum -- HELP

[pornask]

Can someone help me out on this one. I would like to have a forum script integrated into my WP blog so it all works together as one - same login for both and all of that. I already have a blog running, I'd just need to add forum to it. How do I go about it? Which is a good forum script to use for that?

[CaptainWolfy]

i would recommend you vbulletin if you need safe and complex forum and it's best but i don't think you could integrate that forum into wp, you could just add link to it on your page... and install it at www.domain.com/forum

[pornask]

That's sort of what I want to avoid. Cause this way the users would need to log in sep[arately to the forums and separately to the blog. And would defeate the purpose

[CaptainWolfy]

i guess you could write your own forum using the same db, if you have progragming skills...

[pornask]

I don't think my programming skills are this good

[Lifer]

A forum and wordpress both use a MySQL database.

Since both databases have different element of information, they have different formats. If you have a wordpress database, it would work with a forum and visa versa.

The best thing you can do is install a wordpress site on the server in a wordpress directory with its database and then install a forum in a forum directory and make its database.

Then have a link from one to another.

Then all you have to do is modify the signup script so that it will add the user to each database automatically.

But you will probably need a programmer to modify both the wordpress registration php as well as the forum registration php .

[jo3]

i'd keep the forum seperate. possibly use the forum system for comments, but avoid using the WP user system completely. much easier to handle that way, i'd say.

[dark.designs]

If you'd want SMF forums, I might be able to help. The user accounts would be integrated.

[wicked1]

You can use Wordpress SMF bridge plugin, they users register on WP and are automatically registered on SMF.
It don't get any easier. http://www.freakitude.com/2006/11/04...ss-smf-bridge/