Anyone know a Forum / Message Board software that can do this?
 

I am looking for a forum that I can put in a member's area that uses the same login as the member's username. Most forums require a person to register and login independently. I am looking for one that automatically knows the username of the person and applies it to the forum.

Geez, I hope I explained that well enough.

A programmer can do that for you, my partner just did one for our site.

Yup, need to have something custom written.

Can you put me in touch with this guy? I'd like to do the same.

YARGH! You could modify the script to pull the username pass from your member mysql db. Should be easy enough.

very easy to do

like chio said, just have the forum pull the usernames/passwords from the members are list

I just did this with a oscommerce install, combined oscommerce and phpbb

I'm not familiar with this. And, the site in question is using a .htpasswd file for it's members.

He only works on our stuff but I'm sure Woj could handle it.

Who is Woj, and how do I get in contact with him?

Just look for post #50 in any given thread. You'll find him.

ICQ is 33375924 or woj (at} wojfun [dot] com . Always done excellent work for me.

Thanks. I sent him an email.

Yeah thats not hard to do at all.

We have forums on 25 paysites right now each of them pulling usernames from the main sites members htpassword file and using the same color scheme as the sites members areas whilst sharing all of the same posts :)

Our existing member base is loving the forum, because they seem to think that each site has 100's of members instead of realizing they are posting on one central forum that is shared between 25 paysites :1orglaugh

Still, retention levels are good because of the interactivity the forums added, we just have to make sure they dont realize that they can get access to the community forums for free on a non-paysite domain :winkwink:

Regards,

Lee

Any insight on how to do it?

Yes.

Speak to WOJ :1orglaugh

Or you can email [email protected] too :winkwink:

Regards,

Lee

Thanks. :)

NP :)

Allans lead programmer actually got the user/pass stuff working for us the shared forum posts was easy to setup if you know how to manipulate VBulletin and its template systems :)

Regards,

Lee

I sent emails to both people mentioned in this thread. Hopefully I'll hear back soon.

I've done it several times. I used mysql to do the authentication instead of storing the user info in .htpasswd files. You still use .htaccess but you're using a PHP script to do the work for you.

Google

.htaccess php_value auto_prepend_file

If you want to try to give it a shot yourself.

smart idea, prevents users from signing up twice.

hit me up i can code it for you icq: 156323263

If this is for a member's area, you may want to think about protecting your userbase. If a password trader comes into your forum and the usernames displayed are your actual member's names... they only need to crack your passwords in order to gain access to your member's area & member's personal info, if you make the users register a new username, or even allow guests to post and put the entire forum behind a password that is given to member's only... You will help protect your sensitive data and possibly keep unwanted users out.

Just my 2cs.

This will already be in a member's only area. If a person is seeing the forum, then they will already be in the member's area.

Just for the record, this is not for me, but for a friend. He already has a forum that uses this setup, but it's outdated. He wants a newer one, like phpBB or vBulletin.