Connecting forums and blog

[poker158149]

Alright. Hey everyone.

I'm using Simple Machines Forums and Wordpress Blog.

I want my users to be able to register only once - to either the forums or the blog - and be able to log in to the other with the same account without having to re-register.

How can I go about doing this?
Oh, and I already made MySQL databases for each and installed each on their own. Is it possible for me to do what I'm looking for and mix the databases after they've already been made?

I also plan on adding an e-commerce part to my site. Can their accounts connect with this too?

[thewebhostingdi]

It is not possible to sign up only one application and get login on two different applications because the databases for both the applications are different. However, you can try to manually develop the script in such a way that they cannot ask to register either on both your application i.e. in forum or blog.

[criterion9]

You can alter the login process for both applications to use your login authentication. Then you'll also need to edit both signup parts to use your sign up part. You'd also need to change the logout process from each application to use yours as well. Then maintain your table with login credentials and map the appropriate PK values from each user table to a FK in your table. Then make sure to provide both applications with the correct FK value so it can locate the remaining data about the user.

This will require a good bit of data replication every time a user is created, edits their data, or is removed from the application(s).

[thewebhostingdi]

Hi,

Use this forum server plugin on your wordpress in which your users have to register once your blog. Forum users the user database of wordpress:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/forum-server/