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tfingleton
Starting Member
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 Posted - 09 June 2004 : 22:09:46
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hi, I am working on setting up a forum and using our existing SQL database which keeps information on our organisation members, among other things. We are hoping our online forum will attract somenon-members as well as members. For forum participants we will probably only want them to register a name and email address. Although I assume everyone needs to enter a password, is this correct?
I am wondering what is the best way to add this information to the existing db without it affecting the existing member details? In a separate table? And what's the best process for setting up the forum database? Can I set up a database locally first and then add the tables to the existing online db? Hope these questions make sense!
cheers
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
16655 Posts |
Posted - 09 June 2004 : 22:24:47
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| what are the table names of your existing tables? This forum uses it's own tables with a naming convention like: FORUM_MEMBERS, FORUM_TOPICS, etc... As long as you don't have any tables with these names, you shouldn't have any problems. You can even change the prefix in the config.asp file if you need to (from FORUM_ to whatever you want). The best way to setup the forum is to just use the setup.asp file to install the tables/data to your existing database. |
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jovi
Starting Member
Philippines
3 Posts |
Posted - 06 July 2004 : 04:58:53
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| I have the same situation. We have an existing database for our members. It has also registration, authentication and profile updating for the members. I would to implement your forum as soon as possible. I would like how can I do this. Our site has already a registration, login and profile pages, I would like to eliminate one from yours and use ours. Can this be done? Will it be ok for you? If yes can you email me the details of how shall I do this. If no can you tell me which pages needs to be dealt with and what changes needed to implement your forum? |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
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jovi
Starting Member
Philippines
3 Posts |
Posted - 07 July 2004 : 20:43:49
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to ruirib,
i have pages and scripts that handles the login, registration, profile and member search. can i just redirect the links in the header section so as the user can still use the pages that i developed? i think it will be easier that way. can i eliminate the login part but still retain the logout link. by the way, i have visited the link you put up it was helpful but i cannot post a reply. tnx. |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
26364 Posts |
Posted - 08 July 2004 : 04:48:33
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The problem is not really with your pages. You must realize that Snitz does use user identification info, obtained from login, to know which user is doing what. So it's not a matter of using your pages, it's a matter of ensuring that the code for user identification used by Snitz also works.
The solution discussed in the thread I posted the link for, describes a way to do that. The advantage of that approach is that Snitz is completely unchanged, code and tables, which means that even with new versions of Snitz, your approach would still work. If you change code, however, you need to change any new Snitz version code to get your forum working with that new version.
The link is to an archived post. Archived posts cannot be replied to. If you have questions about it, post them here. |
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