chat and forums

i was wanting to add chat and forums to my site, using the same member names that my members have signed up with, can someone tell me if this is possible? and where can i go to get info on how to complete this mission?

thanks in advance

harvey smith
http://www.showmeu.com

This is a great question. Is it possible to integrate vshare and PHPBB for example to use the same usernames?

If not, would you need a custom forum built for vshare or does anyone know of something that might work?

Thanks for any help!

well technically its possible but they would both have to use the same database and so the scripts would have to be modified a lot.

I think the only possible work around then would be manual intervention.

You would have to not allow manual sign ups for the forum, they would have to be admin created or script created.

Then send the user an email saying they can login to the forums with the same login/password they have already set up and give them an option to turn on a cookie to keep them logged in.

Obviously it doesn't scale to the 100,000 user mark very well but if you could batch automate the forum account creation based on information pulled from VShare that might work out nicely. As opposed to ripping all the code apart anyway.

I'd love to hear any of your thoughts on this workaround!