phpbb and wordpress sharing user database and login

  • After doing a lot of searching here on the forums I have come to the conclusion that I am unable to find a suitable answer to my question.

    I’d like to know if it is possible to get wordpress to use phpbb’s user database and have them ‘share’ the login. There seem to be hacks, but they either do a lot more than that (which I’m not searching for) or just part of what I have in mind.

    I’m not talking about how you could make an account for phpbb and wordpress at the same time and have them share a login. I’m talking about how it might be possible to have wordpress just use all the user information of phpbb. Whenever you’d post a comment, wordpress would call on the appropriate table in the phpbb database for usernames, signatures, avatars and the like.

    It seems to me that I am probably not the only one looking for something like this, which is why I am posting it here; hoping someone will say: “This is what I need, too!”

    Anyway, if there are already topics regarding what I have in mind, I’m sorry and feel free to delete this post (if you are a moderator).

    Hopefully someone can offer me some help on this, as I am not very experienced with php and mysql. Though I would be glad to help out.

    Thanks for reading,

    Robin

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  • sounds like you want a wordpress plugin for phpBB, and nope I havent seen anything like that. what youre going to find on this side of the fence would be the opposite, a phpBB plugin for wordpress

    You might want to go check out the phpBB forums for something along those lines. To that end it took me 2 seconds and 1 search to find a wordpress integration mod in development over there.

    search: wordpress (its the second result)

    Thread Starter robinberghuys

    (@robinberghuys)

    I have come to the conclusion that I was not clear enough in my first post. What I was talking about was a wordpress plugin that pretty much disregards wordpress users and uses phpbb’s users tables instead.

    So, instead of calling for information from the table called wp_users, wordpress would call for information from the table called phpbb_users.

    I think this would be easier than writing a plugin that creates two accounts in two tables. However, I am no php expert, so I may be wrong.

    Check out the following:

    https://www.happypoet.com/hackery/

    Trent

    Thread Starter robinberghuys

    (@robinberghuys)

    I did check that out already, but I was unable to find what I was looking for there. About wphpbb it says: “Its main goal is to substitute the comment system of WordPress with the forum system of PHPBB” Which is not what I’m looking for. And the login plugin only lets phpbb and wordpress share a login. Thank you, though.

    WordPress Intergration

    This is just for the logins

    https://happypoet.com/hackery/wphpbb-login/

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