cosminburner

Thanks, well, I think I’ve made up my mind. I’ll drop the unique users table thing. I gain one thing, I loose three. :)) I think Mambo pretty much delivers what I need, and integrated with a forum and a blog should be just fine.

As for the rest…
1) already decided to go with SMF. bbPress is way too simple for what I want.
3) still working on this one… think I’ll just make it myself and connect with WP’s users table. Should work this way…
4) Gallery2
5) That’s really not an issue.

The above list was there more to make you guys understand what I try to achieve. The main issue is no. 6.

I know WordPress can do a bunch of stuff, but does only one thing BEST, and that is blogging. I just love WP when it comes to bloging and have no intention to use any other platform, but for the rest…

1) bbPress is waaay to simple for what I want. Heck, Vanilla (though I really like it) is way to simple. vBulletin would be best, I think, but since I decided to go with free soft or make my own, I’ll go with SMF for the forum.
3) don’t know of such a plugin, but I’ll search for it out of pure curiosity. Thanks. Even so, if I manage to make WP and SMF use the same users table, I’ll probably make my own system for this places database.
4) yeah, I’ll probably go with Gallery 2.
5) I know, but this is really not an issue. So I’ll make them myself, without the help of WP.
6) Actually this is what I need with and the reason for this thread, really. So, I’ll have 3 sections that reguire and account: the forum, the blog, and the places database. I don’t want to have different accounts set up for them. I don’t want any sort of “trick” to duplicate accounts (like that WP>SMF plugin by jjallow), I just want an unique users table for all of them. In other words, you register on the site and can then access any section of the portal.

This is my main problem. I know what I should do to achieve this, but I’m still a newbie at PHP & MySQL (I’ve read books and tutorials, but I don’t have experience) so I don’t really know where to start the coding. That’s basically it. The other things I can manage… CSS, HTML, Photoshop (for graphic design) and so on.