UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Common registration

How do I integrate Ubb.threads with common site registration ?

There is going to be the only registration place for chat,voting,comments posting etc.

And I'd love to integrate Ubb.threads into this system.

Is there any standard way maybe?

No, there's no standard way.
The simplest way would be to integrate all code from the adduser.php into your existing registration script.
But this wouldn't be a real integration, because the userdata will be stored in seperate places.

In fact I was going to modify all code that deals with DB user information.

Is it gathered in few files maybe ?

The user information is accessed in nearly all scripts, because the user number(primary key) is used in all queries to the user table.
A quick search gets hits in 104 files.
Upgrading to newer versions will be a pain.

What about
1. Change table name where user info is stored to
otherdatabase.my_user_table
2. Remove all registration things from forum itself

Using a table in another database isn't a good idea, cause you'll have to change the databases all the time and you'll need the user id to retrieve the user info.
You could use seperate user tables, but make sure that every user has the same user id in all of them.

Well, I extracted the registration part from user->authenticate() and do_login() functions. I'm going to use them in other scripts. Are there any other places to do with authorization ?

As I got it, the mechanism is simple:
1. user has w3t_id and w3t_mysess -> get data by session and id
2. use has w3t_id and w3t_key -> create new session for the user
3. All other cases (or failed to autehticate in 1,2) ->
(re)login.

Where U_Session is used by the way ?

I believe U_Session is related to the cookie. If you are having something else work as the login for threads, you need to create the cookie as well.

I remember seeing a thread around here somewhere that someone was doing some similar. If you look around you should be able to find it. I'm pretty sure it was fairly detailed.

I tried in vain to look for 'U_Session' in all posts at all forums. Few messages contained nothing useful...

U_Session is also used in logout.php and admin/loginas.php

Well, looks like I got that all from this topic along with
https://www.ubbdev.com/forum/showflat...5/o/all/fpart/1

Thanks for the help, guys!

Glad you got the info you need.