LOTS (more than 2) of forums on diff. domains, ONE centralized UserBase. Possible ???

[alarmclock]

the subject says it all :D

i.e., can this be done with vB? i want to create lots of different forums for different domains BUT i want them to have one centralized userbase. i.e., when a user registers on one board, he/she's an automatic member on all the other boards.

can very easily be done using UBB (needs to be hosted on 1 machine though) but, i want to use vB. (great work John!)

anyone have any idea? how can this be done?

[Wayne Luke]

This could be pretty complicated depending on permissions. The following is just hashing out an idea for you. It is by no means finished research but can be used as a starting point.

1. Create a "Master" Database. It would contain the user's information and forum information about each Forum Group. Change the logon and permission routines to point to this database for user information. Each domain would have a record in Forum Information which would have basics about each forum, permissions and other miscellaneous information.

2. In Each Forum database you will have to create a key that can be used to reference the Forum Group information in the Master Database. You would use this key to pull out user permissions and match them up with specialized forum permissions.

The trickiest part will be synching forum information between the two databases and figuring out how to store privilege information for each individual forum. This project would require major reworking of the forum engine in PHP though.