[thelist] Integrating a discussion forum

[Mark Groen]

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 00:22 -0700, partyarmy wrote:
> I have an existing website with an existing userbase. I'd like to
> integrate a bulletin board system instead of making my own, but can't
> find one that will work with my current setup. phpBB has a plugin that
> will import users from a csv file, but that only works if my userbase
> is static, and I can't really run the plugin everytime a new user
> joins the site. Doesn't seem ideal to have the same users in two
> different databases either.
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to use an existing userbase with phpBB or a
> discussion forum that allows you to use a custom database table for
> storing users?

I've set up Phorum for a client, they love it and I see there is a
discussion on the board about integration with a CMS, and Wordpress too
in another thread:

http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?28,17836

hth!

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cheers,

        Mark