News comments, blog and forum. Username problems.

Using same username across site

[punisa]

Hi,

when we created our news portal site (politcs mainly), we also created a login option so registrated users may comment on the published news.
This all worked well, login form is using php and mysql database.

Now we are trying to incorporate forum and blog into our site. We decided to choose PHPBB3 for forum and WORDPRESS MU for blog solution.
The installation went rather smooth, we managed to include our custom foother and header info into both. But now comes trouble: )

As you all know, both of these solutions have their own login systems (which work great btw), and on top of that we already have our own login system : ) So, we are looking at 3 different login systems now and wish to (of course) use just 1 across entire site.

I tried to google for solution with no luck, I tried wordpress support sites again with no luck.

I know my own code like the back of my hand, but the wordpress-phpbb php codes are really too confusing to me.

I tried to pull some tricks like putting:
include '../www/blog/wp-login.php';
into my main page. Hehe, the results were no good : )

I see many "larger" sites managed to have single user login, so it's definitely doable. But where should I start? Can you recommend further reading or sharing your own experiences ?

Thank you VERY much

[bill]

You may need to rethink your software decision if there aren't solutions available. When I did something similar a few years ago I had to consider the login feature first. That's more important than the forum and portal software in many cases.

In my case I was making an Intranet so a single login was imperative. I went with vBulletin for the forum and Drupal for the portal. I tied them together with a Drupal variant called vbDrupal. It uses vBulletin's user administration system and replaces Drupal's system entirely. This gives you one user administration system that works across the entire site.