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Shared boards. What would you recommend?

         

cien

5:47 pm on Sep 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi. I have 10 PHPBB boards latest version. I'm trying to decide what's the best way to share login and statistics among the 10 boards.

1. Basically you register in 1 board and you are registered on the rest. You can participate on all boards by loging in on any of them.

2. User statistics like, we have so many users online or registered, you know, those statistics at the bottom of phpbb boards will be shared too. Meaning that all boards will show the same statistics.

What is the best way to do this without compromising performance and headaches?

Should everytime a user register, have replicated all that info to all the boards databases or have one central location? Any good ideas?

What would you do?

cien

5:50 pm on Sep 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Sorry, meant above "What is the best way to do this without compromising performance and minimizing headaches?"

coopster

7:49 pm on Sep 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Administrator 10+ Year Member



Welcome to WebmasterWorld, cien.

If you intend to share information across all the boards it seems only logical that the statistical information be in a shared location. Trying to tie them together across multiple databases and/or tables is probably going to be worse than anything regarding performance and headaches.