Cheers Geoff! I agree with you that 1 single users table would be better!
What about sessions? Do you suggest to check if an SMf session exists and then duplicate it in cake_session table? The same fr cookies? Yep, SMF 2.0 seems promising, and above all MVC! But not ooficial release time! Dan On Jul 20, 1:14 am, Geoff Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cake is flexible enough that your user model can use a db table not > called users. Use var $useTable = 'smf_users'; > > You may have to set up all the associations manually etc. but I think > that while seperate tables might appear easier to start with, it will > introduce sync errors and data redundancy and probably give you > headaches further doen the track. > > BTW SMF 2.0 looks promising... > > Geoff > --http://lemoncake.wordpress.com > > On Jul 20, 4:02 am, cakeFreak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > I'm gonna have to integrate my forthcoming Cake project with a forum. > > > First of all I just wanted to ask your opinion about the best practice > > to achieve it: > > 1) separated user tables (when 1 user registers with the Cake App it > > gets added to the forum user table and vice-versa) > > 2) single user table > > > Unluckily (as far as I know) there aren't around forum with an MVC > > architecture yet (SMF -http://www.simplemachines.org/-seems will > > move in the MVC direction). > > > I think I'll hopt for SMF. > > SMF offers the SSI.php and smf_api.php files to ease integration (in > > this case option 2 above will be suitable). > > > What's your general/particular thoughts about forum integration? > > > Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
