MySQL Listers,
I already asked this question on phpBB's own forums, but no one
seems inclined to answer me. I'm hoping there might be more charitable
souls here on this list.
My question is that I want use phpBB because I am satisfied with
it's overall functionality and usability. However, it sets up it's own
series of tables in one's database which are a little complicated. I'm
sure they are sensibly laid out, but I am a relative newcomer to MySQL,
so their usage is opaque to me.
What I want to do is integrate the user accounts within phpBB
with the user data that I have already collected so far. I have a site
that's been up for a few years and it has user accounts where they store
contact and profile information. I'd like those same users to be able to
log into phpBB with the same username and password that they have always
been using.
I thought one thing I could do is try and find the table that
stores phpBB's usernames and passwords, and extend those to include the
user data that I have already. But I know enough to know that it is
unlikely to be as simple as that. For example, I thought I read
somewhere that phpBB uses a different hashing algorithm to encrypt it's
passwords.
Has anyone here been through a process like this before? Can
anyone offer some tips and warnings about attempting this?
--
Yoroshiku!
Dave G
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