Integrating 3rd-party forum software to member-based website

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Published on 2009-12-05T23:58:07Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 10:43 UTC
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When using some existing forum software in a larger web-site, how easy is it to:

1)Make your site's login functionality log the user into the forum

2)Make your site's registration functionality create forum login data

I suppose in a way it might be easier to ONLY use the forum's database for maintaining users, but that means trusting it with sensitive data.

I'm planning an integration between an existing bespoke desktop app and a new bespoke web-site which should include forums. I don't know which forums will be used but I know the new web functionality won't be PHP-based. I figure that's not a big deal but I'm wondering if forums typically allow configuration of where they look for login data, to avoid duplicating this data into my DB and the forum DB.

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