PHP forum / external login

From: Egon Schneider (metalmasterx_at_gmx.de)
Date: 03/25/04 

Date: 25 Mar 2004 03:18:31 -0800

Hi *,

I have a a website running for a bunch of people, written in PHP.
Everyone has it's own login, I use some session-based authentication
mechanism and a MySQL database for storing the users / passwords /
....

Now I'd like to integrate some 3rd-party-forum into this site,
something like phpBB or similar , could also be a more simple one, it
really doesn't matter. But the point is, I don't want that my users
have to login twice, once for my site, and a second time for the
forum. I want to have the forum and my site share the same (existing)
user database.

So I need an (existing), preferably GPL'ed, preferably PHP-based forum
software with some kind of external login (e.g., using cookies, PHP
sessions, $PHP_AUTH_USER, or whatever). Sure, I could hack one, but
isn't there a better solution?

Does anyone of you such a forum? Please let me know...

Thanks,
Egon Schneider.

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