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By Tiggah on
Hi there,
right now we're already using Drupal for our front page and newsletter management. But with the next site overhaul we may want to "expand" the use of drupal, by bridging it with our phpBB3 based forums. First tests with the "phpbbforum" module where quite promising.
However, at the moment we have a sub-domain based sectioning. example.com for the frontpage, forums.example.com for the forums, wiki.example.com for the wiki and so on...
In the next site revision, we want to introduce some listing for mods and maps, called "vault". So, since the vault would be something more special, we want to put it also into its own sub domain. Nothing special, with Drupals multi-site setup or using the "domain" module. But there is a problem, which really annoys me. The user management.
Due to the bridging, Drupal will get a special role about the user management. The users will only be able to edit their "Major" account data with the Drupal interface. But with a normal multi-site setup and a shared user-table, there would be many ways to get access to the account settings, or?
I mean, users could access/edit their informations on:
* example.com/user
* vault.example.com/user
But for some aesthetic reasons, and to have a "straight line" trough the whole setup, we would like to have a central place where you can edit your account details or view other peoples profile. Something like:
* example.com (Portal Site)
* vault.example.com (Our vault)
* account.example.com (Where people can sign up, change user details and view other peoples profiles)
So, account.example.com is where all user management happen and profiles are linked to, even from example.com and vault.example.com. "vault.example.com/user/" shouldn't be possible, only over the account sub domain.
Is such an setup possible? Probably even with a single-sign-on over these three domains?
I hope that I made a good description of my problem/question :)
Any help or advice is very appreciated.
-- Best regards, Tiggah
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I don't have a solution to
I don't have a solution to your specific problem, so I'm wondering what your motivation is to use PHPBB instead of Drupal's core forum module. I recognize that PHPBB has more functionality, but the integration issues must certainly be a headache, yeah?
I mention this, because I've been looking into it lately myself ( http://www.cognitivesandbox.com/node/1097 ) specifically with vBulletin, MediaWiki and Drupal.
I always stay away from
I always stay away from integrations, but if user management is your only concern perhaps using an openid login might be an option. Also, instead of managing completely separate drupal multisites you may want to look at the http://drupal.org/project/domain module.
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You'd still need to manually
You'd still need to manually log in and out of each separate section of the site. :(