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Ehsan Foroughi
Ehsan Foroughi

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Looking for forum engine that is easy to integrate with existing user tables

I have a custom made web-site in Python/MySQL with custom user/session tables and users already using it.

I am looking for forum to integrate with the current site:

Users of the main site should automatically get an account and get logged into forum. They would just pick a different visible name for the forum (no email verification, no password / recovery question, and so on)

I have searched the net for hours. Couldn't find any proper (well maintained, well used) forum code in python to use. So I am ready to resort to running a PHP forum in parallel ...

Any recommendation on which forum to use to avoid a major reverse engineering for the single sign-on and integrated login process? (I am no good in PHP, so I prefer to add code to our site rather than mess around with the PHP codes)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 470

Answers (2)

Ehsan Foroughi
Ehsan Foroughi

Reputation: 3020

I ended up with Simple Machines Forum. It provides a set of integration hooks.

With a bit of php hacking, you can connect it to anything you want.

SMF 2.0 is still in beta, but get much more control on customization. T

Upvotes: 1

jorgebg
jorgebg

Reputation: 6600

Consider Nearforums: it is developed in .NET (C#), it uses a MySQL database, runs on IIS or Apache webservers (thanks to Mono) and your users can sign in with their existing users credentials (You will have to expose a openid provider on your main site). See the full features to see if it fits your requirements.

Disclaimer: I am a developer of nearforums

Upvotes: 0

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