Is anyone from the coding team reading this thread?

Is there something we're all doing wrong?

It seems once you update to the latest version, you lose interaction with PHPBB. I have one old cart system on a protected server that is still able to integrate with the latest version of PHPBB, the other carts that I have "live" no longer can after the latest cart update...

Any help, or even a "Yes, we changed the security and it killed the PHPBB compatibility" would be greatly appreciated. I had one website where all PHPBB registrations were funneled through the cart registration page. I had to manually add a bunch of users to the PHPBB database because they thought they were already members. I even asked about this on the PHPBB forum. After being told it wasn't a PHPBB question, someone finally answered me to tell me nothing in the code for PHPBB should be interfering with the cart at all due to how the username integration was done. It seems to be a Zen Cart issue.

For me, it's no longer a problem. I just made the cart and the forum work together on the sites without the registration crossover, it just requires more work for my visitors, having to register twice on the same site. I do not want to install a portal on any of these sites, even though that was a suggestion for the login issue. The last thing I need is yet another login that may or may not work with the others.