phpbb/zencart question

[onakat]

barco57...thanks. i will delete current installation of phpbb and do as you say. will post back after i am done.

[onakat]

installed phpbb2 using their install script. on the install form, i said to use the zen cart db with prefix of phpBB_.

i verified that the phpbb-specific tables were indeed created.

now i assumed that i could use my zencart id/pw with phpbb. but it is not working.

additionally, i am now unable to login as the admin for phpbb.

about to give it up.

[onakat]

i am now being presented with the nickname field when i register a user .

is there a way for a user to change this nickname or for me to retroactively give somebody a phpbb nickname?

[barco57]

not really. Our store was up for a month or so before we integrated phpbb. Only customers that registered with the store after that had the ability to add nickname. Older customers had to go to the board and register there. The board uses the nickname as the user for sign in not the email address like the cart uses. Its really not an integration so much as its another way to get people to register for the BB. You could possibly edit the tables in DB to add nicknames to older customers but I found its easier to just advertise the board on the store and let those with the desire to join the board go and register themselves. I wish it worked in reverse register on BB and it would pass info to the cart, but it would look funny to have the BB ask for all that info. What can be a problem is those that forget that they gave a nickname for the BB when they registered for the cart, and they go to the BB and register there and try to use the same nickname. Oh well not everything is perfect.

[onakat]

right. somehow i assumed that it would be a tighter integration but like you said nothing is perfect. thanks again for all of your suggestions and help.