phpbb/zencart question

[onakat]

thanks.

i have zencart installed in the root directory. i also have phpbb installed in the root directory. both were installed with fanstastico.

there is no nickname field on my registration page.

how do i tell phpbb or zencart to share dbs?

[barco57]

fantastico... If you were to re-install phpBB manually you will be given options when setting up. Just point it at the zen cart DB and give it a different prefix (ie. phpbb_) makes looking stuff up in the db easier. Have you started using phpbb yet, if not go to the phpbb site and download, delete your current board, and upload new phpbb into that directory. you then point your browser at the phpbb install.
To try and do it any other way would be way to much work....though it would be possible to export the current phpbb tables and then import them to the zencart db. just remember use different prefixes for the phpbb tables, but this method would require you edit the phpbb config files to point to the correct db

[barco57]

how do i tell phpbb or zencart to share dbs?

you don't really tell either one that they are sharing a db you just point both to the same DB

[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.