Need some advice

[jwebster8]

I'm about to start work on a medium sized website that will have a forum, a blog, and a store.

I'd like it if visitors only had to log in once, and then have access to all three. If I use zencart, will I be able to do this? And are there any forums or blogs that zencart works well with in this respect.

I noticed that Wordpress and zencart have a module for them to work together, but on reading about it I didn't see anything about shared logins.

Any advice or help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Steven300]

I know that Zen Cart can easily integrate with phpBB. Admin can be configured to request visitors to enter a forum nickname on the standard account sign-up page.

[Ripper]

Your users still need to login separately to each section. Integration with phpBB does not include a login session for both at the same time. I tried awhile back, unsuccessfully, to even allow dual logins at the home page of the site. Logging in to one section kicked the login for the other section. From what I was told here, it's most likely due to the extra security added to Zen Cart logins. I'm sure someone with much more encryption experience could probably rewrite the login cookies and everything else that goes along, but I couldn't figure it out.

[jwebster8]

This seems to be a pretty common problem. Somebody has to be working on it.

Is there some reason why this would be inherently impossible?

[Ripper]

It's not impossible, it's just complicated. Each piece of software uses a different process to store login data. It would take quite a bit of work to make them more compatible. Another problem is the cart uses temporary cookies, phpBB can use permanent cookies. You should not convert the cart cookies for obvious reasons.

[jwebster8]

What exactly does the zencart/phpBB merge do? Does it basically allow you to store the logins for both in a single database so that users only have to go through the "new account" stuff once? Or are there other reasons for doing it?