Hi community,
I am planning to launch a website but I also want to have a forum. It is known that forums have their own user registration procedure and user access levels. I also want to have user registration and specific access levels for my site. My question is how to implement/integrate the forum into my website? Should I rely on the forum registration only and somehow integrate it into my app. I can probably create model for the forum user’s table and use it in my app to get my custom access levels. I also want when user is logged into the forum to be automatically logged into my site and vice versa.
What would be the best approach? to have two separate user tables or just use the forum’s one (not sure if that would be easy and straight forward). I would like to hear from people who have already faced similar situation and what would they advise me.
Thanks in advance,
bettor