User management

Samuel

I am not sure this is the correct forum but can you give me your thoughts on breaking apart the User management and the forum databases so that we can use the user management features for our other sites?

For your other sites? I am not sure what you meant for other sites, but you can look at how we manage users in session.asp.

What I mean is that we have other parts of our site that require user management. At the moment each part of the site has its own user management system.

I think some webmasters are in a similar situation. Of the three user management systems ASP Playgrounds is the best It has groups, simple management, custom fields etc...

Rather than build a system to combine all I was wondering if you had considered splitting the user management module out of the admin, so that we could use yours as user management for all users on our site, with the other systems hooking into it, rahter than the other way around.

I think you will need to re-code the user management modules for the other parts of your site to use asppgd' s pgd_members table. Why do they have separate user management system anyway?

You can take the sigma chat script as an example to begin with, as I believe it is good enough for user authentication in most cases. There is another tutorial for the Advanced Edition that deals with group management, which I think is very useful too.

Why do they have separate user management system anyway ?

We have a classified ad system, an email management system and another forum on our site with it' s own user management. I offered this suggestion because the classifieds system has the user management separated from the classifieds database.

Thanks for your advice, we will look at the code examples.