Sharing Users across 2 or more Mambo sites

Ready · 06.04.2004, 22:49

I have been doing some experimentation in regards to sharing users across 2 or more mambo sites...

1. I have installed 2 mambo sites on seperate virtual hosts, and have pointed them at the same DB.

2. I have Changes the DB prefixs to Site1_ & Site2_, and both sites are happy.

3. I made the users table common_users and have made the changes in the code on both sites to reflect this. (Changed all #__users to common_users.

Problem:

With just the one table shared the individual who registers is only visable on the backend of the respective site they registered on. Thus I am only able to assign groups to a user who registered with that specific site. I know there are several more tables involved in this.

My Question:

If I change the core_acl_aro table over to common_core_acl_aro (make the proper chages in the code to reflec this) will both sites be able to see all users on the backend, and thus allow assigned groups permissions seperate from each other?

*Note Admin ID62 (default install admin) holds Super Admin on both sites with is nice.

kiles · 08.07.2004, 18:51

I use Drupal for one of my sites (http://www.tigersfortomorrow.org) and they have a great feature that allows login into ANY drupal site using a special login format, e.g. kiles@tigersfortomorrow.org. This allows me to login to any Drupal site on the planet without having to register again.

Im sure this does not answer your specific issues with group access but you may want to download Drupal just to see how thats implemented.

Im not Hawking Drupal - Mambo is my preference now. They just have some features I really like. Especially the Book feature that links multiple content pages together in a specific order (a book) with the proper navigation. To do that with Mambo the document must all be on ONE page with page navaigation added. This is no good if you have multiple editors working on different Book sections. Of course - you could just create a Content Section in Mambo but then you have to rely on the Breadcrumb to navigate to the next page. Not very intutitive to Non- Mambers. Would really like to see a mambot that provides a Next and Back link within the content section.