I have a website with an existing user base. Now I would very much like to integrate some sort of forum software onto the site.
Here are the draw backs.
1) Needs to maintain credentials across both systems. (Ie on password updates) I can not expect the user to sign up 2 times.
2) Needs to maintain login session, This will only be logged in from the website.
This "sync" would only need to happen from the main site being the primary data source/login system.
I have looked into a couple I started with PHPBB as it was free and opensource, but I struggled to find an easy way to incorporate the single login that I would need. PHPBB is a big project so yes I could change some stuff around to get it to work but it worries me that PHPBB is such a widely used product that when ever a security patch is released or a flaw is found it would take me for ever to re implement "the auth system" with the updated phpbb code.
Has any one done this before and have some advice. The forum software does not have to be as advanced and phpbb. I am sure that this has been done a few times as it seems like a common request but i can not seem to find resources.
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