Hi,
Unfortunately, it is not going to be a trivial matter to tie everything you listed together. Even VBulletin, for which we have an Auth plugin to Links SQL cannot really be tied into Gossamer Community because it pretty much requires a GT product user database to connect to at this point. We'll be building API's for other third party programs to connect to Gossamer Community's central user database, but that is still down the road.
The Cat pages and the Links section would definitely be candidates to be run by Links SQL, but you'd need two different installations as the fields are likely to be very different. Also, one would require Detailed pages while the other would not.
To integrate the ECards script into Community would require some work, depending on how that program stores its user information and how it handles authentication.
As for the forum, unless you switch over to Gossamer Forum, you will have to wait till we come up with a hook into VBulletin's user database for Gossamer Community. Which might not be far off, we have lots of experience with it now.
In short, what you laid out sounds like the best way to move forward, but the technical obstacles and the costs might prove to be quite high.
Jack.
Unfortunately, it is not going to be a trivial matter to tie everything you listed together. Even VBulletin, for which we have an Auth plugin to Links SQL cannot really be tied into Gossamer Community because it pretty much requires a GT product user database to connect to at this point. We'll be building API's for other third party programs to connect to Gossamer Community's central user database, but that is still down the road.
The Cat pages and the Links section would definitely be candidates to be run by Links SQL, but you'd need two different installations as the fields are likely to be very different. Also, one would require Detailed pages while the other would not.
To integrate the ECards script into Community would require some work, depending on how that program stores its user information and how it handles authentication.
As for the forum, unless you switch over to Gossamer Forum, you will have to wait till we come up with a hook into VBulletin's user database for Gossamer Community. Which might not be far off, we have lots of experience with it now.
In short, what you laid out sounds like the best way to move forward, but the technical obstacles and the costs might prove to be quite high.
Jack.
