I am trying to find a way to have the visitor log in one to get into the "members" area and from there be able to access the database with out having to log in to the database.
Other scripts in the "members" area ie chat rooms will not need to have a userid and password to access them Once you are loged into the members area.

I hope this makes since to you becouse i just confused myself

Thanks again

I can't speak for Unix, but if you're running DBman on an NT box and your userids for dbman match the users for logging into NT, that should work - in my case, this completely bypasses the login screen for dbman.

Hope this helps

-keienb

This has been discussed before. I believe millsie is working on a login process between DBMAN and other scripts, like UBB.

But there are no solid solutions to date.

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Thanks,
Ill try to tinker with a way to get around it till someone has a solid solution

Thanks for the input

You're welcome.

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A lot would depend on the login process of the external scripts you're using.

If you are using multiple DBMan applications, all you have to do is use the same .pass file and auth directory for each application. That's the easy part.

Coordinating with other scripts is very difficult, because they each have their own "flavor." And most of the scripting you'll find out there on the 'net is so bad that you'll have a much more difficult time figuring out what's going on than with DBMan. (Once again, singing the praises of Alex's programming style. )

I've looked at the script for Ultraboard ( http://www.ub2k.com/ ), and it looks like it would be the easiest one to work with. (It's also free. )

As for chat rooms, that's a whole 'nother ball of wax. It might be possible with a Perl-based chat room. I don't know how the Java-based chat rooms work.


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Until just now, I had forgotten about the chat rooms at www.toolzone.com . They are Perl-based and you would be able to create the login information in a link using DBMan.

You can either use them for free (and have small advertising) or you can pay a small fee every month (and have no advertising).

I know this chat room is something that will work with DBMan. The other advantage is that a lot of ISPs aren't too happy if you have Perl-based chat scripts on your site because they use a lot of resources. This one is remotely hosted, so you don't have to worry about it.


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I have experimented with this, too, and also think Ultraboard would be the BBS of choice to integrate (runs rings around UBB, which I've said in other threads s*cks-- Alex, are you listening???), though their user profile would need substantial re-working to integrate with a DBMan profile DB (yeah, I know... it's on my list of things to do... one day). I'm currently using Robboard because the integration was trivial (no authentication on Robboard to worry about ), but the program is acceptable for only very limited usage. As for chat, I happen to like hearme.com's JavaScript chat configuration, which makes integration with DBMans authentication a breeze. Plus, it is free, is highly configurable (topic/page, site-wide chat, net-wide chat), is voice-enabled, and is also remotely hosted...

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[This message has been edited by oldmoney (edited March 29, 2000).]

I'm actually trying to work out a member only access between Robboard and DBman..

Still considering myself very very new to perl.. Robboard was the simplest script for me to understand.. I downloaded about 15 different scripts to come to this conclusion.. but as I said.. it's the one **I** could understand best.

I figure when I do everntually get it working.. one of you (much better perl gods) will be able to clean it up

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