I know it seems kind of odd for me to be integrating PHP/mySQL photo gallery with an ASP/MSSQL user forum. However, I've never been able to find an easy way to port my old ASP forum to something like PHPBB. That being said, I am wanting to know what I need to do in order to populate the user information using my existing tables?
New user registration should point to my forum registration.
Logins should track from the forum tables.
I suppose I can pass the information using forms.
Any help is appreciated. I'm a decent ASP programmer and have a general understanding of SQL. I'm rather new to PHP, so that will probably be the tricky part for me. (otherwise I wouldn't be asking for help) =D
Thanks in advance. Coppermine rocks. I paid $100 for some other image gallery that used ASP (Xiglia) several months ago and found it to be lacking the control I needed.
- Rad!
Ahh Good news. I just purchased MSSQL-to-mySQL from https://www.regnow.com. The database is being migrated to mySQL. This was always a difficult part (with the MSSQL blob fields). Maybe I can actually port it to another forum now?
porting the snitz forum to a decent php based forum is the way to go, since integrating coppermine with snitz would require you to create a bridge file for snitz (this is basically a php file that instructs coppermine what bbs tables hold the user and groups data). If you don't manage to convert your snitz board, you might want to try to create a bridge file for snitz (might be an "exoctic" setup though).
GauGau
I've installed SMF and I'm looking into options on how to convert it now. Thank you for the reply.
http://support.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=15521.0