Hi, i have domain such as www.xxxxxx.com and want to setup a script of forum which will be www.xxxxxx.com/vb and setup more than forum such vb1 , vb2 , vb3 ,..etc. all of those forums i want them on the same database .. For clarification : www.xxxxxx.com/vb >>>> For movies,songs,stories,poetry,programs,...,etc. www.xxxxxx.com/vb1 >>> For Google,Yahoo,Microsoft,other Internet Companies,..,etc. www.xxxxxx.com/vb2 >>> For science,students,Scientific articles,...,etc. and want member how register in such www.xxxxxx.com/vb can login any another forums which i mentioned before WITHOUT further registration on each of them! Can i?
There shouldn't be any limit to the number of forums you can connect to the same database, but just out of curiousity, why not make it all one forum with different sub-categories for these parts?
Because each of forum is contain more categories and what i mentioned is such sample from more sub-forum ! and what i mentioned is such an example for clarification not real forums,and each of forum is related to it`s self , please help me if i can do that ?
Also think one forum is the way to go. The 10 forum method is painful, would require heavy kicking of the login script for starters, querying post amount across 10 forums and would be a massive amount of duped tables. Would have a play with the forum listing page. Sounds like you just need certain forums / cats appearing in different parts of the site. One extra value in the forum categories table,forum listings page calls that value and maybe an extra table for area specific data. Definitely the easier way to go and the way would personally go about solving the problem.
If its a custom made forum CMS, its very easy, just create a single database, the connect to the DB as usual, then create separate tables for different forums but create only a single table for users for them to be able to access different forums.
Not really sure what you mean by this. Forums are designed as tree structures already. What you are describing is simply a forum tree with a "invisible" base. If you want, just make 1 forum and a custom home page with links to the "separate" forums. In reality, those links would just lead to the individual categories that hold their respective subforums. Essentially, your custom homepage would really just be a custom forum-main. Not really sure how else to explain that, but it really doesn't seem like you need multiple forums installed.