Help needed in Connecting SMF and Wordpress database

[addictedinlovewithu]

Hi ,

I want help in connecting SMF and wordpress database

where ever users registers them selves they should get  automatically registered in another

my wordress site

dealsbigdeals.com

forum

dealsbigdeals.com/forum

[margarett]

You need a bridge.
Google for "smf wordpress bridge", it should bring you some results
Specifically, there is one from WP, another in our modsite  (quite old...) and yet another developed by Norv in GitHub.
Plus, you should also find some previous topics about this subject in that same search

[Kindred]

this does beg the question though....   Why?


What are you trying to do with the combination?

because anything that you can do in wordpress can be done within SMF itself

[addictedinlovewithu]

Hi ,

I want to connect two databases because

my main site will be dealsbigdeals.com which i wordpress based

its a deals website
and i also have a forum smf based at dealsbigdeals.com/forum

since registration will be done from main site mainly since its a home page

so i want that the user should be able to login to smf also using the same registration credentials

I have tried few bridge
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsmf/

http://wordpress.org/plugins/smf2wp/

but its does not works for me

Please help me with this

[addictedinlovewithu]

Is there any mod in smf which can do this job

or is there any way in which i can achieve this manually or any way

please guide me with steps

[emanuele]

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=search;basic_search=wordpress

[addictedinlovewithu]

I want master registration system to be wordpress

this mod
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3008

will make smf as master registration system

plz correct me if i am wrong

[emanuele]

If a user doesn't exist in one of the systems when logging in, they will be created automatically

AFAIR the two system are kept in synch.
The login and logout go through SMF.

Out of curiosity: what's the difference between registering with one or the other? The appearance of the page? Some "kind of magic" that WP does and SMF does not do? Something else?

[addictedinlovewithu]

The thing is that my main website has totally different look and forum has totally different look

so when user click on www.dealsbigdeals.com for registration i dont want registration to go thru SMF

same thing applies to SMF also

If users click on SMF registration www.dealsbigdeals.com/forum then i dont want to redirect users to wordpress www.dealsbigdeals.com for registration

Let the user to get registered at any place but what i want is sync between user tables

if one registers at one place then he should get registered automatically at other place

Please help me in achieving this

Thanks

[Kindred]

that's not the way it works.

[amadeos]

But anyway, which is the best way to merge SMF to WordPress?

[Kindred]

the best way is not to do it....

If you plan to base your site around a forum, then use a forum software... anything you can do in wordpress can be done in SMF.

[amadeos]

So, I have two different forums. SMF one and the other one on WordPress, and right now, there is no need for me to keep both separately. So the thing is that I am looking for a way to merge my SMF and WordPress forums and have all my data from SMF transferred to WordPress. Is there any way to do it? (Please, I don't need another questions like, why do I need WordPress forum? Or that anything I can do in WordPress can be done in smf.)

[margarett]

...have all my data from SMF transferred to WordPress.

That is the kind of question that gets you the usual response: "You have to ask them about that". You are asking to import foreign data into WP, they need to assist you in that.

Please note that, even if it was the other way around, it wouldn't be an easy task... It's one thing to import data to a fresh install (and even that, it's not easy...), it's a totally different thing to merge data...

[emanuele]

If you plan to base your site around a forum, then use a forum software... anything you can do in wordpress can be done in SMF.

Well...mostly.
It is also (almost) true the other way around (maybe not so elegant, maybe not so efficiently, but still true).

It is also true that if a forum is the base, but you need a blog, you may want to use what is considered the most effective tool for blogging instead of hacking something that is born to be a forum into a blogging platform (unless you are looking for a single-user, few categories, blog).

Face it: SMF does not have all the supporting tools that WP has. You can't "easily" embed videos, you can't easily attach and embed images, you can't use html unless you are an admin, the WP editor is meant for publishing, the SMF editor is meant for writing (there is a big difference in what you can do with the WP editor compared to what you can do with SMF editor), there is also a completely different workflow (adding tags, adding categories, etc.).

Yes, you *can* use SMF for blogging, I'm not denying that, it's just like the fact you can use WP for a forum.