I've posted this as a ticket in helpdesk, but because it's very urgent and didn't get a response yet, maybe someone would be willing to help me here. We have about 1300 phpbb3 forum members and we want to allow them to pay for an upgrade of their membership using the amember software we bought. We have setup a new group in phpbb3 forum that have access to some extra threads. Then we've created a product in our 1shoppingcart and in amember accordingly. Now, how can our existing forum members purchase this upgrade using amember? We want them to keep their username and password, just to assign them into a new group after the purchase of that upgrade through amemeber. The current situation is, that when existing forum member tries to purchase the upgrade, using his forum's username+e-mail+password, amember says the user already exists. Well of course he exists! But he just wants to upgrade his membership. Right now, the PHPBB3 plugin doesn't seem to do a whole lot for us. Any help would be really appreciated.
Have you already imported the forum users into the amember database? There are some issues with passwords that make integrating an existing site a little tricky. I haven't done one in a little while so cant remember offhand the steps needed but it was cumbersome. I think there where two ways to do it: 1) Import users with amember generating password, rebuild, send out an email via amember with their new password 2) have amember change amember to allow encrypted passwords. - do not rebuild as this will overwrite the passwords in phpbb with junk. David
I've imported users without problems, but phpbb3 uses new password encryption, so the passwords were messed up. Amember support told me that the password import can't be done. They suggested, like you, to generate passwords for the users. But I don't think the users will be happy to have new passwords. My question is, if i were to generete the passwords, and later a user wants to change the password in phpbb forum, will it change the password in amember too and vice versa?
Nope, they need to edit their profile in amember, this will also update the phpbb database. -doesnt work the other way. You'll need to do some minor code editing to redirect them to the amember profile, logoff, and signup. http://amember-phpbb.com/ is my phpbb demo site. David