I have implemented the phpBB3 plugin and it's working fine. There are a couple of hangups, though, that I'd like to work around. 1. Logging out of the message board doesn't log users out of the site. Is there a way to make this happen? 2. Users with special characters (&) in their passwords are accepted by aMember but apparently not by phpBB3. The pass-thru from my site via aMember into the message board works fine, but if a user signs out of the forum, they cannot sign back in. There's no way for me to prevent those characters in aMember passwords and no way to allow them in phpBB3, as far as I can tell. Any ideas on a workaround? Thanks! renee
I'm not sure on 1(haven't experienced that issue) but on 2 it seems a bit backwards. in phpBB3 you can have it accept all characters if you want and you'll find it in the ACP->board configuration->Limit username chars: There are several options to choose from. aMember by default only allows for alphanumeric characters and you have the option to include spaces or not in the global settings...aMember can be altered to include other characters but you have to alter the code to do so. You are, btw, much better off not allowing users to use special characters in their usernames for a host of reasons, imo.
To log out in aMember you will have to change the logout link in phpBB3 so that it points to the aMember logout page. Is there a reason that they need to log into the BB to start with? If you put BB in a protected, by aMember, folder then they will not be able to access it except via aMember. With regard to special characters always remember that some can be used to hack into the database and take control of your site!!