Hi,
I have a web application up and running with a lot of users. I now want to bring in dolphin to complement the chats, forums, ratings etc while working alongside the rest of the web application. I want to start small, learn about add-ons and modules, and maybe even convert my existing web application to work inside dolphin. But I want it to be the least disruptive process.
Towards that, one of the first things I'm looking at is the way to integrate the login/registration systems of the app with dolphin. When I tried this in the past with phpbb and mediawiki, it was a lot of pain. And I finally was forced to use them as the main login and my software as addon. Now I am analyzing dolphin and I'm sure I'm not the only one with this need and am looking at someone who has already done this successfully.
Since I have already decided to run both on the same server, I think one of the choices I have is to create database triggers that create an entry in my db whenever someone signs up for dolphin. And then shifting to using the session cookies to determine that someone has logged in. The other choice is to modify either my login/register script or dolphins for one to call the other. The third would be to use some sort of API to call from my system into dolphin and my app leading with dolphin state transforming behind the scenes.
Are there other/better ways? If not, which of these makes most sense? Are there articles/how-to's to help with these?
Regards
RK
