[Mediawiki-l] Making media wiki use different user database

[Peter]

you can get a free ipb plugin here:
http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1900 ..., but it has it's
limitations (see the thread for details)
a commercial alternative can be found here: http://www.ipbwiki.com

cheers,
Peter.

On 2/15/07, Richard Hordern <richard at ghz.fr> wrote:
>
> Hello, I am trying to integrate media wiki with my forum so all my forum
> members can access the wiki.
>
> This is what I would like to do :
>
> Use the forum subscription form for my wiki. I want to disactivate the
> wiki subscription page and only use the forum's one and tell the wiki to
> connect to the forum's database in order to authenticate.
>
> I see that there is already a PHPBunn system and that there is a paying
> system to do this with IPB, however I wish to do this hopefully simple
> hack myself so I do not have to pay an annual fee.
>
> What file should I start looking at to try and change this?
>
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