I think that for sessions it might be easier to use the forums table
and session name in cakephp which are both configurable in core.php

Geoff
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http://lemoncake.wordpress.com

On Jul 23, 10:14 am, cakeFreak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cheers Geoff!
>
> I agree with you that 1 single users table would be better!
>
> What about sessions?
>
> Do you suggest to check if an SMf session exists and then duplicate it
> in cake_session table?
>
> The same fr cookies?
>
> Yep, SMF 2.0 seems promising, and above all MVC!
> But not ooficial release time!
>
> Dan
>
> On Jul 20, 1:14 am, Geoff Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Cake is flexible enough that your user model can use a db table not
> > called users. Use var $useTable = 'smf_users';
>
> > You may have to set up all the associations manually etc.  but I think
> > that while seperate tables might appear easier to start with, it will
> > introduce sync errors and data redundancy and probably give you
> > headaches further doen the track.
>
> > BTW SMF 2.0 looks promising...
>
> > Geoff
> > --http://lemoncake.wordpress.com
>
> > On Jul 20, 4:02 am, cakeFreak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Hey guys,
> > > I'm gonna have to integrate my forthcoming Cake project with a forum.
>
> > > First of all I just wanted to ask your opinion about the best practice
> > > to achieve it:
> > > 1) separated user tables (when 1 user registers with the Cake App it
> > > gets added to the forum user table and vice-versa)
> > > 2) single user table
>
> > > Unluckily (as far as I know) there aren't around forum with an MVC
> > > architecture yet (SMF -http://www.simplemachines.org/-seemswill
> > > move in the MVC direction).
>
> > > I think I'll hopt for SMF.
> > > SMF offers the SSI.php and smf_api.php files to ease integration (in
> > > this case option 2 above will be suitable).
>
> > > What's your general/particular thoughts about forum integration?
>
> > > Dan


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