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Guidance on Complete Integration

rjgoodmanrjgoodman
edited December 2011 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

I work for a small .com start up that wants to use Vanilla for the forums for the site. The site is currently under development using PHP/MySql. We already have a database for users, login info, profile pics, etc. Our goal is to integrate Vanilla tightly into the rest of our site with as little bother as possible. I looked at the basic articles about passing login info from our site to vanilla, but I wondered if anyone here who has been down this road could fill me in on how to give a very tight integration, for example, using our profile pics in the forums, integrating the forum profile settings into our own profile pages, etc. Thanks!

Best Answer

  • ToddTodd Vanilla Staff
    Answer ✓

    The SSO library we are recommending is jsConnect. It synchronizes username, email, and photo when a user signs in.

    We don't have anything specifically set up for administrating everything else from your app. I'd recommend the following:

    1. Get your applications set up on the same domain so you can make ajax requests between the two. Vanilla supports cross-domain ajax via jsonp, but I think regular calls will be easier.
    2. Look at how our profile page has class="Popup" which hijacks those links into a popup. You could do something similar on your app's profile page, but request our profile links.
    3. You can remove the links in Vanilla with your theme and css.

Answers

  • ToddTodd Vanilla Staff
    Answer ✓

    The SSO library we are recommending is jsConnect. It synchronizes username, email, and photo when a user signs in.

    We don't have anything specifically set up for administrating everything else from your app. I'd recommend the following:

    1. Get your applications set up on the same domain so you can make ajax requests between the two. Vanilla supports cross-domain ajax via jsonp, but I think regular calls will be easier.
    2. Look at how our profile page has class="Popup" which hijacks those links into a popup. You could do something similar on your app's profile page, but request our profile links.
    3. You can remove the links in Vanilla with your theme and css.
  • lenlilenli

    Is it possible to test this for the hosted solution with Wordpress before upgrading?

    I, and probably others, kind of want to see it working before paying for the small business plan.

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