I recently had the Threads and PhotoPost areas of my site "integrated". Today I noticed a slight hiccup in the new user registration process. I was wondering how other have gotten around or dealt with this.<br /><br />On the Threads login the fields are labeled “login name” and “password”.<br /><br />On the PhotoPost login the fields are labeled “username” and “password”.<br /><br />This difference in the login process is sure to confuse people (it stumped me for a good 2 hours). <br /><br />If an account has the following details:<br /><br />Login Name: userABC<br />Username: ABC<br />Password: 123456<br /><br />In Threads the user uses “userABC” and “123456” to get in, but in PhotoPost they have to use “ABC” and “123456” to gain access.<br /><br />Is there anything that can be done about this? I was considering taking out the "login" link on the PhotoPost nav since the Threads nav is always there.<br /><br />Thoughts?<br />- G

I didn't know that <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /><br /><br />I'd remove the login for photopost, it uses threads' login info anyways...

Thats weird cause with my integration of Photopost 4.7f and Threads 6.4.1 I can hit logout on the photopost nav bar til the cows come home and it won't log me out as long as I logged into threads first and then if I am logged out and go right to photopost/index.php there is the login on the nav bar but it definitly uses the threads database to validate me cause the photopost user table has absolutley no entries in it.

Yeah, it should all be driven by threads - threads totally handles the login.<br /><br />I guess the issue can come up if you directly visit photopost without being logged in first.<br /><br />Two solutions - <br /><br />- Make them visit and login at Threads first<br />- Modify the login link in photopost to go to the threads login.php page.

Josh on my integration even if I visit photopost first and click the login on the photopost nav bar it still logs me in via threads cause there are no users in the photopost users table...

i'm still having this issue as well, is there a fix for it yet?

For me the PhotoPost login page never worked correctly, so this is what I did:<br /><br /><br />I copied the threads login.php to the photopost directory. Then I just edited the path to main.inc.php and the language file a it worked fine for me. For 6.4, I just added a "../forums/" to the beginning of the path that was in the login.php file I had copied into the PhotoPost directory.

cheers, i'll take a look at doing that

I'm not sure I'm following, but there is one aspect which I should explain - PhotoPost uses the U_UserName field for login where Threads uses the U_LoginName. You can change line 27 in the forums/threads.php to use the other field if you want; however, when I tried to change to this back in version 3.X, I got flack from our Threads users who wanted it back the way it was (which did seem a little confusing to me, but thats what they wanted).<br /><br />If you want both systems to key off the same U_LoginName, you only need change that one line.

and here I have been replacing the whole send_header <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Well, it goes with the whole "Username" prompt (versus Loginname) which is generic to all forum integrations.

One other thing I've done to help this - is modified the query which handles the login to match the U_Username or the Login field - since there are never duplicates of either. This way it works no matter what name they enter.