AW: [IRCServices] using a different database for user auth?

[Georges Berscheid]

Hi,

we are using something similar on our network. We force users to
register their nicks via a web-form and synchronize them using a MySQL
module for services.
For more information please browse the archive and look for a SQL thread
few days ago.

Georges


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Hi,

I have an interesting problem. I maintain the server for a large site
with a forum and fancy java chat system, currently the logins for the
java chat system are linked to the user accounts on the forum, which is
vBulletin. I wrot the login stuff myself in PHP.

We'd like to do away with the java chat system for various reasons, and
possibly like to replace it with an IRC server. One of the main concerns
here is controllung use of nicknames. 

Unfortunately, asking users to create two accounts (one on the forum,
one on the IRC server/services) isn't really an option. I must keep the
IRC services accounts in sync with the forum ones. 

I have noticed that there is an inport function for the accounts used by
Services - I can easily create the XML file from the vBulletin account
data for Services to import, however, how should I keep this updated?
Should I simply have Services import the current account data every hour
or so? 

There are approximately 8,000 accounts on the forum, but I don't expect
that more than 500 or so would create an IRC account.

What is the best way to approach this? While I am more than willing to
code support for something like this myself, I'm afraid my C/C++ skills
are not up to the task at the moment.

Does anyone have any other ideas about how to accomplish this? 

Many thanks,

Charlie

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