Hi. I am new here. I have a question. I am not sure if it is possible, but I want to know if there is a way, and if so, how, to have a whole bunch of sites all running on the same CMS and possibly same forums as well and have it where if a user registers on one site, he will be registered on all of them, so that he would not have to register twice?

I got the idea from Cnet and how you only have to register once to login in to any of the sites on their network.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Usually it depends on the software you want to use and if they have compatible databases. Here's a post I found not long ago about integrating different forums with WordPress

The best way to find out if one application is compatible with another is to check their sites. Some popular ones will sooner or later add the functionality to work together. Some won't, though. For those that don't you'll need to do a little custom programming to get the login information in the different databases talking to each other.

I suck at programming, and I would prefer not to use wordpress. Maybe something like joomla, drupal, or maybe something else. I was thinking of possibly using something like this but it still doesn't solve the problem of 1 registration of ultiple sites. http://extensions.joomla.org/compone...723/Itemid,35/

What you want to do will probably need some custom programming by someone in order for it to work. I'm not sure how cnet has things set up, but they likely programmed things to work across sites and could house things on their own servers.

The key to what you're doing is that the database recording all the user login info needs to be accessible to all the sites and they all need to be reading from and writing to the same table(s) within that database.

Do you know anybody who would want to help? Or maybe a place where I could find somebody who would want to do the programming for me and help me set everything up?

Subdreamer allows you to integrate your forum with their CMS...it's worked out great for me personally i can say

But the problem is that I have to integrate the userbases of multiple CMSs on different domains.

You can try spending time in the coding forums here to get to know some of the people here. I'm sure several are up for the challenge. The CMSs you mentioned are all PHP/MySQL so look there.

Whether or not they'll help for free is another issue. I'm not sure if that's what you were looking for, but this is work so you might need to hire for the job.

What you're talking about is something of a big project, and if you don't want to do it yourself I would expect you'd have to hire someone. If you want to do it yourself, all you'd have to do is make sure all the sites were talking to one central user database, which, in all honestly, shouldn't be all that hard.

I'd like to learn how to do something like that where they all talk to the same database, but if I have to hire, I will. I didn't really expect to get a free offer, but that would be welcome:P

They don't even all need to pull from the same database. They can use separate database, but pull the users data from one DB.

Sonicrida I hope I didn't imply you were only looking for free work. I wasn't sure one way or the other and figured I'd mention it.

Lpsider I agree. I think I mentioned above that what needed to be shared was the just the user info, though if I made it sound like you needed to share everything my bad and good catch.

Its okay. I wasn't looking for a free offer. I meant that I expected to have to pay somebody, but that if I got the offer for free, I would take it. Of course I'd be willing to pay. But yeah, I found a tutorial that might be what I am looking for. Is this what you guys are talking about?
http://drupal.org/node/147828

The link looks like just what you need. You'll then need to get the other applications talking to that same table of user info.

Okay, I am going to look into how to do that.