Hello,
What I am trying to do is integrate the Mybb system with Wordpress so far I have archived this with a plugin that's still in it's alpha stages but it's the only option as everything is outdated and does not work 🙁
Anyway, What it does is connects to the Mybb table uses the mybb cookie as the login source for the wordpress site, However it also creates a user in the wordpress users table as will with there password.
First question:
1: say if I had 1 million users and that would then double with 2 million users for example as a worst case, Would that slow down the site having users in both tables
2: It also stores the password in the wordpress table as will and encrypts it in the wordpress method, Would that be more unsecure having the password is two different methods on two different tables.
Please reply as soon as possible so I know where to go with this
1: say if I had 1 million users and that would then double with 2 million users for example as a worst case, Would that slow down the site having users in both tables
Maybe a little due to the way you described the plugin and how it works, but I think your main concern would be the size of the databases, and how that would affect your site.
Spudster said:
2: It also stores the password in the wordpress table as will and encrypts it in the wordpress method, Would that be more unsecure having the password is two different methods on two different tables.
I don't see why it would be any more (un)secure, however you are giving hackers two attempts to get passwords (i.e. if one encryption method proves to difficult to hack, the other method may be easier).
You have a good point there, Would it be better to just disable comments in the mean time :/
It would save issues in the long run..
It doesn't connect directly to both databases when signing It just uses the wordpress table to see what permissions the user has got
-- June 28th, 2014, 10:53 pm --
It needs to be on the wordpress table to read permissions from wordpress but I am modifying wordpress to not create passwords for the wordpress table as Mybb logs users in to the blog anyway.
The plugin is only in Alpha so explains why but it should do the job for now.
-- June 28th, 2014, 11:07 pm --
Just modified wordpress to not save another copy of user password's in it's form more secure 😀
The only issue would be the table but nothing much I can do there as how else would wordpress read permissions.
1: say if I had 1 million users and that would then double with 2 million users for example as a worst case, Would that slow down the site having users in both tables
No it doesn't, having multiple databases may actually help, as you will gain read speed because of redundancy.
you can move the database of website and forum to different servers for each with your setup.
2: It also stores the password in the wordpress table as will and encrypts it in the wordpress method, Would that be more unsecure having the password is two different methods on two different tables.
