Question about profile sunchronizations
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I have an admin account along with my regular account in WordPress, and now those same two accounts also exist in my phpBB. I mostly use only my regular account in WordPress, but right now I have been using my admin account in phpBB and the plugin is changing my regular e-mail address in WordPress to my admin e-mail address whenever I do that. That is not a big problem, but it does leave me with duplicate e-mail addresses in WordPress where no two should be the same. So my question: Is it necessary for the plugin to do that? I never use either e-mail address for login.
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you have transfer existent old WP users into phpBB?
Yes, I used the plugin for that and the accounts at the two places are identical.
phpBB is in a sub-folder and its cookies are set for the entire domain, so logging in and out with single-sign-on is working perfectly. But if I am logged in with one account at both sites and then change the active account at either site, something is changing the active WordPress account’s e-mail address to match the one for the active phpBB account.
The first time I noticed that, I tried correcting it at the WordPress Dashboard but my change was immediately re-changed back to the duplication. At that point I logged out of both sites and changed the address manually by using phpMyAdmin…but then it all happened again the next time I used different accounts at the two sites.
To add just a little more here…
After having that problem of one WordPress account’s e-mail address being changed even though that made it a duplicate, I later discovered both accounts I am talking about here had lost their Founder status in phpBB. I had to use phpMyAdmin to fix that, and now today I have discovered the account that had its address changed in WordPress had again lost its Founder status that last time its address had been changed before I had discovered any of this was going on.
hello, 2 questions (so i will test and fix) to reproduce.
Scenario when your integration have start:
1) default install admins (id1 WP id2 phpBB), were available into both WP and phpBB, and with same email address? The transfer has been done for old WP users and so each phpbB user, except id2 (id1 in WP) that while transfer is done is skipped, are updated if there is another phpBB username, his account has been updated with same email of WP (and pass)?
The integration require you no allow re-use email in phpBB for different accounts. It is important that when integration start email are linked in the same way for all phpBB and WP users. OK we will add a trick to resolve this (i think) very possible problem.1) default install admins (id1 WP id2 phpBB), were available into both WP and phpBB…
No. The default WP admin was deleted as a security measure a very long time ago.
The transfer has been done for old WP users…
Yes.
…and so each phpbB user, except id2 (id1 in WP) that while transfer is done is skipped, are updated if there is another phpBB username, his account has been updated with same email of WP (and pass)?
I had not mentioned this before, but maybe that skipping is why I had to do some manual editing (one or more passwords, as I recall) after the transfer in order to make my two admin accounts match like they should. In any case and with some edits for security, here is what I have:
WordPress | ID: 81 | user_login: memsadmin | e-mail: [email protected] | display_name: members | | ID: 2 | user_login: useradmin | e-mail: [email protected] | display_name: leejosepho | phpBB | user_id: 2 | username: memsadmin | e-mail: [email protected] | screen_name: members | | user_id: 322 | username: useradmin | e-mail: [email protected] | screen_name: leejosepho |Everything is fine as long as I use the same account when logged in at both sites, but then ‘[email protected]’ gets changed to ‘[email protected]’ in WordPress whenever I use either account at either site while also using the other account at the other site.
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