Hi,
We have a custom account system used for our main site, and we use vBulletin for our forum, which has no facilities for integration with an external authentication provider. Thus, we have a steady stream of confused customers who don't understand that the forum and the site have separate logins, and they mix up their accounts. This is bad for customers, and puts a constant customer service pressure on us to help them.
Does XenForo allow us to integrate our account system with the forum? Can XenForo call out to an OAUTH provider or any other protocol? We'd just code for whatever is permitted by XenForo.
Secondly, how is it complicated with XenForo to wrap it in a CMS? vBulletin is hostile to anything that tries to wrap it, but our next forum will have to do this. We run entirely containerized (Docker/ECS), and the forum will run on its own server, but will pull in a header and a footer from the main site that will have to be rendered into the forum page. Is this straightforward in XenForo, i.e. could we pull in two static HTML files, then we'd just update them on a cron. Or do we have to spend a month learning the intricacies of coding modules?
Thanks,
Per
We have a custom account system used for our main site, and we use vBulletin for our forum, which has no facilities for integration with an external authentication provider. Thus, we have a steady stream of confused customers who don't understand that the forum and the site have separate logins, and they mix up their accounts. This is bad for customers, and puts a constant customer service pressure on us to help them.
Does XenForo allow us to integrate our account system with the forum? Can XenForo call out to an OAUTH provider or any other protocol? We'd just code for whatever is permitted by XenForo.
Secondly, how is it complicated with XenForo to wrap it in a CMS? vBulletin is hostile to anything that tries to wrap it, but our next forum will have to do this. We run entirely containerized (Docker/ECS), and the forum will run on its own server, but will pull in a header and a footer from the main site that will have to be rendered into the forum page. Is this straightforward in XenForo, i.e. could we pull in two static HTML files, then we'd just update them on a cron. Or do we have to spend a month learning the intricacies of coding modules?
Thanks,
Per
