User Share - How does it work

[slinky]

I've seen bridges or integration with vBulletin and Wordpress amongst a few that work sharing users with whmcs. Does this mean that WHMCS becomes the central point for registration login and password modification? Can anyone shed light on this? It would be fine with me but if you have a true user share or bridge, it can be a lot of modification going on if you have more than one script being used, e.g. vb, wordpress, abc, etc. I'm hoping to have 2 or 3 compatible scripts to use with whmcs. The only thing I have seen that integrates is amember, which looks and feels awkward but perhaps it works. Still, I do need something like whmcs.

[jeremyhaber]

From what I can make of it is that if you plan to say share an account on a forum as well. You would have to register them a separate account on the forum using a hook, if one is available for the contact creation.

[slinky]

From what I can make of it is that if you plan to say share an account on a forum as well. You would have to register them a separate account on the forum using a hook, if one is available for the contact creation.

 

I'm confused then - from what I saw there are full user bridges that share the user database. I thought that these bridges are the hook making one registration, probably in WHMCS, the only one necessary. I don't know how this deals with user name as I think WHMCS only uses email address and doesn't use a user name. Perhaps someone can enlighten me on how these user shares work.