Database Connection

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since i wouldnt exactly call myself a webmaster i would like to have some help with a database issue im going to need to be solved soon, i want to have an account system but there are going to be several different accounts with different permissions (admin, regular user, silver and gold users) and i want it to connect to my forum database so that it can use the logins and give appropriate tags in the forums and give forum permissions and stuff, also i want paypal integrated into this (because gold membership is a paid membership) so once a person pays thier account is automatically upgraded and have instant access insted of me manually creating accounts

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you are going to have to use a script language.you will either use php or perl in aCGI script and you can connect to the database very easily.just check out the forums here on the site with all the information on script languages.basically t is very easy and if you will ust gogle the words, php and mysql, you will find many tutorials that will give you basic information like the how to connect to a database4 and how to make queries. it is really simple so let me know if you have trouble.Goo Luck

[JUDGE_RELIC 0]

Try the Nuke Platinum version offered at:
http://verifymywhois.com/aplus_v1.html

Get the 7.6.b.3 version, not the 7.6.b.4 which is in testing right now.

It has all the stuff you're looking for.

[Houdini 0]

I don't know what forum software you are using but it should allow you to be able to create users groups like you have in your post regular members et cetera and when you have aasgned your members to these special groups which are created through your ACP (Admin Control Panel) then you should be able to have forums that only certain members are allowed into and so forth. It would help to answer your question if the forum software you were using or CMS like PHP-Nuke XOOPS, or Mambo.

[Hercco 0]

I'd recommend installing the forum software first and then studying how user groups are done on it. Then check if there are ready mods available for using PayPal and any other stuff you want/need.Do everything so that the forum supports it; for instance create the user groups through the admin panel. Then mod the system (with ready or self built) mods but always keep in mind that the forums need to work. If you're assigning users who have paid to the "Gold" group, use the assigning function from the forum software. Oh and if you're wondering about programming, most forum systems out there are built using PHP. So if you don't know it and don't wish to learn (which by the way is easy if you know C for example) you propably need outside help. If this is the case I suggest finding a forum software that already has as much of the features you need.