Share users in multiple Joomla websites
We’ve built a small plugin which allows you to have the same user accounts in multiple Joomla websites. This is a great plugin for people/companies that have several products in separated domains and want for example to have one common support website, online store, forums or other.
Currently the plugin requires you to have one master website (this is to manage the users table ID) and if want to implement it with already one website with users you must export the users to the new “slave” websites so that they start all with the same user accounts since the plugin (at this moment) only takes care of new registrations and changes to accounts.
We’re still working a little bit further on it and we’ll release it soon.
The technical requirements for the plugin to work are:
- Joomla !.5.x
- cURL in PHP
To export the users of a current website to the slaves you can use phpMyAdmin for example. We’ll provide a video showing how to do it on release.
To install it you just need to download it and use the Joomla installation tool. By default it’s not enabled so you must then go to the Plugins and select it. Once you’re in it you must set the Master and the Slaves websites. The slaves websites must be separated by commas (,).
Now, you must repeat this to all websites and it’s probably a good thing to have them offline until all is completed.
See the example video below of the plugin working.
Will it work for external systems? Probably we’ll do it, our plans right now is to fix any problems it may have and later we’ll see.
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