Harnessing the Power of Open Source

Posted by thepet on Feb 15, 2008 9:26 AM EDT
Indigio Blog; By Ryan Hadley
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Writing a custom app that could use a community bb, developer stumbles upon a ton more functionality added to his app after integrating it with phpBB than expected.

But I wasn’t satisfied. Once you log in to my game you shouldn’t have to log in to phpBB. So I considered modifying phpBB to use my session code… but that looked too daunting. My friend Ben the genius suggested, “I think it’d make more sense to go the other way around - that is, keep phpbb’s aauthentication structure, and just hack tweetwords to use that. Then registration is done for u too :)”.


And much more functionality than just registration.

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