Registration Exit Page Defaults to phpBB Forums - Not PhotoPost

[jfxberns]

I am using PhotoPost v5.0.1 and phpBB 2.0.13; the installation went smoothly and all seems to be working well at first blush but...

My web site TravelPhoto.com (http://www.travelphoto.com) is first and foremost a place where people can post their travel photos with some forums that will be made available to users as a secondary feature. This seems to be the reverse of how most people use PhotoPost--they seem to use PhotoPost as an adjunct to their forums.

Since photo sharing is the main purpose of the site, the PhotoPost app is at the root URL http://www.travelphoto.com and the forums are located in a subdirectory http://www.travelphoto.com/forum/

My problem is that I when users are in the PhotoPost app and go to register, they are tossed into the phpBB registration module and when they complete the registration they are dumped into the forum section--which, if they are registering from the main page (PhotoPost) is going to confuse the hell out of them--they have no idea why then suddenly ended up in a discussion forum when they were registering to post photos.

Ideally, I would like users that register from a forum page to return to the forum page--and users who register from a PhotoPost page to return to the PhotoPost main page. (That's how it works when a user logs in AFTER they have registered and that is the most logical way for things to work...)

Can this be done?

If this is NOT possible, a second and equally valid option is to have them return to a neutral page that allows them to click a link to choose what section they want to go (i.e. click here to go to PhotoPost, click here to go to forums).

The third--and least desirable option (but better than just going to the forum index by default)—is to have the registration dump them to the main TravelPhoto.com page (http://www.travelphoto.com/, which is the PhotoPost app) after they finish the registration.

But HOW can we do this?

[b6gm6n]

Hi..

Why use phpBB? it seems surplus to requirements for you, why not use photoposts internat registration system?

-T

[Chuck S]

If you use the phpbb integration they will be required to register in phpbb2 since we use there registration page and thus once they complete registration they will be taken to where the script takes them after the registration which is the forum. You can add a gallery link in the forum to let users get back to the gallery by editing in the templates directory the overall_header.tpl file in phpbb2

[jfxberns]

Does vBulletin offer a better option for delivering the newly registered user to a locatin of my choice--or to the page they were prompted to register?

[b6gm6n]

Hi..

Vbulletin does not unfortunatly, but it's the best board all round, you could of course place a link to your gallery from the forum index in vbulletin, easy to do via vb admin and shows like a forum link on the main index, now when a user registers they will get shunted back to the vbindex but there in all its glory will be your gallery link, one click and they are there!

-T

[jfxberns]

One click is not good enough. It's all about a seamless user experience....

But thanks for the info, it's much appreciated.

[b6gm6n]

seamless as in your sence of the word concerning photopost would be the 'internal' registration system

-T