Answered Multiple sites using the same user table in database?

I have seen posts about this from 7-8 years ago with no solution.

What I am trying to accomplish is having a common user table in the database for multiple Modx installations. This way I can have a common login and not ask users to create multiple accounts.

Is there a config setting I can add to config.inc.php to specify the user table? This would be the simplest and most portable way that I can imagine.

As always I appreciate the help I've gotten here. The Modx community is great!

That's what Contexts are for. Managing multiple domains with a single MODX installation, instead of having multiple installations.

I doubt it. Each MODX site has one DB table listed in the config file and will use it for all tables. I don't know of a way around this.

You could probably write a plugin that updated the other DB table whenever user data changed, but I'm not sure how reliable it would be.

Quote from: BobRay at Jul 03, 2015, 04:30 PM

You could probably write a plugin that updated the other DB table whenever user data changed, but I'm not sure how reliable it would be.

That's kinda what I was thinking originally but then I thought if you could hook the PDO to add a setting in the config file then you could specify a user table that was "outside" the table prefix for a second install. That would probably only be useful in rare situations, that I can't come up with an example for. For me contexts are working fine.

I must be getting old because I forgot you could run multiple domains using contexts, only put Modx development aside for 7 months and forgot a lot of key, important features.

Thanks, Susan, Bob. Enjoy your weekend!