Invision community forums integration with bubble app

smirnovs.edgars · 2024-10-15T11:15:22.812Z

Hi Bubblers

I have a lively forums website. I am looking to add custom functionality to it which I am looking to build using bubble.
I would like to have unified users base for both these parts for a seamless experience.
I am guessing bubble app would be more as an additional addon to my forums. Users would still be kept there, they would register and authorise through forums. Or it could be somehow cross-integrated?
And bubble app would then have its own user table where each would be linked to theirs parent user from invision forums iser database.
Anybody has an experience or a theoretical advice how it could be possibly done? Is Zapier the way? Or not? Or any other?

Thanks!

Keymaker · 2024-10-16T17:39:02.306Z

If I understand your question correctly, you have a third-party forum setup (Invision), for which you’d like Bubble to manage auth (signup/login)?

If so, I don’t have firsthand experience with this. However, I would attempt to connect the auth form to Bubble via a Bubble API endpoint, such that when the Invision signup/login form is submitted, the Bubble API workflow is prompted to sign the user up or log them in. However, this may be tricky if all of the functionality on another platform is dependent upon Bubble’s auth. This would require auth credentials to be present for otherwise restricted actions, so it would be tricky to implement.