[userdan]

There are actually good reasons for learning how to do it yourself, gazzie. For one thing, you learn PHP a lot faster by trial and error.

@alyaly: Sounds like you're talking about a unified login system for both a blog and a forum. That's rather more difficult to do, especially if the user tables for both scripts are different. I did find an easy to follow tutorial on user login systems that you could study for ideas, though. And like gazzie said, you could also check the websites of the blog and forum scripts you're using to see if a bridge is available them.