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I have a special scenario currently: I have extended q2a with a booking system. Special members can be booked. The plugin uses many of the provided q2a functions and some tables from the database.

Now I need to "outsource" the booking feature (or let's say "provide") outside of the main domain to another domain: mybookingq2astuff.com

Question is: How can I have all features of the plugin in the other website. With all reading from/writing to database etc.

... what would be the necessary includes in a custom index.php to have q2a running no the other site?

Sidenote: I don't need the questions from qa_posts, no need for a question list. I only need the user-related tables: qa_userpoints, qa_users, qa_usermetas, plus 3 custom plugin tables.

Update: I would also need the login feature since only registered users are supposed to book experts.

I am stuck here, as this is new territory :)

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I think you'll find the answers here: http://www.question2answer.org/external.php
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To be honest: it is just beautiful.

I still cannot believe that you pre-thought so many thinks. My sincere respect to you.
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I have tried the example code provided on the external.php website, it always shows "not logged in". Could it be that the qa_get_logged_in_userid() cannot "see" the login state (i.e. cannot access the session) from the other domain? I read in the net that sessions could be accessed over different domains. However, I am sure cookies cannot be accessed over different domains.

It would be helpful to provide this information on the external.php page.

PS: My recent folder structure
/q2a-domain/
/q2a-domain/external → running at otherdomain.com

So from otherdomain.com I am doing the:
require_once '../qa-include/qa-base.php';
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My main requirement is to call the q2a functions and especially to access the pages created from my plugins.

E.g. q2a-domain/page1 should be accessible via otherdomain.com/page1 - possible?
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Yes, the cookie won't work across domains. You can use QA_COOKIE_DOMAIN in qa-config.php if you have a joint superdomain, but it won't work if there's no connection between the two.
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And it seems that the session cannot be read on the other domain neither?

Plus, any idea how I can make the pages work on the other domain?

Thanks gid.
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Update: I try to map both domains on one. I check if it is the extra domain, then I load another theme file, this way I have some freedom in structure and design while preserving features and database access.
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