CMS Made Simple Forums

So I've installed CMS Made Simple and everything looks great.  But now I want to add a forum to the site so that if people sign up to be a member at the forum, that means that they automatically become a member at the site and not just the forum.  So I was thinking to do this, I would need to link PunBB with CMS Made Simple.  Problem is, I'm not sure how to do it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!  I need help ASAP (my final project is due Friday!!!)!

I can't tell from your message if you have installed the PunBB module.  If you haven't, visit the "Development" section of this site, click "Modules" and then "Forums and Guestbooks". There's a module there called "PunBB / Protected Pages".

Download it, unzip it into the "modules" directory within CMSMS, and then, from the Admin page, go to Extensions, then Modules, and click Install. A really great feature of CMSMS is modules have built-in help, which is usually thorough enough.

I'm sure there are already questions in this forum about the PunBB module, so if you are still stuck, try searching there.

Hope this helps!
Michael

Thank you sooo much!  You're a lifesaver!