I'm working on a dnn 7 site that has its own custom profile database used to store the user's avatar as well as the users rank for badging. I still use the default dnn database for authentication and authorization but everything else about the user is in my custom database.

What is the best approach for integrating YAF into my site? Should I use the DNN version or the regular version of YAF? Does either version have hooks to allow me utilize my custom db for avatars and badging or do I need to get the source and build myself a custom version ?

Thanks!

Well if you you want to customize it you definitely need to modify the source, but you should use the dnn module. But why use a two separate databases? Dnn has custom profile properties, and also handling for avatars.

I'm aware of DNN's profile properties, but for our application the best approach was to have a separate custom database for the majority of our user's profile information.