IPBlink - Drupal to Invision Power Board link... nearly ready!

Posted by modaco on January 19, 2007 at 2:33pm

Hi all!

Just thought i'd post a little note letting people know that my first ever Drupal module (i've only recently started using Drupal), will soon be ready for upload!

Using the Drupal FUDforum module as inspiration, IPBlink allows users to log in to your Drupal site using an Invision Power Board database as the back end. Email and Password changes are automatically synced between the two, as are a few other additional custom fields.

Custom blocks for forum statistics, latest forum posts and online users are already working, with top x posters, latest downloads and a number of other blocks to follow shortly.

You can see the system up and running on my test area at http://www.MoDaCo.com/drupal - this is integrating with my www.MoDaCo.com back end. The system will also be up and running on my blog (http://www.PaulOBrien.net) in the near future.

A couple of things I want to fix before I make the first development release (and I don't actually know how I release a module?):

- Pass new user signups back from Drupal to IPB
- Only show recent topics from 'public' areas (currently shows from everywhere)
- Reset to 'validating' of IPB account when e-mail is changed

Other planned features before a 1.0 release

- More granularity of number of recent posts shown etc.

That's all I can remember of the top of my head... but the bulk of the work is done, and it's looking great! (IMHO).

The only question that remains to be asked... does anyone actually want it other than me? :-D

PS One other thing... any additional requests?

Comments

Erk

Posted by modaco on January 19, 2007 at 2:38pm

Doh... over-bold... should have previewed first!

Can I not edit my posts? :-(

bold

Posted by greggles on January 19, 2007 at 4:33pm

I "fixed" it. If I fixed it in the wrong spot just post a followup comment and I can fix again. I'm not sure about editing your own posts, I guess not.

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Fixed

Posted by modaco on January 19, 2007 at 4:45pm

That looks fine now, ta!

I'm interested!

Posted by cr4zyguy on January 26, 2007 at 3:39am

Yes, I'll be interested in this module! Invision is one of my more preferred forum softwares. I had to 'downgrade' to PHPBB when I migrated my site over to Drupal after thoroughly weighing the pros and cons but many of my users have complained that it is less user-friendly. If you need some beta testing for this module, I'm on!

Yes!

Posted by greatwhitebuffalo on January 30, 2007 at 8:14pm

I'd be very interested in this. Considering moving a current site into Drupal and would love to be able to get the 4000 users we have under IPB set up seamlessly. Let me know when this will be ready and if I can help you test it in any way.

Thanks!

Awesome!

Posted by SludgeMeister on January 31, 2007 at 3:50pm

This is looking just great!

I've tested it a little and will certainly be using it.

One request - How likely it is I'm unsure - The new Profile System within IPB is the number 1 reason I dumped vBulletin for it. Is there anyway to integrate this with Drupal in some way?

The intent for my site is to have user driven content - So nearly all the articles are going to be submitted by the frontend user - I'd like their "author name" (which is present on the bottom of each of their submitted articles) linked directly to their IPB Profile (rather than Drupal's).

Expanding on this, having a module that shows a random profile (picture etc.) would also be fantastic.

I find one of the strongest points of IPB is now the Profile System, and I am aware of many people now utilising it purely for the myspace'esque profile system - Having this work seamlessly with Drupal would surelly enchance the who experience for Drupal > IPB Bridges.

Also, within IPB Profiles, there is now a sort of "blog system"...There are a series of tabs that allow users to access different aspects of the IPB Profile, one is for Blog, the other is for IPB Posts etc....Having a tab for content the user has submitted to Drupal would be great.

If any of the above can be acheived, it would be truly fantastic!

Thanks for your work so far on this, Its very much appreciated.

Tom

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any news?

Posted by fanta on February 4, 2007 at 11:03am

is this available for download anywhere?

Very interested!

Posted by flyfishr64 on February 5, 2007 at 9:06pm

This looks very nice, I have a client who wants to integrate his website with invision. He's upgrading to drupal 5.1; once that is done he wants to deploy invision.

Any idea when this is going to be released? I'd be happy to help out if you need it.

Hi Modaco,Yes, I would be

Posted by alexkb on February 22, 2007 at 3:36am

Hi Modaco,

Yes, I would be very interested in this module, as previously discussed here: Invision Power Board Integration.

In regards to "Pass new user signups back from Drupal to IPB" - just a suggestion, but rather then writing something to do this, why not force all signups to be processed by one or the other ?

Also, I'm curious to know how you are doing the auth in drupal - is it using the ipb auth external classes, or IPConverge (via xmlrpc) or some other way.

Any idea when it will be released? I would be very happy to assist with testing/debugging.

Blog: akb.id.au | Twitter: @alexbergin

Any news about this project?

Posted by gulize on February 28, 2007 at 2:21am

Hello,
Any news about this project?

Guliza, we wish.. I emailed

Posted by alexkb on February 28, 2007 at 5:48am

Guliza, we wish..

I emailed Paul a few days ago, but as yet, still no response..

He hasn't posted anything on his blog for a while, so its possible he's busy with real life things.. one can only guess/assume..

Perhaps the eager people should discuss how one might implement such a module..

Blog: akb.id.au | Twitter: @alexbergin

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Posted by Elemental Crisis on May 18, 2009 at 11:27am

For those looking for a module to bridge IPB and Drupal.

http://projects.pc-intern.com/index.php?showtopic=7966&st=0&gopid=218214...