Possible to use IPB forums?

What's the problem there?

So now, 2 years afterwards, can we make Durpal and IPB forum co-exist ???

It's possible to have one members login connection (simultaneous in drupal and ipb forum) ?

to have only one members'page ?

Yes your post was 3 years ago, when you said "improve Drupal's forum module"...
HAHAHAHA

It took 3 years, and Drupal's forum module doesn't even TOUCH IPB or VBulletin. Perhaps it is more secure, or built-in to drupal, but it is not even close to IPB, PHPBB3, or VBulletin. It's so horrible, I can't describe it, I have many drupal sites, and I wouldn't dare use it.

What happened, 3 years and you haven't improved it much have you?

Instead, it would have taken you maybe 2 weeks at most, to integrate them. When I have time, I will make this module myself :), since I know PHP very well. But also having a job making large programs in C++ and running many of the drupal sites I have, it's pretty hard.

Don't get me wrong, I love Drupal, but let's face it, the forum needs a lot of work and improving.

IPB module is pretty simple, just create some options, integrate the registration, integrate the cookie, integrate the login, and then integrate Custom-Profile mod of Drupal into custom-profile options of IPB. Same goes for Vbulletin, but vBulletin kinda sucks because it gets easily hacked.

I think the reason there hasn't been a module however, is maybe as simple as IPB hashing passwords with md5(md5($password) + md5($salt)), and Drupal doing something different, so passwords are kinda different, and some other things like cookies are hard to fix up. However, there are work arounds like, when registering the IPB, just re-md5 the passwords using IPB's script. Plus, I recommend you start off simple, like Just integrate registration, and let each site login themselves maybe.

That issue is marked 'won't fix' which means it's not leaving core any time soon. (After that much discussion, I don't think it will be revived for D7).

The thing that everyone asking for "features" or "integration" seems to forget is that (most) of the development for such modules is done on a volunteer basis. If someone can't do it themselves, then they need to find someone with the ability, and the passion, to make it happen. IPB integration seems to have failed in this regard.

The other option is to pay someone to write the integration. I haven't seen anything posted on drupal.org about this, so again, those who want, don't appear to have tried very hard to find a solution over the last few years.

EDIT: This isn't to say that you won't get any movement on this topic, but it may take significantly more work than you anticipated. A couple of comments on long-dead posts does not usually yield positive results from what I've seen on the site.
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Since most of those saying "you're wasting your time" and "people should use a real forum" never contribute anything toward realizing their opinion I say -- who cares, ignore them.

And I'm not referring to those people actually contributing forum bridges and/or integration modules or code (who generally don't complain and simply create what they need). I'm talking about those that periodically parachute into the d.o forums complaining loudly and often about drupal's core forum but are unwilling to do anything about it.

I know you're not fishing-- but you're doing an amazing job Michelle. Don't let apathetic naysayers dissuade you. The single purpose forum is so 90's -- an integrated forum is indispensable and you've gotten drupal's probably 95% of the way there.

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