By tomdelonge on

Okay, I want to use phpbb3 and I think there is a module that supports integration with it. Now here comes the questions:

1)Will the user profiles be the same on the website and the forum?

2)For a point system (User Points), will it be able to detect posts on that forum, or only on the Drupal forum?

3)Is there a way for the User Points system to recognize referrals and allocate points accordingly?

If Question 1 works, (The Profiles are the same) then here is the main question of this post.

I'm hoping to have in the user profile a bunch of checkbox fields. Lets say one checkbox is music and one is movies. If the person only has music checked, I want it so that when they visit the forum, only that one is displayed. Perhaps this isn't possible. (Or at least probable).

Another solution I wouldn't mind would be to have a separate forum on each subdomain. Like Music.mysite.com and Movies.mysite.com. If I did that, would every subdomain have to have the forum installed on it? Or can they all just display the forum (on part of the page). Perhaps a solution to this would be to have the "Most recent posts" be displayed on a subdomain, but the entire forum on another. Any ideas. You can ask for more detail. Thanks for any help.

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dwees commented

One problem with using a 3rd party integration tool is that the 3rd party database is separate from your Drupal database. It isn't impossible to draw information into Drupal from an external database, but it is slightly difficult. It also depends on what tools the module that integrates phpbb3 into Drupal provides.

As for the subdomains, I don't know. I usually think of subdomains as being folders on the same computer which are mapped to the domain, in which case sharing information should be easy. Look up 'sharing database information in a multisite installation'.

Dave

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