Posted by petrolone on April 15, 2009 at 5:56pm
does anyone know of a site that has PHPBB running with Drupal? I'd like to draw a comparison between it and vbDrupal.
thanks,
PetrolOne
does anyone know of a site that has PHPBB running with Drupal? I'd like to draw a comparison between it and vbDrupal.
thanks,
PetrolOne
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Hi, Try mine -
Hi,
Try mine - http://www.f1m.com/main/forum
No anon posting tho...
Eric
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I suppose it depends how
I suppose it depends how integrated you want it. I'm guessing you don't already have a vbulletin install else you wouldn't be looking for another solution. When I made the decision to move my site to Drupal, I was adament that I wasn't going to sacrifice my big userbase from vbulletin. I've stayed clear of vbdrupal because it was overkill for what I wanted, and it's not the stock Drupal installation, so any changes to stock Drupal will take time to filter down to their branch. I also reviewed the Drupal Vb module, which I also chose against.
All I wanted was for users to be able to login on the forums and be logged in on the main site, while maintaining my vbulletin userbase as the main one. I did this in a few simple steps.
So, now whenever a page is loaded in Drupal, it checks whether the user is authenticated in vbulletin, and if so log in their Drupal equivelant user (using the static password we chose). If no vbulletin member is logged in, simply log out the current user from Drupal.
That is the only integration I really wanted, as you can easily create a block to show latest posts yourself using vbulletin external script.
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I don't have an answer to your question since I use the Drupal forums, of course. :) But, if you decide you want to go the vBulletin route, have a look at http://drupal.org/project/drupalvb . That's an add on module rather than a complete fork of Drupal and is maintained by an active member of the community.
Michelle
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