How to only sync users and not integrate the whole forum?
| Project: | phpBBforum Integration module |
| Version: | 6.x-2.0-beta5 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Hello
I have an existing phpbb 3 installation with 3000 users or so and I would like to use this module on my new Drupal 6 installation.
In the documentation the writer explains how to integrate the forum to Drupal but I would prefer to keep the phpbb forum as it is and only sync/bridge the users.
Meaning :
* An existing user can log in by Drupal's log in block
* He can use the phpbb forum and remain logged in without needing to log in twice from the forum's log in block
* The user's e-mail and rank will be transfered in his drupal profile too and the changes he makes will be reflected in both Drupal's and phpbb's profiles
* A user cannot register to the phpbb forum but he can do it in Drupal. The registered user is recorded (Username, Password, E-mail, Rank) in both Drupal and phpbb's databases
All the above are possible by the phpbbforum module but it also integrates the forum completely inside Drupal
Could you please tell me which parts of the code are needed for doing only the points mentioned above?
Thanks in advance
#1
From what I understand the forum will still operate alone. There's a post about it somewhere about not needing to use the integrated version.
#2
Yes, that's the case
I'd like the forum to operate as a stand-alone engine, with synced users and authorization but not fully integrated to Drupal.
Thanks for your answer but I've been searching the issues for a while and couldn't find the post you mentioned.
Could you be more specific, please, if you happen to remember where it is?
#3
"operate as a stand-alone engine" do you mean that you do not want to have the template integrated? If so, can you not access the forum normally by directly accessing the forum directory?
#4
Yes that's what I mean
I can visit the forum normally through a link but I would like the users and the registrations synced as I mentioned above, in my first post
For now the users must log in and register twice, once for the drupal site and once for the phpbb3 forum
#5
Sorry for the double post
It seems that this module -> http://drupal.org/project/phpbb is doing exactly what I want to achieve
( http://drupal.org/node/44977 )
But the maintenance is long gone and it hasn't got a Drupal 6/phpbb3 version.It is nearly abandoned
Has anyone tried it yet for Drupal 6 and phpbb3?
If not, could anyone help me with the parts of the code I need?
It seems that the code I need is ready but it's just at the wrong places.
Meaning, there is a version for DP5/phpbb3 already published and phpbbforum covers that part for DP6/phpbb3.
I know that the phpbb module is different and that it is not maintained or supported here, but from my perspective the phpbbforum module is has already done more that what I've been looking for.
I could be wrong though..
Thanks again anyway