By Sebastian B. on

Hello,

The company i am working for needs a bridge to be built that can adequately integrate the forum system Invision Power Board into Drupal. We are willing to Donate to Drupal in exchange for this module and continued support for it. The module can even be released under an open source license so that it is available and accessible to all users of Drupal.

If any developer or team of developers is interested in starting and maintaining such a project please post in this thread so that we may discuss the details of this project.

Thank You,

Sebastian Baciu

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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alexkb commented

I currently run a fairly large online games network that uses IPB and a basic in-house CMS I wrote, which is built over the top using the accounts (login, cookie, management) system. Though, for quite some time, I've wanted to redo this using Drupal. This is so we can take advantage of some of the really neat drupal features and modules but at the same time use IPB - as to not disturb the communities attachment to the software, and keep all the existing accounts, etc. I guess this is also yours or your clients needs too.

Invision Power Services (IPB authors) are creating their own CMS application, Invisionboard Dynamic, but it keeps getting delayed.. and I doubt it will have any where near half the flexiblility and customisablility as the open source CMS that is Drupal.

Sebastian, are you still interested in this project? Send me a PM, if you are. Thanks.

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jsbthree commented

I've been looking for a way to integrate Drupal and IPB in some basic ways and then build on it from there. The most basic I suppose is sharing membership data.

Thanks

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alexkb commented

Hi jsbthree,

Good to hear there is some interest!

Membership data is definitly what it would entail.. i.e. I wouldn't want to even contemplate doing anything else.. i.e. making IPB posts nodes, for example..

IPB comes with a few different authentication modules which could work to handle the authentication side of things..

The question is how would you handle all the other accounts data: post/node counts, account creation/modify times, email address, etc..