Hi Arkepp,
I've been very busy lately and didn'T get much chance to look into what has been done. I was wondering if you had the chance to take a look into the fixes/changes I have submitted and if you had the chance to integrate them into a new package available to download?
I've taken a look into the profiles support for phpbb and durpal. Also have seen the issue with Gallery2. I was thinking that, its impossible to support profile changes for every module that has its own user profile system. Its common sense that every module creator should be responsible to support profile changes from drupal to their module and from their module to drupal. Given that every module has its own profile details, the minimum requirement is to support password and username changes. Avatars would be a nice to have as far as I am concerned and I would be more inclined into having them in 2 seperate directories. The reason I believe it would be best is, maybe the Gallery2 module developper will not think of setting a common directory for avatars for example. I don't know if you follow what I am trying to say here. It all comes down to, should we remove the part in the installation instructions where we make a shared avatars directory for both drupal and phpbb? I am starting to think its not really worth the headache.. Let me know what you think..
Last but not least. Could you direct me to the list of things to do so I can take a look at what needs to be worked on for the module?
Cheers
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I may have dropped the ball
I may have dropped the ball on this one, or it could have ended up in a spam filter :(
When did you send those patches? to my Gmail account?
The todo list is basically still the points in http://groups.drupal.org/node/9318 , unless I missed a patch for those.
I'm not directly opposed to stop sharing avatars... off the top of my head I am not convinced it makes life easier, because we would still have to copy files around and fool around with the avatar salt. I see your point...
I'm a little tempted to hack phpBB more and just use Drupal's avatars directly. I'm really annoyed they put all the salt in there.
I agree
I agree with you. There are many ways to look at the problem. Like you just said, they could have made it modular where you either use PHPBB's profile system or the one from Drupal for example.. That way, all they would need is a user Id that would be used to access another table's more complete data in Drupal lets say..
I know JOOMLA has been integrated with phpbb and they worked together to get this done. I wonder if they came up with such a system.. We would need to find out.
I agree that you would have an overhead of files if you support profiles in drupal and in phpbb and in every other web program with profiles. So I see your point just as much as you see mind. I just wonder if its worth all the trouble.. And even if we could hack the forum code, still doesn't change the fact that other programs might now make it so easy... It will just get a nightmare if they decide to change the way they do things.. But yeah, a forum system is more of a need to a website than a gallery (gallery2) lets say..
I'll send you my files again.. just send me an email to my spectraldart account to know which EMAIL I can use to submit all of the code and you can do the diff yourself with the program of your choice.. And let me know what you really want to do with the profiles because we need to take on a direction.. Lets just put down all the pros and cons. It usually helps to see the light :)