phpBB

Co-operation between Drupal and phpBB Communities

I have used phpBB for a long time and consider it the best GPL bulletin board system available. I wish I could easily integrate it into Drupal driven sites (currently 6.14.)

At first glance the phpBBforum Integration module seems to be the solution for D6; however, after closer examination it does not look very practical due to issues associated with keeping both platforms updated without breaking the site.

As much I love phpBB, I think I may have to go with the Drupal Advanced Forum module in order to get a more usable forum functionality for a site.

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kevcol's picture

Your advice for better forums

I sure love Drupal -- except for the forums, which are pretty weak when compared to Simple Machines Forum or PHPbb. Even with the Advanced Forums module -- which improves things quite a bit -- the forums still come up short.

I'm working on integrating SMF with my Drupal 5 site now, and will look for Drupal 6 solutions in the future, so I'm wondering if anyone has good experience integrating one of these (or another) third-party boards.

Thanks!

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How to import drupal data into phpbb

I'm using the drupal 5.12 and latest phpbb3.0.3. I have used the drupal core forum for quite a long time, now I want to integrate phpbb to my site, so I need to move these old data from drupal to phpbb:

1) Users in the drupal user table.
2) Content in the old forum

Does anyone have any suggestion on how to do this?

Thanks!

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Printing the phpbb3 avatar in page.tpl.php

Is there a way of printing the avatar used in phpbb3 in page.tpl.php if a user is logged in?

Another question while I'm at it... Any way of synchronizing the avatars between drupal and phpbb3?
Couldn't find any information on that on http://drupal.i1media.no/
I'm using Drupal 5x and phpbb3...

Thanks

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User modification in Drupal?

Whenever I try to modify a user with the phpBB integration, when I click to update a member in Drupal into a role, it takes me to one of their user profiles. How can I fix this? Thanks.

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Drupal 6 conversion notes

These are just some notes on the module SpectralDart has converted to Drupal 6. Logins and logouts (= sessions) appear to work fine, just remember to increase phpBB's session lifetime (see instructions, item 4). Changes to the profile (email, password) also appear to work fine, the same is true for the recent topics block.

I haven't tested avatars yet. I'm very tempted to shut down all of phpBB's fancy avatar protection system, since it's a performance hog too, and can be replace with a simple mod_rewrite rule.

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peligrorice's picture

Duplication?

Not sure if I'm in the right place, and I consider myself a smart man, but I am thoroughly confused.

I went looking for the phpBB integration module for Drupal 5.x and I cannot find it? I see the project and appropriate tags in the cvs tree, I can retrieve it from there, but there are no releases on the Drupal project page. Also, it seems that there needs to be some clarification as it seems there is possibly some duplication, why are there two projects that claim to do the same thing:

http://drupal.org/project/phpbb
page edited about one and a half months ago

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Comparison btw. phpbb modules and phpBBforum Integration module

I'm new to phpbb and Drupal integration. I've come across both the phpbb module and the phpBBforum Integration module. Can anyone compare these two modules? Are they complimentary or two ways of doing the same thing?

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Postgresql, Drupal 5.7, phpBB 3.0.0 - creating a new user (at the end of step install_module)

Fresh install this time with Drupal 5.7 and stabile release of phpBB3 forum.

First time i had problems with sequences.
This can be easy done like this:

connect with database:
~ $ psql drupal_db

To view sequence tables:
drupal_db=> \ds

And there i found sequence table that i looking for
drupal_db=> SELECT * FROM drupal_users_uid_seq;

First have to restart it
drupal_db=> ALTER SEQUENCE drupal_users_uid_seq RESTART WITH 1000;
and than fix minimal value

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