So I'm reading on this module and it seems great, the default forums, to me, don't cut it and I like what this can do, but here are my questions.
*Since there will always be the forum profile and the Drupal profile, could there be a way that in the forums something is automatically included in the forum profiles for a user directing people to their Drupal site profile? So if the user is bob, under their name in a forum post, or viewing their profile on the forum there would be a button for you to click to go to the Drupal profile, which would be www.site.com/users/bob
*I have yet to really figure it out, but it seems that avatars are not synched up, is it being planned to allow the upload of one avatar, either on the forums or Drupal profile would mirror it on the other side? I would personally not mind if users had to upload an avatar for their forums separate to the Drupal account, but I do want them to have avatars for their Drupal accounts to go next to blog comment.
*We need to have a gallery option, and need for users to be able to comment on images, with their names linking to their accounts at www.site.com/users/bob I saw this post (http://groups.drupal.org/node/10031) on the situation, I am curious as to what the best way is to go about this, since we're in a situation to make things really complicated wanting to have one profile made allowing you to have full fledged profiles in Drupal, comment in phppbb forums and comment on Gallery/Gallery2 images as well as blog posts, all with one account.
*Would it be advisable to go ahead installing Mods for the forums?
*Is this module too much in the concept stage to use on a full blown site? Or will changes in updating Drupal/Phpbb/this module make things difficult or not work in the future?
Thanks for all the help, hope I'm not asking things that are glaringly obvious.
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And a follow up, could I
And a follow up, could I make all of this easier by using this module? http://drupal.org/project/facebook_auth
Would this mean they press the button, creating a profile through Facebook, and once that is done and they come to the site, they press that button and it logs them in? Would that work with this module too, or would we really have to try and see for ourselves?
1) Sure, but the problem is
1) Sure, but the problem is that phpBBs user profile are much richer than Drupal's. You could solve this with a redirect, but I'm sure you'll quickly be looking back.
2) Avatars should be mirrored. Currently this is one-way (phpBB syncs Drupal, but not the other way around). The reason for this is that Drupal profiles were until recently disabled. I put in a hack that just doesn't show the image upload dialog in Drupal.
3) This module puts Drupal in the drivers seat. I would not hook a third party program into phpBB, but you could.
4) Should generally not be a problem. You may have to patch the files manually.
5) It's not in a concept stage, it's in production, which is why I only take time to change things I really need myself. It's relatively unintrusive, so I doubt minor upgrades will break it. But you should not install this module if you don't have a clear idea of how it works under the hood, it's not made for the average Drupal user.
6) I don't know much about the facebook module. I don't think it makes a difference, this module doesn't care whether users are authenticated against Drupal's password store or something else.
Sorry about the late response, I encourage you to look at the code yourself.