Posted by mennonot on February 18, 2008 at 11:44pm
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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They do the same thing. I
They do the same thing. I think the main difference is that phpBBforum uses the existing phpBB code for more things, like creating sessions and users etc.
My experience from the phpBB 2.x series is that the cookies and database were a more stable "API", and I didn't want to pull in as much code from phpBB (the module is quite large, and loads a ton of code you don't really need). That said, phpBBforum's approach is equally valid, and the extra code probably doesn't matter much.
It's really sad that phpBB is such a monolith without hooks built into the design.