phpbb

I'm building a new drupal site, i'm using drupal 5.7 (6 is no go because I'm using ubercart) and I'd like to integrate it with a phpbb 3.0.1.
Looking around on drupal.org I understand there are two modules to do this phpBBforum and the phpbb module, both of them seem to be actively maintained. Anyone have experience using both of them ? Which one should I use ? Which one is more stable and featured?

I'm now using phpbb and seems to work ok... still need to do an extensive test but user get created and login works ok.

Thanks
Diego.

Hello,
I have installed Drupal 5.7, phpBB3.0.1 and the latest version of this mod.
The registered users' accounts work wonderfully! But the thing is, I can not login to the Admin Control Panel for phpBB. When I log in, the login page just reloads, nothing happends. When I login to drupal, I get
(The Drupal superuser is never logged into phpBB). You should create a new user and give this user admin rights in both Drupal and phpBB.
From here, what should I do? Register a new drupal account and edit it through drupal somehow?

Hello guys, I've set up drupal 5.7 and phpBB 3.0.1 and managed to get things working right, but one small bug I can't seem to work out.

The recent forum topics were initially updating when I set it up, but after editting and adding some Forums in phpBB, the Recent forum topics are no longer updating, it's just blank.

I've gone over everything twice and it looks right, just wondering in anyone has run into this problem before or has any suggestions to try.

Thanks in advance!!

Hi,

I just got my hands into a new exciting project, which involves the upgrading an exisiting forum from Drupal system to PHPBB.

Being an existing forum, it has some content on it and my clients wants it into the new system. Is there anything already built to perform this task?

Thanks,

Ed

I've made patch which allows to import existing users from phpBB 3 to Drupal 5.5

This hook must be added to phpbb.module to import users.

Brief overview: on login try phpbb_auth() (implementation of hook_auth()) tries to check if user with such name exists in phpBB user database and if it exists and entered password matches password in phpBB database it copies account information to Drupal users table and loggs user in. Then imported user can login using default Drupal auth system even if phpBB integration doesn't exist anymore.
<?php
/**
* Implementation of hook_auth

I know this module uses Drupal's database abstraction layer to get to phpBB's database. But what I don't understand is, how do the Drupal functions like db_query() and db_result() know to go into the phpBB database rather than the Drupal database? If I were to try to get some information from phpBB outside of this module, say like this:

I would get an error from Drupal saying:

Please tell me how can I enable or allow all or any kind of characters for user name creation because characters like !@#$%^&*()_+|}{":?>< are not allowed and considered as illegal characters.
Please advise ... Please know that I did searched for such a thing in the main forum and posted asking for a solution, but no reply and I did not found any module can does this job.
Thanks

Hi
Just installed a fresh install for another new website and suddenly found that I can not login to the forum using IE7 while login fine using FF. Any reason why?
Thanks

Hi,

Just found a bug.. When changing a password, certain user settings like signatures will be wiped clean. Can anyone else confirm this?

Thanks