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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

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?

Hi
I've searching since three days and spent more then 30 hours in my computer to try to let it work but no way.
I've downloaded the module to integrate phpb3.0.0 with latest drupal 6.1 http://drupal.org/project/phpbbforum , and did tried my best to follow up instructions to install them correctly, and after a lot of work I was not able to let the forum display in a window but it is able to play in iframe, so I posted in the associated topic http://drupal.org/node/217369#comment-777184 but really no support or reply at all so far.

Hm - can anybody tell me what's the intended route to change a member's username? I've tried it from both ends, from phpBB's ACP and from Drupal editing the name in the user profile, but neither changed both databases. Not sure, is this how it's supposed to be, or did I break something? ;) I also noticed that sometimes Drupal won't let me edit a user profile, instead I get a message that the email address has already been taken. A prominent situation this happens to me when I try do edit Drupal's master user profile. Is this something that anyone can reproduce?

I made a fresh Drupal 5.7 installation and also a fresh phpbb 3.0 installation without any moduls, login etc. all worked fine, with only the 2 problems below.

The 1st problem occurs when you have forgotten your old password and want to retrieve a new one. You get the email with the link to change the password, no problem until now. But when you changed the password in the Drupal-formular and submits it you will be forwarded to the phpbb-ucp without the password-change.
This error occurs also on your page http://drupal.i1media.no.

I finally discovered that deactivating a user's account is the proper way to "ban" a user in phpBB3 (I think, maybe I'm still wrong). I noticed that when I used to ban users by username/email in phpBB that the account was also deactivated in Drupal. But now that I choose the "Deactivate User" option instead, the account remains active in Drupal. I'm not sure if this is by design or whatever but I thought I would give a heads up.

I noticed that the "Forum Stuff" block fell victim to last month's refactoring - is it safe to re-add it again for those who found it useful, or was there any problem with the code?

Also seems like the phpbb_block function contains a tiny glitch:

$block[0]['info'] = $phpbbcfg['block0_title'];

should be:

$block[0]['info'] = $phpbbcfg['block_recent_topics_title'];

Otherwise the block title doesn't show in the admin section.

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.

I've recently merged a new Drupal installation with an existing phpBB board, and while the basic functionality is fabulous, I'm having problems with Drupal's cache: after a short while, pages start looking garbled (e.g. there are parts missing, or I simply get a white page with screwed-up code) and refreshing doesn't help - the only thing that helps is deactivating Drupal's cache.