This is an attempt to organize a group around the phpbb module. The module provides single sign-on and shared user profiles for Drupal and phpBB. It is not a complete integration or a close substitute for the built-in forums in Drupal.
You can use this group to get help with configuration issues or to compare notes on possible bugs. Patches are always welcome :)
Handling new registration profile fields that correlate with phpbb
how would one go about adding new profile fields (using the core profile module in drupal5) so they show up in phpbb profiles? such as "ICQ number:" etc.
Read moreInserting users from a phpbb2 database into drupal5/phpbb3
Please excuse me if I'm asking a terribly redundant question here, I read through the posts, but haven't found the answer. But I've just got the phpbb3/drupal5 mod working and am now wondering how to import about 85 users from an existing phpbb2 forum. Should I first upgrade it to phpBB3, then copy the user information over just as if I were moving from one installation to another without drupal?
If this has been posted elsewhere, please refer me to the location.
Thanks!
Read moreModule is now 'bronze', new demo site
So I did a fresh reinstall to make sure everything is working. Which it actually is, so I guess it's time to call it 'bronze'. I'll move the instructions over to http://drupal.i1media.no soon (the new home for the module), but feel free to test in the meantime. The instructions haven't changed, but I'll try to clean them up a bit and cover more of the stuff you have been asking about.
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Showing phpBB3 avatar as Drupal user image
Hi all. I have succesfully integrated phpBB3 and Drupal using a script of my own. My approach is different from the phpBB Drupal module: in my site, phpBB3 manages all login and account tasks, and the phpBB profiles are used instead of Drupal ones. The Drupal profiles redirect to phpBB3 profiles, in fact. Take a look (for example, click on any username in Drupal comments): http://www.hispasonic.com/ (the forum is here: http://www.hispasonic.com/comunidad/).
Read moreintegrate existing Drupal site and phpbb forum
Hello,
I have an existing Drupal5 site with 10 000 users, and an existing Phpbb2 forum with 5 000 users.
There is a partial overlap between the site and the forum: I guesstimate that at least 3 000 users are in both databases, but not always with the same username, password, email and certainly not with the same id.
I would like to integrate both websites, find some way to make all site users also forum users and vice versa.
But I wouldn't even know where to start.
My case is different from most cases I read about, because I won't be starting from scratch.
Any ideas?
Read moreWould you like phpBB3 to handle drupal's Comments? (Comments <=> Posts in a Thread - per drupal node)
Issue with external links from phpbb3 forum in Drupal
I successfully managed to install Drupal 5.x and phpBB3 and get them to share users with the phpbb module...thank you for all the help, this site was invaluable!! :D
Here's my problem (I'd appreciate any feedback as I'm fairly new to Drupal and not quite sure where to even start troubleshooting this): when you log into the Drupal site and go to the forums, the user stays logged in: great. But any navigation within the forum or links to external sites in forum posts show up fine when clicked, but it keeps the main site in the address bar.
Read morePhpBB3 / drupal 5
I hope this is something someone can help me with. I am not new to PHP coding, but I am unable to do what I want, and its probably just a matter of looking at the code enough, but anyways:
I am running a test site where the main user is also the superuser. I know there is a block of code that keeps the super user from logging in to phpbb automatically.
Read more"Recent forum topics" block query
Hi...
I would like to re-create the "Recent forum topics" block on a non-Drupal page.
Because of this I took a look into the .module file in order to locate and copy the query that would output the latest active topics.
However, I'm stuck as I'm not too familiar with mysql yet....
I found the code below, but I don't really understand why it does the left join on the group_id and others...
Anyone who knows how the $sql command should look like and could wrap it up for me?
Quick update on the phpBB 3.x module
As I mentioned previously, on November 5th we moved all our websites ( http://mac1.no, http://linux1.no, http://kreativ1.no + a few others ) to Drupal 5.3 / phpBB 3.x. The module has actually not caused a single problem since then, but there were other things that kept me busy*. This weekend we upgraded to RC8 by applying the diff directly, and that worked flawlessly too. I have updated the module, but not had a chance to test it properly. Unfortunately, the version we use on our production sites depends on a lot of code you don't want, so the code released here comes from a different branch and QA has to be done separately.
Read moreBest way of importing existing phpBB forum?
i'm working on a replacement site using Drupal and phpBB3. I already have a phpBB3 forum up and running, and have around 27500 posts and over 1300 users.
I've managed to install the phpBB module, and get users to be able to log in, and post, play around etc.
I know this isnt production ready yet, and i'm just playing around, but how would I go about inserting all my existing data into this bridge? db backup and then upload it?
Read moreAccessing PHPBB3 from Drupal
I'm a relative newbie into Drupal usage.
I have Drupal running and have Phpbb3 installed and accessing it from Drupal using the arkepp phpbb module (and very good it is too).
Im now trying to understand how best to display forum content along with Drupal content. Currently it spawns a new window with no Drupal "screen furniture".
Ive read the Travis Tidwell post about using XMLRPC and the Services module - which whilst understandable seems to be perhaps more complex an approach than i want to tackle.
Login issues Firefox <-> IE & Safari
hi everyone.
i recently installed Drupal 5.3 + the phpBB module & phpBB 3.
now, everything works well in Firefox. i can use a remote login form, users stay logged in between drupal and phpBB. But with IE and Safari, the users log into drupal, go to the forum, they still need to login. wanting to login, they get taken back to the drupal login screen (which is normal) but they're already logged in...
anyone have any ideas what the reason for this might be ? i've searched the drupal forum/the threads in this group, but still haven't found a solution.
Read moreuser_notify (disable notification) is not updated phpbb_users table
Hello all,
I have Drupal 5.3+phpbb2.0.22 integrated using phpbb5x-1.1 module,
I seem to have an interesting problem: when editing user profile, I can successfully update such fields as user_from, user_icq, etc. both in the drupal users table and in the phpbb users table. On the otherr hand, when I want to disable notifications about new posts on the forum -- "disable notifications" unclicked in the profile -- the change is happening only in drupal_profile_values table and not in phpbb_users table.
Read moreDisplay 'new private message' in phpBB
Sorry if I've missed something obvious here!
I've succesfully integrated Drupal 5.3 with my existing 20000+ user phpBB2 installation (thanks!) but have an issue with new private messages not being flagged up on the forum pages. Is the phpBB module supposed to update the message count in the forum or do I need to write some code to grab this information from Drupal?
Thanks in advance for any ideas
BP
Problems merging existing phpbb board with drupal
How do I go about merging an existing phpbb board with drupal?
The board is phpbb2. Here's what I tried so far
1) Following the instructions for a blank drupal 5.3 and a blank phpbb3 RC7 and it worked perfectly. My only confusion was with the drupal_sequences table...I assume it meant the users_uid to change to 1000, not add a new entry? Regardless, it worked perfectly with the new test users sharing the same login session. Neat!
Read moreChange the Drupal theme when the forum theme changes
When I was using the phpbb2x module, I gave my users the possibility to change the theme in Drupal.
By some simple coding my forum's theme changed depending on the theme set in Drupal...
However.. I'm not quite sure how to do this trick the other way around... any ideas?
When changing the theme in the forum it should also change the theme in Drupal (in order to match).
Is it possible to make Drupal get the users avatar from the forum?
I use the following code in order to display my users avatar (if they have any) on my site.
Since phpbb3 handles my avatars... is there any way of getting this to work?
The problem is that Drupal doesn't know about the phpbb3 avatars and because of their random filenames I don't know how to get this to work...
<?php
global $user;
if ( $user->picture ) {
print "<div id=\"userbar_avatar\"><a href=". $base_path ."/user/". $user->uid .">" .theme(''user_picture'', $user, ''user_picture''). " </a></div>";
}
?>Quick update
Hi all, I'm pretty quiet these days because I am in the progress of updating my own pages to phpBB 3.x and Drupal 5.3. At the same time we're also merging three forums with 17 000 users and 680 000 posts and writing lots of glue and scripts to make the end result hold together. I also found out that I have implemented a bug that exists in RC7, so there will be a fix for that soon. (See password converted bug at phpbb.com)
Check out http://mac1.no , http://linux1.no, http://kreativ1.no (yes, they're in norwegian).
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