phpbb

This group should probably have more organizers. See documentation on this recommendation.

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 :)

login issue...

Posted by Kjuib on August 30, 2007 at 4:22am

After following the steps here: http://kepp.net/phpbb3 without any trouble, I can create a new user and login as that user...

that were the the problems begin... changing the password doesn't seem to work. That might be because when viewing the forums my user will not stay logged in. It says logged in the first time I go to the forums page, but any page after that I am no longer logged in.

Any help would be nice. Thanks.

Updated beta for RC5

Posted by arkepp on August 27, 2007 at 6:27pm

The beta has been updated again to keep up with phpBB and RC5. AcydBurn indicated that RC5 may go gold, so hopefully things will start to settle down. If you have a bug to report, please make sure you are really running phpBB RC5.

The modifications to Drupal's .htaccess file are no longer required. In fact, it is important that you restore this file to the original supplied by Drupal. The cookies for the phpBB session are also handled differently. In your phpBB ACP the cookie domain should be set to your actual domain, so if your installation lives at http://www.somedomain.com/drupal , the field should be set to "somedomain.com".

Redirect problem - phpBB3 Drupal 5.2

Posted by jase951 on August 26, 2007 at 8:24pm

http://desktop1/drubb/forum/ucp.php?mode=login&sid=00c1ba9dfb209995939c6... redirects to http://desktop1/drubb/forum/login which is not valid.

I'm sure changing .htaccess would fix this.

Jason

Can't login after logout - phpBB3 Drupal 5.2

Posted by jase951 on August 26, 2007 at 5:49pm

This is the same issue as http://drupal.org/node/169626 seems to describe.

After logging out there does seem to be a problem with logging back in. Also the one-time login change password does not seem to work.

I will look into this, but any ideas?

Cookies and domains...

Posted by arkepp on August 25, 2007 at 9:05pm

Okay, I got stuck while upgrading to RC5. The phpBB developers appear to flip flop on this issue, or maybe they don't know it's happening, but I have seen this come and go during the RC-process. In short, I can't get setcookie() to set a cookie for the domain .domain.com , I can only get it to set to domain.com (missing dot in front, which makes it a host, not a domain). If I try to force a dot in front, either PHP or the browser rejects it.

phpBB uses (from includes/session.php)
header('Set-Cookie: ' . $name_data . '; expires=' . $expire . '; path=' . $config['cookie_path'] . $domain . ((!$config['cookie_secure']) ? '' : '; secure') . '; HttpOnly', false);

But that doesn't appear to do anything in Drupal, maybe because the phpbb module runs too late?

I am also suspicious about Drupal's .htaccess and the PHP stuff that happens in the configuration file, but at least the former should affect phpBB as well.

Any ideas?

Something doesn't work at step 2.5

Posted by SpectralDart on August 25, 2007 at 2:39am

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2007-01-24 18:38 Etc/GMT

Hi, I tried the procedure again.. And after step 2.5, I never see my user logged in to the forums when trying a new user from drupal. I need to activate the module first in drupal and then make my modifications.. am I doing something wrong??

3 Questions to the experts

Posted by funkyfrieder on August 22, 2007 at 12:51pm

Hi, I have 3 little questions regarding the integration of PHPBB2.x into Drupal

1)When I click on the Profile link in PhpBB it redirects me to Drupal with a page not found message, even though I have checked the acces user profiles box in the access control panel
2)Why is the module creating a new separate user group in PhpBB tables for every new registered user?
3) Is there a way to run the PHPBB Forum in the content area of Drupal and not in a new window?

Updated beta, note about database abstraction

Posted by arkepp on August 21, 2007 at 1:01am

I have updated the beta to fix the issues Jason pointed out. The .htaccess file no longer makes mod_rewrite look for user. Instead I have introduced a new permission called 'edit drupal users'. If your role has this permission then you will not be redirected to the phpBB profile.

If you modify usernames, email, password or pictures through Drupal you will end up with a mess in your database. Therefore only key admins should have this permission.

User blocks configure - phpBB3 Drupal 5.2

Posted by jase951 on August 17, 2007 at 1:48pm

When you go to configure a user/navigation block, it seems to get redirected alongside users redirect:

http://example.com/admin/build/block/configure/user/1

Altering the .htaccess should solve this.

Regards
Jason

Roles - phpBB3 Drupal 5.2

Posted by jase951 on August 16, 2007 at 6:36pm

Is there support for editing roles for this phpBB3 module? Since the user page is redirected.

You could add something like the phpBB admin form that you have added.

Regards
Jason

phpbb3 module

Posted by SpectralDart on August 13, 2007 at 6:08am

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2007-01-12 22:00 Etc/GMT

Some of you might have noticed that after following the instructions to merge drupal 5.2 and phpbb3 RC4 that you get a phpbb3_users INSERT that goes wrong. Here is a fix you'll need to introduce into your phpbb.module file :

  // Get the board language 
  // Insert a minimal user.
  $query =  "INSERT INTO {$phpbbcfg['db_users']} "
          ."(`user_id`,`username`,`username_clean`,`user_password`,"
          ."`user_regdate`,`user_email`,`user_options`,`user_lang`,`user_timezone`,"
          ."`user_permissions`, `user_sig`, `user_occ`, `user_interests`) "

Making phpBB Profile Default

Posted by NiTEHAWK on August 12, 2007 at 8:28pm

How do I make the profile edit/view for phpBB instead of Drupal?
Also, when the phpBB profile email gets edited, it also edits drupal email.

Admin Problem

Posted by NiTEHAWK on August 11, 2007 at 8:16am

I have installed the module fine (on latest version on phpBB v2.0.22)

But when other members register, they are created as Admin account.

Porting existing phpbb installation

Posted by Cross_and_Flame on August 10, 2007 at 10:32pm

I have an existing phpbb installation. I have been unable to theme and expand the drupal forums to my liking, and being at my wits end, realize that at this time a dual installation will have to suffice.

Does this module and installation work for an existing phpbb database? Or will it only work with clean installs?

Thanks in advance.

Information??

Posted by funkyfrieder on August 9, 2007 at 1:13pm

Hi
I have to integrate an existing PhpBB 2.X into Drupal, so I tried out the PHPBB integration module. After first trying to integrate an fresh php bb installation into a fresh drupal installation I failed after deleting the cookies and log in again (a did everything according to the manual at http://kepp.net/drupal/. I got the following text in my browser:

Beta updated for RC4

Posted by arkepp on August 4, 2007 at 4:47am

I have updated the beta version of the module you can get from http://kepp.net/phpbb3/ for Drupal 5.2 and phpBB RC4. The module hasn't really changed, only the ucp_profile.php file really needed to be updated for RC4. If you are using the code you need to replace the .module file, configuration.inc and ucp_profile.php. I also recommend checking the .htaccess files. The configuration instructions have not changed.

I have implemented user deletion three quarters of the way. But I am not sure it makes sense to move this over.

phpBB 3 RC4 is out

Posted by arkepp on July 28, 2007 at 5:47pm

Release Candidate 4 is out. More fixes than I was hoping for, but none of them appear to be for serious bugs. The beta version of the module should work with this new release, but the ucp_profile file has to be patched manually.

Todo list for the phpBB 3 module

Posted by arkepp on July 25, 2007 at 10:01pm
Last updated by arkepp on Sat, 2007-07-28 23:17

Just to start out with some content and get some suggestions in case anyone reads this. These are the planned fixes / errata list for the module.

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