phpBB

Hi everyone,

Have a task to build a community site. To put simply: 50% of features will be forum, community faq with voting, the other 50% will include e-zine, maybe some kind o a shop, link directory, user rating and etc, not much social networking stuff.
I am leaning to Commons installation, but it is not exactly what I want to start with.

They have announced it here: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2099641
and it is a result of their experiences here: http://blog.phpbb.com/2010/07/28/oscon-2010/

I think whilst normally we want to improve the core forum module, this feels like it could be different. If the phpbb team are working on an official bridge they have the ability to change the code of phpbb itself to make it integrate generally. (Which they appear to be doing anyway).

We have a Drupal 5 site with phpBB 2.0.21. We are using the phpbb module to bridge the user accounts and login. We are preparing to roll out a Drupal 6 upgrade next week. There doesn't seem to be any phpbb module version for Drupal 6. We need to have a plan to deal with this and wanted to see if anyone has reccomendations on how to solve this.

We can upgrade phpBB to the latest version 3, but is there any (even devel level) support for a Drupal 6 -> phpBB3 module?

Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

I have used phpBB for a long time and consider it the best GPL bulletin board system available. I wish I could easily integrate it into Drupal driven sites (currently 6.14.)

At first glance the phpBBforum Integration module seems to be the solution for D6; however, after closer examination it does not look very practical due to issues associated with keeping both platforms updated without breaking the site.

As much I love phpBB, I think I may have to go with the Drupal Advanced Forum module in order to get a more usable forum functionality for a site.

I sure love Drupal -- except for the forums, which are pretty weak when compared to Simple Machines Forum or PHPbb. Even with the Advanced Forums module -- which improves things quite a bit -- the forums still come up short.

I'm working on integrating SMF with my Drupal 5 site now, and will look for Drupal 6 solutions in the future, so I'm wondering if anyone has good experience integrating one of these (or another) third-party boards.

Thanks!

I'm using the drupal 5.12 and latest phpbb3.0.3. I have used the drupal core forum for quite a long time, now I want to integrate phpbb to my site, so I need to move these old data from drupal to phpbb:

1) Users in the drupal user table.
2) Content in the old forum

Does anyone have any suggestion on how to do this?

Thanks!

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

Whenever I try to modify a user with the phpBB integration, when I click to update a member in Drupal into a role, it takes me to one of their user profiles. How can I fix this? Thanks.

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.

Not sure if I'm in the right place, and I consider myself a smart man, but I am thoroughly confused.

I went looking for the phpBB integration module for Drupal 5.x and I cannot find it? I see the project and appropriate tags in the cvs tree, I can retrieve it from there, but there are no releases on the Drupal project page. Also, it seems that there needs to be some clarification as it seems there is possibly some duplication, why are there two projects that claim to do the same thing:

http://drupal.org/project/phpbb
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