Complete jFusion / phpBB 3 / Community Builder Thread

[copeland]

I know there's a heap of threads already about how to various things and what not... but I've spent so long looking for various ways to COMPLETELY integrate Community Builder with phpBB 3...

NB: Both phpbb3 and joomla must reside in the same database... the modified files also require joomla's database prefix to be jos_ and phpbb3's to be phpbb_ (you can ofcrouse edit this though )

Anyway, please anyone else feel free to contribute... but i will try and share my experience in this.

So far i have managed to integrate the following aspects thanks to a few hacks here there...

What i have done...

Profile Properties linked to fields within CB

• Website / ICQ / AIM / MSN / YIM / Jabber / Location / Birthday / Signature
• Avatar (user uploaded option only)
• Link to user profile (requires sh404sef - explained below)

What i would like to do...

• Use phpBB3's PM system in community builder, link to msg a user from the CB profile page
• Latest posts plugin in CB profile. (almost there... check a few posts down)
• Karma hacks for both CB and phpBB3 integrated

Anyway... to allow all the profile properties in phpBB3 to be edited via CB do the following...

1/ Set up the following CB fields...

cb_www => Website Field
cb_icq => Interger field (min 9, max 10)
cb_aim => textfield
cb_msn => email address
cb_yim => email address
cb_jabber => email address
cb_from => text, drop down... whatever you want really
cb_geburtstag => Date
cb_signature => htmltextarea

2/ Set your avatars, so it doesn't use the gallery or allow offsite avatars and only user uploaded emails.

3/ Modified files

phpBB3 modded files.zip

(35.28 KiB) Downloaded 1778 times

(i do not take credit for the code... this has been gathered from here by Friik and i have slightly modified some aspects

4/ Open functions_display and search for INSERTYOURURL

5/ Change this to your URL and path to you users avatar image directory

6/ Open functions_content and search for INSERTYOURURL

7/
A) IF USING SH404SEF
Add in your URL and the PATH to your user profiles. (clearing your sh404sef URL's could cause problems here... be careful when doing that... if you do.. simply view the list of registered users generated by CB to correct it.

Also, be sure that these options are checked "Insert user pseudo" "insert username" in the sh404sef plugin for Community Builder

B) IF USING NO SEF, NORMAL JOOMLA

Search for "// hack for no sh404sef users"
Uncomment... it should work... but it is untested.. and i think there are issues with userids not being sync'd, just usernames.

8/ Upload and overwrite the files (please backup first!!!)

9/ Turn off Profile section in PHPBB3's UCP

10/ Everything should now work...

Cheers, Mike

[piegus]

Oh man. I love it!
I will test it right away!
EDIT: Does it also support 2 separate DB's? Beacuse i wasn't able to get how to set this.

[Imran]

This seems to be a lot better than this thread here

http://www.jfusion.org/index.php/compon ... hp/t,1417/

which of course I stickied a few days back. Will see how this thread goes and maybe sticky it in a few days if the results look promising.

In the mean time great work copeland.

[copeland]

Oh man. I love it!
I will test it right away!
EDIT: Does it also support 2 separate DB's? Beacuse i wasn't able to get how to set this.

Unforunately this requires the phpbb3 and joomla to be in the same database... i will edit my post to mention this...

Cheers
Mike

[copeland]

This seems to be a lot better than this thread here

http://www.jfusion.org/index.php/compon ... hp/t,1417/

which of course I stickied a few days back. Will see how this thread goes and maybe sticky it in a few days if the results look promising.

In the mean time great work copeland.

No problem mate... like i said to my mate at work while i was posting this... you guys are giving this stuff to everyone free of charge... and for that i am more than willing to contribute if it means helping the project and others out...

I noticed that thread, and i don't mean to take anything away... i just thought it would be easier to start a new thread as i had integrated all aspects of a persons profile from phpbb to cb

[copeland]

Ok... managed to get the posts from the forum displaying and linking properly in a CB tab!!!

Here's the plugin.. (install in cb)

phpbb3-jfusion-cb-latest posts.zip

(6.37 KiB) Downloaded 742 times

This is a modification of this plugin

Notes:

I've modified the file and created a new fields itemID which allows you to enter in itemID, so don't forget to do that.
THIS DISPLAYS ALL POSTS!!! INCLUDING POSTS FROM RESTRICTED FORUMS UNFORTUNATELY!!!

If anyone can fix this.. please report back!! I'll keep giving it a shot.

Anyway... this is working on my joomla 1.5.9 and phpbb 3.0.4 and CB 1.2 RC4

[Imran]

No problem mate... like i said to my mate at work while i was posting this... you guys are giving this stuff to everyone free of charge... and for that i am more than willing to contribute if it means helping the project and others out...

Really appreciate it. The reviews at the JED and here on the forums do motivate us a lot.

I noticed that thread, and i don't mean to take anything away... i just thought it would be easier to start a new thread as i had integrated all aspects of a persons profile from phpbb to cb

You have done a far greater job than classixuk. Keep it up! A different topic is totally justified. No doubt.

[piegus]

I think that here also might be the same problem as http://www.jfusion.org/index.php/compon ... 417/#p7432
With different ID's in forum and in Joomla.

DEVELOPERS: Can u make some function or anything to connect those ID's?

[captor8]

Can you please help. What is configuration to make this work?

I have Community Builder Registration enabled and PHPBB3 registration disabled.

In JFusion, I have PHPBB3 as slave and joomla_int as Master. But I see an error saying "joomla_int needs to have user registration enabled as it is a master".

What else should I do to make this work?

[copeland]

Just ignore the error... it is more of a warning and it still works.