[ABD] [Bridge] Drupal Bridge 0.0.1

ckwalsh · Post by **ckwalsh** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:51 am

MOD Title: Drupal Bridge 0.0.1
Author: ckwalsh

MOD Description: This MOD helps combine phpBB with Drupal. It currently integrates the login systems, along with mapping existing users and creating new ones based on the drupal user system. It also integrates the templates, and includes a drupal_bridge template designed to work with the garland theme. Future work may provide Drupal access to the phpBB content, but exact features have not been worked out.

This MOD is is development, and should NOT be used on a live site. You should know this, but I'm putting it in big red letters, just to be sure.

MOD Version: 0.0.1
Version release date: November 3, 2010

MOD Download:

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Notes: This release expects the phpBB installation to be a subdirectory of the Drupal installation. This may be changed in includes/auth/auth_drupal.php

History

0.0.1 Initial Release

Known issues

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Jorup16 · Post by **Jorup16** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:00 am

Nice work

demon327 · Post by **demon327** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:08 am

For some reason this module is not working at all

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my drupal path is like this:
http://localhost/drupal
the board is like this:
http://localhost/drupal/forum

i'm using clean urls.

But the settings always say i'm not logged into drupal.

my user ID on the phpbb boards is 154, in drupal this is 1, so maybe thats the issue?

Notice: non of my id's ar sync because of a other bridge, that needed to increment the id's....

edit: it's working when the base url is set in the drupal settings.php file. but it aint syncing users...

Eelke · Post by **Eelke** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 1:13 pm

I've had a quick look at the code. Am I correct when I say that the visual integration is purely based on your theme adding a Garland-look to the Subsilver theme? I.e. it's purely cosmetical and there is no integration with the Drupal menu system, etc.? I found a reference to integrating with Drupal's output (line 95 of hook_drupal.php), but it doesn't seem to do anything.

demon327 · Post by **demon327** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 1:33 pm

Found some new issues:

- Can't put the switch ask user to sync accounts to off
- it always embed the forum in drupal(this is a no go)
- The sync can't work because of an error:

Code: Select all

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare user_delete() (previously declared in C:\wamp\www\drupal1\modules\user\user.module:1640) in C:\wamp\www\drupal1\forum\includes\functions_user.php on line 640

it seems that phpbb and drupal ar using the same function name...

The error comes up when you try to access the ucp or the admin part of the user management.

Some advice:
Make that the log ins systems aren't linked, only sessions, so when you login in phpbb, the session is synced to drupal, and the reversed.

Make the emb a optional feature

Take a look at this module, this one is "perfect" with only a few issues to resovl, like phpbb core edits, and username changes that are fucked up...

http://drupal.org/project/phpbbforum

ckwalsh · Post by **ckwalsh** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:39 pm

demon327 wrote:edit: it's working when the base url is set in the drupal settings.php file. but it aint syncing users...

Whether the base url is set should be checked when you enable the auth module. Was it not throwing an error message? As for syncing users, it currently associates users, so when you log in to drupal it also logs you into phpBB, and does not sync any extra data. There are some issues with doing so, such as that Drupal does not validate emails by default, and some of the data is from Drupal modules.

Eelke wrote:I've had a quick look at the code. Am I correct when I say that the visual integration is purely based on your theme adding a Garland-look to the Subsilver theme? I.e. it's purely cosmetical and there is no integration with the Drupal menu system, etc.? I found a reference to integrating with Drupal's output (line 95 of hook_drupal.php), but it doesn't seem to do anything.

Correct, it does not integrate with the menu system. It wraps phpBB in the current Drupal Template. By default this works, but there are some css clashes. Thus, I included a version of the CSS for prosilver that fixes the namespace clashes and removes some of the unintended bullets, etc.

As for the embedding, yes, I'll make that an optional feature.

demon327 · Post by **demon327** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:59 pm

ckwalsh wrote:
demon327 wrote:edit: it's working when the base url is set in the drupal settings.php file. but it aint syncing users...
Whether the base url is set should be checked when you enable the auth module. Was it not throwing an error message? As for syncing users, it currently associates users, so when you log in to drupal it also logs you into phpBB, and does not sync any extra data. There are some issues with doing so, such as that Drupal does not validate emails by default, and some of the data is from Drupal modules.

except the "Not logged in drupal" error message, it was not doing anything till i set the base url, then it started working

mandrake88 · Post by **mandrake88** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 8:19 pm

drupal 7.0 beta2 support?

demon327 · Post by **demon327** » Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:11 pm

mandrake88 wrote:drupal 7.0 beta2 support?

Since drupal 7 is still in beta, i suspect there won't be any support for the 7.x branche, but first the OP needs to make sure this version works well on a stable drupal release

Eelke · Post by **Eelke** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:38 am

I think its more a matter of where the demand will be, which completely depends on how quickly Drupal 7 takes off after the gold release. If it's expected that it will take off quickly, it may be a good idea to concentrate efforts there. I doubt it will, though

~Merlin~ · Post by **~Merlin~** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 1:45 am

According to the speed of this bridge development it seems to be correct to support Drupal 7.
Maybe Drupal 7 will be released earlier ))

metoo55 · Post by **metoo55** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:50 am

Wait for Drupal Bridge 0.0.2

This project will make phpBB differentiate from another forum script that try to develop blog & cms platform over forum script by themself.

I think Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla are market leader in cms market. phpBB should be try to integrate with them for expand phpBB to attach this market. Most forum script don't support "bridge" to cms in official but they push to Mod developer that not confirm this Mod support next cms version or not. Then if phpBB announce to support "Bride" by official, i think open source community will come back to used phpBB platform again.

hans130 · Post by **hans130** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 9:16 am

I recieved "Not logged in to drupal" even base url is set.
Clean install drupal and clean install phpbb3

How can I fixed it ?

demon327 · Post by **demon327** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 10:23 am

hans130 wrote:I recieved "Not logged in to drupal" even base url is set.
Clean install drupal and clean install phpbb3

How can I fixed it ?

maybe try it without clean urls, just to test...

hans130 · Post by **hans130** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 5:19 pm

Nope.
Same error.