For what it's worth, I see 2 problems attempting to be solved when one
mentions MediaWiki "integration" with phpBB (or any other forum software):
1) Provide a common login and password for each use for each mechanism
(wiki and forum).
2) Make talk pages automatically reference forum thread-topics.
Muzaffer, you do not appear to be addressing goal #2. Are you attempting
goald #1, or something else? If #1, could you make MediaWiki and phpBB
both be clients to an LDAP database?
If something else...can you explain further what purpose you attempt to
solve and/or what you want the end result to be? I'm unclear on this point.
-Matt
At 6/3/2005 08:17 PM, Muzaffer Ozakca wrote:
I've been trying to integrate phpBB with mediawiki.
But I'm not trying to
tie talk pages to forums.
I made some progress... towards a mess. I looked at phpBB, smf, useBB, and
some others. The thing is their codes are very similar, they all keep a
sessions table to show who is logged in, etc. There are other simpler
ones, too. Compared to MW, they might be good cases for bad software
design and coding.
Here's what I got.
== When a user is created in MW, user tables of phpBB are updated.
Basically a user with the same user name is added to the phpbb user table.
== phpBB checks mediawiki cookies and makes the user in the MW cookie log
in automatically by setting some internal structures. Of course, sessions
are not easily sharable so there are problems here. For example, if a
session expires for a user, cookies will still be there.
There might be security issues, too. I'm not planning to integrate it
fully into MW code, I will put phpBB in a resizable frame on a wiki page.
Then make it look like monobook by playing with layout and css. I took a
similar approach -iframes- for an event calendar that works somewhat OK.
As I said, my goal is not replacing talk pages but give my users a
separate forum.
Julian Rendell wrote:
Hi there-
I've done some searching and seen some mock-ups, and a few hints that
people have succeeded, but does anyone have a concrete guide for how
to integrate some kind of forum software into mediawiki to replace the
talk pages?
Or I guess a second best would be the ability to easily (e.g. via
interwiki?) integrate a seperate forum site into mediawiki links, and
also an easy way to create wiki-like links in the forum posts that
link back to the wiki.
Any suggestions appreciated-
Regards
Julian
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