phpbb

Hello,

I'm wondering if it would be difficult to move an existing phpbb system from phpbbforum to this module?

I already have several users and a lot of content so starting over is not an option at the moment.

Would it be difficult and most importantly, would it work?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Wayne

I'm building a new drupal site, i'm using drupal 5.7 (6 is no go because I'm using ubercart) and I'd like to integrate it with a phpbb 3.0.1.
Looking around on drupal.org I understand there are two modules to do this phpBBforum and the phpbb module, both of them seem to be actively maintained. Anyone have experience using both of them ? Which one should I use ? Which one is more stable and featured?

I'm now using phpbb and seems to work ok... still need to do an extensive test but user get created and login works ok.

Thanks
Diego.

I installed drupal 5.7 w/phpbb 3.0.1 and integrated the database using the phpbb drupal module.
I'm having problems logging in to the phpbb forums (i.e. to http://mysite/phpbb or in my case http://mysite/forum). It doesn't matter whether I try to login as admin or regular user to phpbb, I'm redirected to "Access forbidden. Error 403" by the browser. I know that whenever I add a new user to drupal that user is also being added to phpbb because the username of the newest drupal user shows up at the bottom of the phpbb login page as the "Our newest member: newest drupal member".

Hello,
I have installed Drupal 5.7, phpBB3.0.1 and the latest version of this mod.
The registered users' accounts work wonderfully! But the thing is, I can not login to the Admin Control Panel for phpBB. When I log in, the login page just reloads, nothing happends. When I login to drupal, I get
(The Drupal superuser is never logged into phpBB). You should create a new user and give this user admin rights in both Drupal and phpBB.
From here, what should I do? Register a new drupal account and edit it through drupal somehow?

So I'm reading on this module and it seems great, the default forums, to me, don't cut it and I like what this can do, but here are my questions.

*Since there will always be the forum profile and the Drupal profile, could there be a way that in the forums something is automatically included in the forum profiles for a user directing people to their Drupal site profile? So if the user is bob, under their name in a forum post, or viewing their profile on the forum there would be a button for you to click to go to the Drupal profile, which would be www.site.com/users/bob

Hello guys, I've set up drupal 5.7 and phpBB 3.0.1 and managed to get things working right, but one small bug I can't seem to work out.

The recent forum topics were initially updating when I set it up, but after editting and adding some Forums in phpBB, the Recent forum topics are no longer updating, it's just blank.

I've gone over everything twice and it looks right, just wondering in anyone has run into this problem before or has any suggestions to try.

Thanks in advance!!

Hi guys, I am currently trying to get the module to work with an existing drupal install.

The database name is willdcou_unfamilia

I'm not the best at sql and phpmyadmin.

I tried to run this query

UPDATE willdcou_unfamilia.sequences SET id = '1000' WHERE sequences.name = 'users_uid' LIMIT 1 ;

which comes back with the following error

ERROR: Unclosed quote @ 52
STR: '
SQL: UPDATE willdcou_unfamilia.sequences SET id = \'1000\' WHERE sequences.name = \'users_uid\' LIMIT 1 ;

SQL query:

Hi,

I just got my hands into a new exciting project, which involves the upgrading an exisiting forum from Drupal system to PHPBB.

Being an existing forum, it has some content on it and my clients wants it into the new system. Is there anything already built to perform this task?

Thanks,

Ed

Hello Arkepp, i made youre install instructions if it comes to editing the phpbb files a little bit more clear :), i used the phpbb3 mod install template to tell the users howto edit..

you can download it here:
http://panzerkampf.be/phpbb/phpbb-drupal.zip

i hope you dont mind it that i did it :)

I've made patch which allows to import existing users from phpBB 3 to Drupal 5.5

This hook must be added to phpbb.module to import users.

Brief overview: on login try phpbb_auth() (implementation of hook_auth()) tries to check if user with such name exists in phpBB user database and if it exists and entered password matches password in phpBB database it copies account information to Drupal users table and loggs user in. Then imported user can login using default Drupal auth system even if phpBB integration doesn't exist anymore.
<?php
/**
* Implementation of hook_auth

ok here's the deal I am testing out drupal/phpbb3 on my local server. Everything is working out right but for some weird reason the forum titles on the block instead of linking to: http://192.168.0.100/dwmt/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1 it's linking to: http://192.168.0.100/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1

and of course that doesn't work because the forum resides in /var/www/dwmt/forum

How do I fix this?

I know this module uses Drupal's database abstraction layer to get to phpBB's database. But what I don't understand is, how do the Drupal functions like db_query() and db_result() know to go into the phpBB database rather than the Drupal database? If I were to try to get some information from phpBB outside of this module, say like this:

I would get an error from Drupal saying:

I am wondering which user forum would be a better fit if it comes to speedy response times. The Drupal forum or the PHPbb3?
Has anybody accomplished an amazing and real-estate saving forum layout (.asp) like the guys from dpreview.com which quite frankly supposed to become a standard in the "industry"!?
Thanks for your input!

Please tell me how can I enable or allow all or any kind of characters for user name creation because characters like !@#$%^&*()_+|}{":?>< are not allowed and considered as illegal characters.
Please advise ... Please know that I did searched for such a thing in the main forum and posted asking for a solution, but no reply and I did not found any module can does this job.
Thanks

I thought I remember hearing a while back that it's not safe to delete users when using this module. Is this true, or am I just not remembering correctly. It was awhile ago anyway and the module has progressed a lot since. I'd really like to be able to delete users, as I've found a lot of spam registrations lately.

Hi
Just installed a fresh install for another new website and suddenly found that I can not login to the forum using IE7 while login fine using FF. Any reason why?
Thanks

Hi
I'd like to know what if I want to upgrade phpbb3.0.0 to phpbb3.0.1?
Will the module still work?
What is the best scenario to do the update?
Thanks

Hi,

Just found a bug.. When changing a password, certain user settings like signatures will be wiped clean. Can anyone else confirm this?

Thanks

Hello Arkepp, i found a little bug i think:

when a moderator bans a user trough the MCP(Moderator Control Panel) the ban is not transferd to drupal cause the user is still active in drupal..

Hi
I've just created some temp accounts to test registrations, and after I've finished checking phase I've deleted these accounts from Drupal acp, but when I went to the phpbb forum I've found these users still exist and had to delete them again. Is this normal that I had to delete users twice, or there is something need to be adjusted.
Thanks