I am by no means any kind of PHP programmer.  So I am asking all the gurus that watch this forum if it would be possible to create plugin that pulls information out of PHPBB to display on EE.

I have been unable to get this to work at all, using the phpBB Mod phpBB-Fetch-All.  It seems that there are incompatible instructions and/or the variables across templates limitation of EE is causing me all kinds of issues.  Even the Snippets plugin doesn’t work here.

Anyway, phpBB is a pretty popular forum and a plugin would be welcome by more than just myself I am sure.  At least until the EE Forum Module is released.

It would need to do some simple functions.  Most of which could be garnered from the code for phpbb_fetch_all

1)Display recent forum posts
2) User Avatar, Newest Users, Last Login
3) PM messages waiting count and new Threads since last visit count.  And the ability to create links to those areas.

Thanks for your efforts.

Can you go straight for the database Doc?

I use phpBB with EZPortal, and just the idea of wading through all that to figure out a bridge is exhausting.

I’m going to be giving it some thought wunna these days anyway though ...

I’m guessing here, but can’t you just use php includes? I pull a ‘last 10 topics’ block from phpBB_fetch_all and stick it in a orginary .php file on my site at work. I assume you could do the same _after_ the page has been compiled in EE (you may need to check the settings here). IIRC I used error supression (very quick & dirty) to hide the ‘headers already sent’ message that appeared with the phpBB block.

That sounds good. I haven’t gotten around to the whole matter yet, but, I’ll try something like that when I do. Should work fine, now that you mention it.

The problem with using standard includes is that parameters cannot be passed across templates. 

Since I use four templates to create my index, I can include the phpBB stuff fine, but it fails on trying to display them in the other templates.

With a plugin that could look directly into the phpBB database, the problem of multiple templates would be resolved.  For some reason the snippets plugin doesn’t even work for displaying the commands pulled via the includes.  Then there is an issue of neededing to get some stuff on PHP input and some on PHP Output.

I used to pull all sorts of data via phpbb_fetch_all and it worked flawlessly when the pages were rebuilt as static (ie MT), but I have had no luck with anything since I switched to an all dynamic setup.

Here is an example of one of the errors that is produced when trying to include phpBB stuff into EE:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class template in /home/user/public_html/phpBB2/includes/template.php on line 30

Both EE and phpBB apparently use a class with the name “template”.  If you try to bring in the phpBB stuff inside EE, then there’s a conflict with the class names, hence the error.

That’s what I figured.  hence the hopes for a plugin to work around that.

Has anyone created a plugin, or managed to successfully integrate phpBB with ExpressionEngine?

I’ve found the following articles discussing integrating phpBB with pMachine (from 2002):

http://www.pmachine.com/forum/threads.php?id=16548_0_17_0_C

http://www.pmachine.com/forum/threads.php?id=13530_0_19_0_C

http://www.pmachine.com/forum/threads.php?id=9858_0_16_0_C

http://www.pmachine.com/forum/threads.php?id=9539_0_17_0_C

http://www.pmachine.com/forum/threads.php?id=7911_0_17_0_C

Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find anything about integrating phpBB with ExpressionEngine.  Has this been done?  Has anyone managed to integrated phpBB with ExpressionEngine, and if so is there a tutorial available?

Thank-you,

  Mark

No Mark, no one has been able to integrate phpBB, vBulletin, or InvisionBoard with EE.

A potential forum is punBB.org

It uses the same password scheme as EE.

Of all the available forums, that’s the one most likely to work with EE.