Re: [Fwd: [Back-end-development] Integrating Phorum into Back-e

>On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:05:36AM -0500, Mike Gifford wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thought that I'd forward this question over to the phpSlash list to see
> > if anyone has done anything like this and would have some suggestions.
> > Tim's looking to bring this into Back-End, but hopefully we'd be able to
> > bring that over to PSL pretty easily to add to the new foundry.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > -----Forwarded Message-----
> > From: Tim Verhoeven <[email protected]>
> > To: Back-end Development list 
><back-end-development-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
> > Subject: [Back-end-development] Integrating Phorum into Back-end
> > Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:45:19 +0100
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > As some of you know I'm trying to integrate the Phorum messageboard
> > (www.phorum.org) into Back-end. Yesterday I've made some first attempts 
>at
> > it. This using the BE_survey.php file as a example. (Uses PHP's output
> > buffering and includes).
> >
> > This allowed me to get started with it and get a feeling on how the 
>Phorum
> > code is build.
> > Basically each function is written in a seperate php file. Some basic
> > functions are present in common.php. But all the rest are standalone. So
> > no OO or functions calls we can use. There also is no central index file
> > that controls the flow, so a typical phorum page contains links to a lot
> > of different files.
>
>phorum5 has a script for integrating into other scripts that does call all 
>of those
>scripts from central index file.  I think we can just capture that output 
>using output
>buffering.  It's been awhile since I've looked at it.
>
>I would suggest integrating phorum5 as a start instead of the current 
>stable stuff.
>It is a complete rewrite.
>
> > Templates is very simple, they just include a header and footer into the
> > output.
>
>This is how I integrated phorum into phpslash.  I changed the headers to 
>use the
>phpslash config files, header, columns and footer.  Here are some old 
>patches:
>
>[ 541835 ] Phorum w/ phpSlash look and feel.
>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=541835&group_id=10566&atid=310566
>
>and an older:
>
>[ 541701 ] Simple Phorum header and footer files.
>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=541701&group_id=10566&atid=310566
>
>phorum5 does have its own templating system.  We may be able to tack some 
>stuff in
>there easier.  It compiles the templates to php and caches them.  I think 
>you can
>have phpblocks in the templates, but I'm not sure.
>
> > For DB they use a abstraction layer (nothing standard).
> >
>
>At one time I had a phplib abstraction file for phorum5.  It's not too 
>hard.  I
>think Brian made a couple of changes that I suggested along the way.
>
> > As I understand it Back-end needs it's content passed (using a variable,
> > function, ...). So there are some strategies to make Phorum integrate 
>into
> > Backend :
> >
> > 1) Make a "index" file ourself that intercepts all links made on phorum
> >    pages and use those to select to correct page to include.
> >    Problems : we need to parse the get arguments and forward those and
> >               edit each file to change all <a> tags.
> > 2) Make functions for each phorum file and have a "index" file that 
>calls
> >    the required function. So we don't need to parse the get arguments.
> >    Problems : a lot of rewriting, we still could use PHP output 
>buffering
> >               to reduce that workload.
> > 3) Rewrite it into a "real" Backend module/plugin with a class file
> >    containing all functions. This allows to rewrite all stuff to use
> >    Back-end provided functions (DB, Session, cookies,...)
> >    Problems : a lot ot work, no real quick results.
> >
>
>Yeah.  I didn't get this far yet.
>
> > So now for discussion. Did I miss another way to do this. What is the 
>best
> > option to choose. As I see it, it will be nearly impossible to make the
> > ingration work without touching any of the phorum files. So for me at 
>the
> > moment I'm more going for option 3.
> >
>
>That was my conclusion with the stable tree too.  The authorization can be 
>done.
>You can patch the login process to preauth BE/PSL.  Then change the login 
>links to
>the phorum login page.  I got this to work.  I wanted to auth phorum using 
>the
>phplib auth, but went the brute force way to get something working.  I 
>never
>consolidated registration.
>
>At this point I decided to wait till phorum5 was more stable.  At the time 
>it was
>only in cvs and not near any kind of release.
>
> > Any other ideas, sugggestions, ...
> >
>
>I would like to help get phorum5 working as psl0.8 module first.  This is 
>one of
>the modules I want available when psl0.8 is released.
>
>After that, maybe help. backport to BE0.7
>
>thanks,
>
>Joe

(Sorry for the long un-clean post ... but... kept it for consistency...)

IMHO it's  a lot easier to integrate phpBB and it's a lot nicer than Phorum:

Examples:
phpslash: http://www.latinomixed.com
phpBB: http://foro.latinomixed.com


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