Posted by Jeffrey Rosen on January 9th, 2009 at 1:23 am:

This is awesome. How about going the other way though… Is it possible to make an account on my phpbb3 forum through a standard API? As much as I love my forums, they are not the central part of my website.

Posted by EXreaction on January 9th, 2009 at 2:58 am:

To add a user easily in 3.0.x you can use the user_add function in includes/functions_user.php

Posted by bobo on January 9th, 2009 at 1:33 pm:

From the end users point to whom are this application focusing?

Have a look on,
gallery2 with drupal bridge

joomla with phpbb3

vbulletin with drupal bridge
etc.

Why not point or focus on smth like drupal’s phpBBforum Integration module?
for the main cms out there instead of reinventing things over and over again?

[ edited by Highway of Life :: links removed ]

Posted by legohalflife2man on January 10th, 2009 at 4:36 pm:

I love using phpBB3’s sessions and templates on my website, and this article is great for users who are trying to do just that. phpBB3 saved me a lot of time on my latest website by allowing me to make my website and forum one using phpBB3’s session system. It’s funny because I was just thinking about this. 🙂

Posted by Martin Truckenbrodt on January 10th, 2009 at 6:55 pm:

Hello,

Use forum content to power your homepage

It’s a little strange to read this on a blog. 😉

In past I was thinking that phpBB should be possible to easily integrate into a website. Now I think different. But I’m not a friend of poratl systems. It’s only my personal taste!

But I’m missing some validated standard AddOns by now – e.g. like: Photo Gallery, Categorised Link Database, same to a Download database, …, …, …

Then nobody needs Joomla or others! 😉
Let the bulletin board be the master application! 🙂

Bye Martin

-bbcode + html — jm

Posted by Marius van Rijnsoever on January 19th, 2009 at 12:23 am:

phpBB3 is an amazing software due to the hooks that allow for the seamless integration of sessions and content into any software. A HUGE thank you to the developers of phpBB3 for doing such an amazing job.

For Joomla users you can use JFusion to do all the hard work of session integration and visual integration of phpBB3 into Joomla. This way you don’t have to know anything about PHP or programming, but still take advantage of phpBB3 awesome features.

Thanks, Marius

Posted by Dennis Leahy on January 21st, 2009 at 3:45 am:

Be advised that session integration means that your other pages must be php, not ASP, ASPX, etc. etc. So, if you are strating from scratch and want full site integration, build your entire site in php.

Unfortunately, php sessions (evidently) cannot be integrated with other types of sessions. For example, if you have an ASP website, and decide to add pbpBB3 as a site feature, you will not be integrating your site. (If someone knows that is wrong, please contact me – I’m all ears. I had to write a secondary and completely separate log-in for password protected ASP pages. I’d love to scrap it, if only I could get the php session variables written out to the ASP server.)

Posted by ssnobben on January 21st, 2009 at 9:50 am:

I think its better that phpBB concentrate on many things around its forum and integrate with Joomla content management system instead but as a stand alone products.

Make those two GPL script working seamlessly with user syncing focusing as now possible with integrators like Jfusion. http://www.jfusion.org

Why invent the wheel again when its so much power and user support behind Joomla?

Posted by Carlos on January 30th, 2009 at 4:03 pm:

Hi. Sorry about my bad English.

We implemented session integration with phpbb in our site ShertonEnglish.com and the experience was really wonderful. We manage now more than 100K users and we use the phpbb groups in order to give access to different kind of user to restricted areas. We are also using the multilanguage system for the entire site.

Recently, we do some mods over the mass mail system and now we are using it for sending English lessons in html to about 10K users daily.

Every day we discover new phpbb functionality that helps us improving our site.

Thank you all

Carlos

removed links- Darcie

Posted by Scorpiedawn2 on February 11th, 2009 at 6:58 am:

I saw this language learning website with Skype for people to practice languages using messengers. The whole website seems to be built with phpbb.

Posted by IceBrain on February 23rd, 2009 at 1:20 pm:

Hi, not to diss on you, I think PhpBB is great as a forum, but should it be used as a global auth system? Building a website user auth using PhpBB API would leave it completely dependent.
What if the user decides to close its forum or switch to another system? He would be forced to mantain a “closed” PhpBB installation just to keep its auth system.
I know this guide is helpfull to a lot of people, but try to warn them about the inevitable lock-in that this would cause.
Maybe you could separate your Auth API into a individual lib, which PhpBB would use, so the user would only need to mantain a simple php file and a couple of DB tables instead of a full install.

Posted by Alex on February 24th, 2009 at 4:19 pm:

Yes, session integration is a great advantage.

But what about existing sites that allready have user management? It would be a huge pain to change the user system to phpbb.

“Give your website the look and feel of your forum” No. It should be the other way arround: give your forum the look and feel of your website.
A forum is a secondary part to some sites, something aditional.

Thanks, Alex

Posted by wGEric on February 25th, 2009 at 8:34 pm:

You can use phpBB’s Authentication Plugins. I’ve used those on a number of sites to make it so phpBB uses the existing website’s sessions.

Posted by RedScourge on March 30th, 2009 at 4:58 pm:

Should be able to integrate session stuff between ASP and PHP via something fancy like XMLRPC. You’d need to make some sort of script that takes a login session in one and creates a matching session in the other. Not so impossible if your sessions are stored in the DB.

Posted by Theme Create on May 11th, 2009 at 2:09 am:

This is exactly what I was looking for. Joomla is a top notch CMS and this is a perfect example why.

Posted by Kipper on July 22nd, 2009 at 7:43 pm:

Part of what the author is talking about is a single sign-on to make the user experience better.

We’re using wordpress right now and need integrate phpBB into it as a single-sign-on service. How would one accomplish this?

Posted by Mac on August 4th, 2009 at 5:18 pm:

The phpBB team should hit Google with some searches about integration. There are many, many people trying to figure out how to build phpBB into ASP.NET-based sites. This should come as no surprise, it’s a common-enough question even in phpBB’s own forums.

Real-world requirements are rarely best-served by a site built around a forum. Typically the forum is there as an adjunct to some other purpose. Additionally, on a relative basis, PHP itself just isn’t that popular. In fact, I’d say PHP owes most of its success to phpBB. Unfortunately, I’d say the phpBB team’s expertise with PHP leads to the old problem of, “To a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”

Everyone seems to agree that phpBB is the best forum solution available. Opening it up to the bigger world outside of PHP would seem to be a logical next step.

I reluctantly had to pass on a phpBB installation recently for a very large ASP.NET project. I screwed around with some integration tricks but they were all fairly unsatisfying and I didn’t want to deal with the long-term implications of hoping they’d continue to work in new versions of ASP.NET, .NET, PHP, and phpBB. Too many hacks.

Give us non-PHP types an API. All you have to lose is your inaccessibility…

Posted by Maher on August 27th, 2010 at 8:15 am:

Me want to generate single login system throughout my website,its done,but the single issue arise,after login in phpbb3,page redirects after some time,not redirect directly to my main site,is there any solution

Posted by Anton on September 9th, 2010 at 8:02 am:

Hi all,

Excuse me if my technical descriptions aren’t up to scratch, but I’m not a web designer, and am trying to pick up things as I go along!

I’m running a PHPBB forum on my website, which works quite well.

The home page and all other pages of my site has been done in dreamweaver using header and footer templates.

I would like to eventually make my site such that it would be registration based …. free for users to browse through, until a certian point, then users must be registered to dig further in to information.

I want to use PHP to power this, as I have a good forum with over 3000 registered users and about 3000 posts. I don’t want users to have to re-register, and I don’t want to lose any of the forum content …. so this means changing the rest of my site to suit the forum. (The rest of the site has about 100 pages!)

Is this something that can be done??
Has anyone got any experience of doing something similar?

Cheers,
Anton