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Comments on: Advantages of session integration https://blog.phpbb.com/2009/01/09/advantages-of-session-integration/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:02:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: Anton https://blog.phpbb.com/2009/01/09/advantages-of-session-integration/#comment-34791 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:02:29 +0000 http://www.phpbb.com/blog/?p=242#comment-34791 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

]]> By: Maher https://blog.phpbb.com/2009/01/09/advantages-of-session-integration/#comment-34308 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:15:28 +0000 http://www.phpbb.com/blog/?p=242#comment-34308 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 ]]> By: Mac https://blog.phpbb.com/2009/01/09/advantages-of-session-integration/#comment-8775 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:18:22 +0000 http://www.phpbb.com/blog/?p=242#comment-8775 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…

]]> By: Kipper https://blog.phpbb.com/2009/01/09/advantages-of-session-integration/#comment-8465 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:43:40 +0000 http://www.phpbb.com/blog/?p=242#comment-8465 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?

]]> By: Theme Create https://blog.phpbb.com/2009/01/09/advantages-of-session-integration/#comment-4955 Mon, 11 May 2009 02:09:00 +0000 http://www.phpbb.com/blog/?p=242#comment-4955 This is exactly what I was looking for. Joomla is a top notch CMS and this is a perfect example why. ]]> By: RedScourge https://blog.phpbb.com/2009/01/09/advantages-of-session-integration/#comment-2795 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:58:59 +0000 http://www.phpbb.com/blog/?p=242#comment-2795 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. ]]> By: wGEric https://blog.phpbb.com/2009/01/09/advantages-of-session-integration/#comment-1315 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:34:40 +0000 http://www.phpbb.com/blog/?p=242#comment-1315 In reply to Alex.

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.

]]> By: Alex https://blog.phpbb.com/2009/01/09/advantages-of-session-integration/#comment-1265 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:19:02 +0000 http://www.phpbb.com/blog/?p=242#comment-1265 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

]]> By: IceBrain https://blog.phpbb.com/2009/01/09/advantages-of-session-integration/#comment-1215 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:20:37 +0000 http://www.phpbb.com/blog/?p=242#comment-1215 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. ]]> By: Scorpiedawn2 https://blog.phpbb.com/2009/01/09/advantages-of-session-integration/#comment-735 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:58:56 +0000 http://www.phpbb.com/blog/?p=242#comment-735 I saw this language learning website with Skype for people to practice languages using messengers. The whole website seems to be built with phpbb. ]]>