 Complete bi-directional integration of phpBB 3 forum with Joomla! CMS.
Forum is displayed inside Joomla! template as usual component.
No hacks of core files. Community Builder and JomSocial integration. XMap plugin.
Powerful FireBoard(Kunena)-to-phpBB3 forum converter.
Joomla!-to-phpBB and phpBB-to-Joomla! users converters with support of JomSocial and Community Builder avatars and profile fields.
SEF URLs and enhanced SEO for the forum.
Basic forum customization and modification options.
Features
- Installed as usual Joomla! extension
- Works in frameless mode (displays phpBB as usual Joomla! component inside your Joomla! template, special phpBB templates are required) and in standalone mode (any phpBB template can be used)
- No hacks to Joomla! or phpbb3 is required
- Bi-directional synching of login/logout in either Joomla! or phpbb Bi-directional synchronization of registrations in either Joomla! or phpbb
- Bi-directional synching of changing profile data in either Joomla! or phpbb including language and timezone settings
- Bi-directional synching of Backend user manager in either Joomla! or phpbb (add/edit/delete/block/unblock/activate actions)
- Silent account transfer of either Joomla! or phpBB user after logging in either Joomla! or phpBB
- Most phpBB profile-related changes are triggered by Joomla! user plugins - certain Joomla! 3rd-party extensions are able to synchronize the profile data after changing forum profile
- SEF URLs (not all and not 100%)
- Extra SEO features: using forum's descriptions and topics first post as meta description
- Forum titles aliases for URLs
- Configurable page title structure - ability to choose first word
- Ability to skip phpBB info pages after login/logout in the forum
- Joomla! pathway can be inherited from phpBB
- Ability to use Joomla! articles as phpBB registration introtext, "Terms of use" and "Privacy policy" text
- Ability to store phpBB avatar data in jos_users table
- Ability to assign any phpBB custom profile field to Joomla! "Name" field
- Ability to redirect phpBB registration and lost password to Joomla! equivalents, phpBB profile to any URL
- Redirecting of forum user profile to Community Builder or JomSocial profile
- phpBB login and registration restrictions are applied in Joomla!
- Integration of WebSnapr bubbling screenshots for the links in topic posts (demo is here)
- Community Builder basic support (users created and deleted in the forum are created and deleted in Community Builder) + advanced integration (avatars, profile fields and connections synchronization, PM links in CB profile and login module, phpBB signature field type, posts count and rank image in CB status area), user's forum posts tab
- JomSocial basic integration (users registered in JomSocial are created in phpBB) + advanced integration (avatars, profile fields and connections synchronization, user's forum posts application, forum links in profile menu, auto-creating of phpBB forums and groups for JomSocial groups, synchronizing groups join, leave and delete, link to phpBB group's forum in JomSocial group page)
- JomSocial application displays user's posts in his profile
- AlphaUserPoints integration
- Powerful Fireboard-to-phpBB3 forum converter (FireBoard 1.0.3-1.0.5RC1 or Kunena 1.0.8b required)
- Powerful Joomla!-to-phpBB3 users converter with support of Fireboard, JomSocial and Community Builder avatars, mapping of JomSocial and Community Builder profile fields to phpBB fields
- Powerful phpBB3-to-Joomla! users converter with support of JomSocial and Community Builder avatars, mapping of phpBB fields to JomSocial or Community Builder profile fields
- Extension plugin for Xmap sitemap
- Ability to use current Joomla! language in phpBB (phpBB language can be switched via JoomFish)
- Fast and elegant, no additional database queries are executed upon none-account related actions
- Detailed installation instructions are supplied
- Highly-configurable 'Latest Activity' module
- Highly-configurable 'Forum Tags' module
- Joomla! search plugin for searching phpBB forum
- 30% discount for "p8pbb comments" extension
The bridge comes with build-in powerful Fireboard/Kunena-to-phpBB3 converter, which carefully converts all Fireboard data including smilies, ranks, attachments, users, moderators and avatars from either Community Builder or Fireboard. Converter can be used for converting large Fireboard forums (tested on forum with 5000+ members and 25000+ replies).
Frameless mode requires using of special phpBB templates. The main purpose of this is to create the proper HTML structure and avoid CSS conflicts with the Joomla! template. We have modified standard phpBB templates and in most cases they will feet your Joomla! template, though we don't guarantee that and some small CSS modifications can be required from your side. Special phpBB templates are supplied - jProSilver and jSubSilver. Note that we don't sell these templates. Any phpBB3 template can be modified to be used in frameless mode. Our demo forum works with the bridge and uses frameless mode, you can switch modified templates in your forum profile right here.
Requirements
- Joomla! 1.5.9-1.5.x installed and working correctly
- phpBB 3.0.7+ installed and working correctly
- Apache 1.3+ webserver with mod_rewrite, also working correctly. May work on IIS with mod_rewrite like http://www.micronovae.com/ModRewrite/ModRewrite.html
- PHP 5.2+ with register_globals Off
- MySQL 5
- "mysql" database drivers for both Joomla! and phpBB
- Enabled Joomla! options "Search Engine Friendly URLs", "Use Apache mod_rewrite"
- Joomla! and phpBB should be installed at the same domain
- Joomla! should be installed in the root domain folder (i.e. http://site.com, not http://site.com/joomla/), phpBB should be installed in the first-level domain folder (i.e. http://site.com/phpBB3, not http://site.com/joomla/phpBB3/)
- phpBB GZip compression should be off
- Few lines of code should be added in Joomla! .htaccess file
- Usernames shouldn't be allowed to be changed by user in both systems (possible to change it only in Backend)
- Special phpBB templates for frameless bridge mode (adopted prosilver and subsilver2 are supplied)
- Advanced CB integration requires CB 1.2.2+
- ionCube loaders for PHP installed and working correctly (more info here)
- The price includes 1 year none-recurrent subscription. Support, downloads of product add-ons and new versions will be available within this subscription period.
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Fireboard Copyright (C) 2006 - 2007 Best Of Joomla, All rights reserved.
JomSocial Copyright (C) 2007 - 2009 JomSocial.com. All rights reserved.
Joomla! Copyright (C) Open Source Matters Inc. All rights reserved.
AlphaUserPoints Copyright (C) 2008-2009 - alphaplug.com. All right reserved.
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