VBulletin or PhpBB Mod?

Having a good, feature rich and bug free forum is going to be a must for me. The Orca forum just isn't going to cut the mustard. Is anyone out there working on adapting the Phpbb or Vbulletin forum into a mod that can be added to Dolphin 7?

I would be willing to pay substantially for a mod like this as I am sure many others also would be. I have posted on this before and I never seem to get any response to it. It can't be that large of an undertaking for someone with competent php skills.

Anyone?

At some point in time i may work on a PHPBB3 mod. But that will be a while off in my plans, and someone else may end up doing it before me.

Trust me, someone will do one. They were done for D6.

Personally i never liked how the intergration works. And d7 complicates it as the groups now use the forums as well.

So i was actually thinking of writing my own native replacement for orca from scratch. Big project though so i have not yet made up my mind what i am going to do.

I appreciate the response. (finally). I think Dolphin is a terrific project but it is painfully obvious to me that Orca was an afterthought created to fill a hole. The amount of bugs that currently exist in it are fairly ridiculous and the function of the forum reminds me of text forums from the 80's.

Having a competent forum code is a MUST for any successful community, especially one like mine (a non dating site) where the posts can become very long and detailed. My current forum sports 15 major categories with over 100 topic and sub topic titles containing many thousands of posts. Managing a forum that size requires a few basic features that are just not present in Orca.

PhpBB would be an ok choice but if I had to choose, I would probably prefer VBulletin. My current forum code is based on .asp and is a very powerful forum. The entire portal was designed around it. I would never have moved away from it but the SooP community of which I was a member for many years has fallen apart and gone the way of so many other user supported sites.

A good forum integration would do much to bolster the Dolphin project. I was surprised by the lack of interest the developers have shown in this particular part of Dolphin. It makes no sense to me at all.

It's not lack of interest for the most part. D7 is new, and most developers, including myself did not want to start mods until the final was released for obvious reasons.

Now D7 is very complex, So it will take time for the developers to learn the code before any project that complex can even begin.

It will take time before developers have something out.

Maybe we need to push the powers that be to accelerate the creation of an api for D7. This would simplify the whole process of mod development wouldn't it?

Fat chance, we can't even get the devs to venture into the forums anymore for support.  Bugs are everywhere both here and in D7, premium member features aren't working (for me which I may ask paypal for refund), boonex support is completely non-existent, documentation for D7 is virtually non-existent, and I can go on.  For them to take time out to create an API is a pipedream at this point.

LOL, that's funny you should say that as I am trying to open a search window in the forums here and it just keeps reloading the forum topics page....

try clearing your cache and call this URL

http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/#action=goto&search=1

Yeah, I figured that out a while ago. I just right click the link, save then open in a new browser window. What a pain in the ass. Every day i get more frustrated. At some point, I'm just going to say F%$&& it and go build something else.

I found out there really isn't a complete list of file and folder permissions anywhere. The install feature only helps you with some of them and I have had to go in manually and adjust several folders just to get some of the mods to install. Now I'm getting a error 403 when i try and upload a video and cannot figire out which file or folder is denying the access.

Of course, a search for that error message brings me nothing usable from the lame asses search engine that exists here.

Excuse my language. I'm just a dirty old tow truck driver who steals cars for a living ...

I'd prefer a new forum solution myself.

Orca is so horrible, I've launched a new forum called The Worst Forum, and it's powered by Orca. So far, I'm getting reports about how horrible it is to register, and how you can't always login. God bless those users who re-register because they've forgotten their password.

I'm also hearing about how it's a tug-of-war match to post in a topic, and when someone posts some Javascript, there's allot more fun to be had.

And the logo of Orca, well, when at a small size, it looks rather naughty.

(Try reading this with an over-joyous British accent)

LOL! I would LOVE to hear you repeat that in your Brityish accent. maybe tyou could record yourself and upload it to your Dolphin. (wink)

Eh, got nothing to add.

I, too, am looking for a vBulletin integration module.  We scrapped Orca a long time ago when users had problems running Vista and McAffee or their computers were not up to date.  MyBB does support groups but not as well as I would like. I have over 200,000 posts in the forums.  The problem is that my version of MyBB is older and there was a new version to speed it up.  If I am going to pay the cost of that, I would rather go to vBulletin.

I would even be happy to keep Orca as the group forums and also have vBulletin running as the main forum.  The problem with vBulletin are all the critical updates so I would not only pay for the module but also for the update installs...and there are a lot of them.

Here is a phpBB3 integration mod. http://www.expertzzz.com/Downloadz/view/6977

However I paid for this mod 2 days ago, and still have NO access to download it...even after sending 4 e-mails to the author!!!

There is a phpbb3 and vbulletin mod in the market, i've asked for a demo to see how well it works

@ozidoggy you really are SOL at expertzzz as Alex's blog said it was being shut down and all access to download being turned off.  You'll probably have to get the file directly from the author.  If you don't hear anything in a few days dispute it with paypal and purchase the one in market if you want a mod.

you won't get to download it they will install it for you

I don't understand what the big draw to phpbb is.... it doesn't have a wysiwyg editor.  Your average member isn't going to like all the BB code.

I think mainly due to the fact it's the most touted "free" and complex php based bulletin system out there.  There are others that are butter in my opinion, but people like it, make mods for it, and it seems to work for a vast majority of site admins (not necessarily site users as you point out).  Also I know there are a good many free or very cheap host that offer phpbb already installed.

Ouch - $200 for the Vbulliten mod and $175 for the phpBB mod in the market.  Too much for me.  Why don't they price these things so they are more affordable? 

The $50 one at expertzzz is more in my budget.

Can you pm me the one on expertzzz, last I checked it was only for dolphin 6.

http://www.expertzzz.com/Downloadz/view/6977

you should buy it and let me install it for you and in return i get to keep a copy  heheh

More afordable.

You have any idea how much time is involved in makeing these things.

BB code is not that hard to get used to. I ran a phpbb forum for quite awhile, and my myspace clone site i did a few years back i delebertly designed the groups to use BB code. I had no complaints.

I got all excited when you mentioned a vBulletin integration for only $200, until I looked at it in the Market.  No public demo, and you have to allow them to rifle through your files and DB..... FTS.

I can understand the work, but I look at it this way.  Why price something at $200 and sell one copy, if you could price it $50 and sell 10 copies?

This is something I would like, but at $200, i'd have to pass on it. 

Hey!  Why not price it at $10, and sell 50 copies??!!!  I swear.... I'm a marketing genius.

if the installation is done correctly, there shouldnt be much requirement after the installation has been completed for support.

just my thoughts on that.

in D6 once phpbb3 was installed, there were no huge problems, if it was a true integration. phpbb sort of runs itself as well as the other forum packages. so the integration would really be all you would have to provide, not any long standing support, other than providing updates and or upgrades, but that should be able to be ran through the bulletin board application, and not necessarily have any true impactable bearing on the dolphin software.

also, one question, for you, since this is a high cost item, is this item going to be certified by boonex as an approved mod? if you get this product certified, you will most likely be more apt to hit those high digit numbers.

Regards,

DosDawg

1. Why don't you have a link to a demo?

2. Why must we let you poke around in our database, and give you access to our entire site to install the mod?  That's BS.  I'd consider buying that mod if you didn't have such a ridiculous stipulation placed on it.

Where can I read about this mod you are selling? Can you please provide a link? And as HL also said, a demo would be nice!

Are there really people out there dumb enough to give access to their vBulletin license code, complete server access and all passwords stored in the various scripts, access to every database on the server, etc, to a complete stranger?  Hard to believe people can be that stupid.

I understand you wanting to protect your code, but there are better ways to do it than mistrusting your customers.  There are plenty of php encoders that will do that for you, and you can personalize the mods so that they only run on a single domain.

Understandable to protect ones code, but installing it for someone as the only option is not a perfect solution either. There are plenty of people that will figure it out if they really want to. Most mods for sale are traded, given away, sold for a fraction of the original price, and passed along in one manner or other that it don't matter if you sell them for cheap or a lot. Neither means more sales. Encoding would be ideal. I wouldn't give up total access for a mod at any price. If I purchase a mod, and one that isn't exactly cheap if I do not get the entire install for myself then I do not need it that bad. Encode it and give the full installation, provide un-encode full install, or figure out a better solution.

http://www.ioncube.com

Why do you have to verify and record someone for a demo? 

You set up D7, install your mod, and you're done.  Let people come in, sign up to the demo site, and they check it out and see how it well it works.  It does work, right? 

Oops! He came here to sell expensive over-priced service and now has to buy that software first? 

But you're all right, it is ridiculous to give out all the logins, and passwords. By the way, my host has no access to my site except that he can change things on the server, but not on my site. They always asked me for login to access a problem, after the problem's solved I change the pw again.

Anybody any experience with yabb forums? I used to test them before and I was very impressed, it's free too. In cPanel you have them on one click installation.

Ironcube is good and I believe Dolphin is using ZendEncoder themselves to encrypt that ever so important code on the index page that makes the site work or not work.

I would suggest staying away from this mod!

Screwed up my site trying to install it. Sent 4 e-mails asking for advice, and not 1 response. I have totally uninstalled it and spent hours cleaning the rubbish out of my database.

Now to try get my money back.... PayPal here I come!

http://www.expertzzz.com/Downloadz/view/6977

If your script take 3 to 5 days to install, you can keep it.  I don't think the script really exists.... why else would you not give a public link to a demo.  The only possible reason for you refusing to  post a public demo, is that you don't want anyone giving opinions on how well your mod works.  You are definitely hiding something.

Posting a link to a demo should be a mandatory requirement for posting mods in the Market.

i would rather pay boonex $ 200 for a mod that integrates any of the following forums vb, phpbb, ipb

I'd pay a lot more than that for an IPB integration.

they want you to buy a cat in a sack

More like a pig in a poke

Houston, if I had to guess I would say they are using someone elses mod to do the integration.. they are affraid if they give the demo link the person will be able to see it is their code. Ease maybe?

I hadn't thought of that, but you're probably right.   I really think a live demo should be a requirement for posting a mod.  No reputable coder would have a problem with this.

Now HL they don't have a stolen script.  They're just so busy with all those spam posts in the blogs that it's taking so long to get it done. 

Personally, I've done the phpBB3 Integration script many, many, many, many, many, many times and it takes about an hour.  Curious as to what your doin' that takes 3-5 days.  Perhaps handwriting all the code for each site?  Hint:  Writing the code once, placing it in files and then uploading or copy/pasting the changes works very well.

Next up:  If you think that I'd give you access to my sites with all the items they have in them for you to screw them up (you say your a professional, but so does Larry The Cable Guy) then you've got another idea traveling up your spine from your arse.  I believe they call it a brain fart.

 Your missing a few things here DFB:

1.  Noone cares about customer comments, to many fake customer comments are put up all the time.

2.  You were asked for a demo site.  That means a D7 Install with your mod fully integrated into it.  Not a link with pics, but something users can test out and decide if they want to risk it.

3.  For once your actually on topic here.  Though you shouldn't offer the discount, but you are on topic and NOT spamming for once.  The topic is phpBB or VBulletin.  So post a link that we can go  to and see this working for ourselves, ensure a much faster install time and you might actually sell some of this.  Right now, your lettin' your temper out and it's just not workin' for ya old boy, few can do it and your not one of them. 

Funny thing is... if I had seen a demo, I would probably have bought the vBulletin mod.   But since this yoyo is being so secretive about a demo, I wouldn't touch this mod with someone else's ten foot pole.

Sure... we'll just buy  it sight unseen, because we're stupid.

Gee thanks.  A link to a phpbb forum which I care nothing about, and a link to a site that can not be accessed.  I think the reason you don't have a link to a vBulletin Demo, is because there IS no demo.

I'll have it for you in a few hours D7 with vbulletin

Gee thanks.  A link to a phpbb forum which I care nothing about, and a link to a site that can not be accessed.  I think the reason you don't have a link to a vBulletin Demo, is because there IS no demo.

any update on this ?..

I would love to have a full copy of Vbulletin modded into my site. It is worth the money to me to have the best and most powerful solution....

Mr Bug Fixer can't even come up with a demo of the so called vBulletin mod.  I don't think it exists.  That's probably why it's on sale.  Like I said, I wouldn't touch Mr bug fixers mods with someone else's ten foot pole.

Right now I'd kill for an IPB integration... no one seems to be interested in doing it.

I've contemplated murder for similar reasons, myself. I was working on an integration of Invision Power Board 2.3.6 into Dolphin 6.1.6, but I gave-up on it after running into some issues. What I can't seem to understand, though, is with all these integrations of phpBB and vBulleten, why the hell isn't there any integrations for Invision Power Board beyond an uncompleted and abandoned attempt (besides my own)?

did he say few hours or few days ?...

Maybe he's writing the module?

he has it on sale wouldn't that mean it should already exist lol

Exactly.

right now we can only show D6 vbulletin, D6 phpbb and D7 phpbb install totally replace orca, just pm me

with D7 we need to purchase a license for vbulletin just for our demosite, because as of now we cant showcase our customers with D7 vbulletin install.

I'm really at a loss for words.  Maybe y'all can think of some for me.

Here's a link to the infamous vBulletin integration for D6 Folks

http://www.extremewatercross.net/forum/forum.php


As I expected, this person does not currently have a vBulletin mod for D7, although he states exactly that in the Market ad.

I have a friend with a copy of IPB. I am going to take a look at this for a while and see if i can come up with something.

I am not making any promises. But i will look. Seems some people are willing to pay some serious cash for this, so i should at least take a peek.

Yes, I am willing to pay some serious cash.  I don't even need or want the groups and events forums integrated... just the main forum... that would probably be more trouble than it's worth.  If you're serious about taking a look at this, I can provide a copy of IPB 3.0.5 and some other developers stuff.  The terms of my IPB license allow one test installation, as long as it is not accessible to the general public. 

I can't officially launch my site without this.

What about ESASE's mod for PhpBB?  It's only $50 and there is a demo site.  Anyone using that yet?

I took a peek.  In my opinion, it is total garbage.  I wouldn't install that one if it were free.

I made the mistake of purchasing the above mod!!!!..Lesson learnt! I ended up going for the D7 PHPBB integration by dolphinbugfixing. Although expensive.. They did an EXCELLENT job.

what was wrong with the first one ?...

I installed it..it screwed up my site and DB. Took 2 days and 5 e-mails just to get the download link. When seeking suport because It screwed up my site...I couldn't get a reply after sending 4 urgent e-mails! Took more than 24 hours to get him to reply. Granted that these authors do not offer 24 hour support for mods.. but when my site was screwed up.. I needed urgent support.  It took me hours going through my database just to get all the rubbish out of it.

I just didn't trust support after that. So decided to go with the other.

I'm going to take a break from all of this talk of other forum solution to say: for the love of whoever, why doesn't Orca have support for pages in topics? Following these kind of discussions is just awful.

No sorry..  no matter how much I was unhappy with his service.. I will not breach his purchase agreement. If you want to try it..pay for it sorry.

so i can make the same mistake as you did no thx :)

C'mon, you know you wanna'.

Well, I broke down and bought esase's PHPbb mod.  So far so good.  The install was easy.  All the members accounts show up in phpBB.  Avatars didn't show up automatically, but if you delete yours in D7 and upload it again, it did show up in phpBB.  Clicking on a profile in phpBB will bring you back to their profile in D7.  Registration in phpBB brings you to D7 registration. 

It does create a new HTML block for new forum posts on the home page, so you will end up with both Orca and phpBB new posts there.  Also a new line in site stats called forum posts, so discussions from Orca will list as well.  I would guess that uninstalling Orca would fix that problem.

The default forum tab still brought up Orca, so I went in to the navigation menu setup and found a new block was created but not made active, so I dragged that up and had forum access from the tab now.  In runs in a window in D7, but I found if I change the link to the phpBB folder, it will run full screen.  Haven't tested if that will cause a problem or not.

I've just put it out for the members, so i'll see how it goes when a few posts start turning up. 

I'll update as it gets used...

U can disable all orca blocks in the homepage and profile. Do it from the builders section. unmark for guests and members.

Really? Someone has a working PHP forum mod that will integrate into D7? I need more details please ...

I already disabled the blocks, but the site stats will still show up and a member could still gain access from the stats.  Not an issue since an uninstall of Orca will get rid of that.

I just went and tested his board. The first thing I noticed is even though the phpbb forum knows you are a member of the site, it does not autolog you if you are already logged into the site. You can log in, log out of the forum and it has no effect on your surrent site status.

Also, I tried to make a post but it was unsuccessful. Saved it as a draft that I could not find afterwards. I also noticed that even though there have been at least 100 viewers to the site, there is not one single post. This tells me everyone else is having the same issue I am. I couldn't even leave a post describing my issue. It is a fair integration but far from seamless.

It's the $50 version the "esase" has. I have it installed with the stock skin, and all seems well so far.  I'm a startup site with only a few forum users, so i'm waiting for them to come in and try it out.

If you want to check it out, my site is http://rubmybelly.net/

Posting is working from my site.  I'm able to log in and out from both D7 and phpBB at the same time.  There have been a few issues where it didn't work, but for some reason it was seeing the original admin password on the forum which was different than D7. 

Ok, this fishboard just dumped a long assed post of mine. I HATE that when it happens. You can never say what you wanted to say as good the second time around!

I just tried Esase's board. I have some issues.

1. The board does recognize me as a member of the site
2. The board does NOT recognize whether I am currently logged into the site and I have to log in to the board separately
3. The board does not seem to be working. I could not add a post. All it did was tell me it was saving a draft. A draft I could not find after it saved it.
4. I do not think the board is integrated far enough to take advantage of the site skins/css files and will probably have to be done separately.

Google Chrome strikes again!

LOL. Both of my previous posts did not display after I hit the post button and I thought they were lost! I had to log all the way out of the forum and back in before they became visible to me!

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Just needed to make sure I was HEARD this time!

im disappointed at boonex
why not provide a mod that will allow us to use one of this forums IPB. PHPBB.or VB top 3 forums out there

PHPFOX has it
PHPNUKE has it
JOOMLA has it
and many others ....


NOT TO MENTION WE ALSO HAVE MEMBERS THAT ARE WILLING TO KILL FOR AN IPB3 INTEGRATION

boonex an integration mod is needed people are willing to spend some serious money $$

 Try it on my site and see what happens.  I have posted there as an admin, and my sister has posted as a member with no problems.

Ok, since my timing was off because of this FRIKKIN FISHBOARD, I will try again and do a little more research... I'm still hoping to see a full & seamless integration of VBulletin....

It works very nicely. It still seems you need to login and logout separately but it does know who you are..... I suppose it's something I could deal with.

I'm able to log in on one side and find myself already logged into the other.  I also find that I log out of one side and i'm logged out of both.  I did have problems with seperate logins, but thought it was becase the forum side was still reading the password from the original install which was different from my Dolphin password.  I changed my password from the forum side and all works now. and I haven't had a seperate login.... yet.

A minor issue since most people probably check the box to stay logged in anyway.

I thought some guy was going to sort you out with this HL? The buddist fella with the long beard.?. He said he had lost contact with "you" some time back and his normal account was inaccessible due to memory lapse. Do not know Satori personally but seems to know his scat(greek)...

Or it might be the same issue you are having with the avatars. You are forced to change your passowrd and this updates the forum, it's not happening upon the initial membership creation process?

Anyway, I like it. It's ten times better than this FISHFORUM....

I had hoped that you as a new member would be different and wouldn't have the double login, but I guess not. 

It's a great improvment and a double login is not a problem as long as the accounts work and people can post.  And with the option to stay logged in makes it even easier.  For $50 it was worth it for me, and with phpBB being free, it fits even better.  If a vBulletin mod ever beomes available, and If I ever get to the point where I need to upgrade to vBulliten, at least they have an upgrade path from phpBB.  I'm compatible for a future upgrade if/when needed.

You're avatar showed up in the forum, so that problem is only for existing members, not new ones.  I can deal with that.

Yeah, I though of that after I posted that. The only thing left I need is a recent posts mod I can put on my front page. That would be the finishing touch

That's included!  Check my front page, it's under "Latest Forum Posts".  It also shows the persons recent posts under their profile too.

Very cool. Ok, one last question. What about sub categories?

 The pet discussions have one right now.  If you click on say the dog forum, you will be brought in to choose the general discussion area.  More can be added, I just haven't decided what to ad yet.  I'm looking at what other similar sites have, but trying not to totally copy them. 

OK! This one will work for me. I will be purchasing it. Thanks for all your input. Made my day getting rid of this FRIKKIN FISHFORUM (Can we say coin a phrase here?)

Rather than linking outward from D7, I'm connecting accounts I already have *into* D7 when needed.  I have a central membership outside of D7's database and use my own SSO connection process.  If in the future I want to migrate to a different platform, I would never worry about connecting D7 to some third party software.  I would just enable my SSO system to support that other software and handle everything as a go-between rather than a 1-off solution that I'd have to recode for every new piece of third party software I wanted to connect.

Still, depending on what you mean by "pay substantially", I might be able to help :)  I think it should be 1 step beyond a mod, though, and should essentially inherit the way D7 handles any linking to third-party software which uses a distinctly separate form of account & login tracking.  It should also work in reverse to be optimal.

I don't want to expose my contact details here, not sure if there's a way you can get in touch with me otherwise.

Ok, here's a weird sql error

Database error in

Query:

INSERT INTO phpbb_users  (username, username_clean, user_password, user_pass_convert, user_email, user_email_hash, group_id, user_type, user_permissions, user_timezone, user_dateformat, user_lang, user_style, user_allow_pm, user_actkey, user_ip, user_regdate, user_passchg, user_options, user_inactive_reason, user_inactive_time, user_lastmark, user_lastvisit, user_lastpost_time, user_lastpage, user_posts, user_dst, user_colour, user_occ, user_interests, user_avatar, user_avatar_type, user_avatar_width, user_avatar_height, user_new_privmsg, user_unread_privmsg, user_last_privmsg, user_message_rules, user_full_folder, user_emailtime, user_notify, user_notify_pm, user_notify_type, user_allow_viewonline, user_allow_viewemail, user_allow_massemail, user_sig, user_sig_bbcode_uid, user_sig_bbcode_bitfield, user_form_salt) VALUES ('SkyForum', 'skyforum', '54e939b8f40739c83eb01474051196030d9a00e8', 0, 'skyforum@towjobs.com', '-155752373220', 5, 3, '', '0', 'D M d, Y g:i a', 'en', '1', 1, '', '', 1265517119, 1265517119, 895, 0, 0, 1265517119, 0, 0, '', 0, 0, '', '', '', '', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -3, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, '', '', '', '50428d129a8d013a')

I looked in the database and the only thing I can see is unlike everything else in this table, the username and username_clean are exactly the same. All other entries like Anonymous, the username has the first letter capitalized and the username_clean doesn't. (Anonymous - anonymous) can it be that simple?

INSERT INTO phpbb_users  (username, username_clean, user_password, user_pass_convert, user_email, user_email_hash, group_id, user_type, user_permissions, user_timezone, user_dateformat, user_lang, user_style, user_allow_pm, user_actkey, user_ip, user_regdate, user_passchg, user_options, user_inactive_reason, user_inactive_time, user_lastmark, user_lastvisit, user_lastpost_time, user_lastpage, user_posts, user_dst, user_colour, user_occ, user_interests, user_avatar, user_avatar_type, user_avatar_width, user_avatar_height, user_new_privmsg, user_unread_privmsg, user_last_privmsg, user_message_rules, user_full_folder, user_emailtime, user_notify, user_notify_pm, user_notify_type, user_allow_viewonline, user_allow_viewemail, user_allow_massemail, user_sig, user_sig_bbcode_uid, user_sig_bbcode_bitfield, user_form_salt) VALUES ('SkyForum', 'skyforum', '54e939b8f40739c83eb01474051196030d9a00e8', 0, 'skyforum@towjobs.com', '-155752373220', 5, 3, '', '0', 'D M d, Y g:i a', 'en', '1', 1, '', '', 1265517119, 1265517119, 895, 0, 0, 1265517119, 0, 0, '', 0, 0, '', '', '', '', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -3, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, '', '', '', '50428d129a8d013a')

 Key 1 =>  username

Key 2 => username_clean

Yes, it can be that simple.  I take it your trying to import the Dolphin user list into phpBB3

well, I went into the database and changed it. Made no difference.

I think I might have found it. My username details have my email listed as skyforum@xxx.xxx and the integration is picking it up as admin@xxx.xxx

No clue why the integration would want to pick the site's e-mail addy as the user's e-mail.  What is the query that your trying to run?  Did you purchase this or is it your own your working on?  I'm curious here, haven't really seen a D7 phpBB3 that works yet. 

when you installed the forum what username did you pick Skyforum ?..
like mydatery said it looks like you're trying to import users

Purchased it. Got a chance to test it on another site. It works pretty well. eSASe has it up in the market. I played with it on his site and it seems pretty sturdy. just this one problem.

Oh, I see what you are saying now. I should have used something else since skyforum is already registered in my Dolphin. The baord is trying to import the dolphin data and that name already exists.

LOL, I'll just change my username in the phobb3 database to 'installer'. That should solve it right?

give it a try it should work also  i would change the e-mail :)

You guys are so gal danged smart~!

Worked perfectly. Sometimes this kind of logic just escapes me. maybe i need to breath more oxygen or sumthin... I get a menu item organized and I'll post the link so you can play with it

sounds good
mydatery and i will organize the bill and will send it to you hehehehe j/k :)

I can't get it to load. The page opens but there's no content and it's not showing up in admin/modules either. It shows as installed but can't get to it. Got to be a problem with that login name somehow...

mail me the link to your site if it's ok with you
you always have the option to start all over again LOL it might work this time

Thanks. I sent you the link. I been here for 10 hrs. I'm calling it quits till tomorrow. I think it'll work, I just need to install it 5 times like everything I add, lol.

it's weird it should load the forum regardless of the username issue you had but before you start deleting tables in DB,... try if you can access the forum directly  yoursite.com/forumlocation/index.php see if the login works 

I used admin as a user name in both D7 and phpBB.  I had no errors on the install. 

It's simple. I used the same admin username for both. When I installed the mod, I got the error message. The error happened because I did the phobb3_integration stuff before I installed the forum code, then when I ran the admin/modules install, it threw an exception because it was trying ti integrate a username from D7 that already existed in the phpbb3 data tables.

I think the trick is to install the phobb3 forum code, then remove the username form the database, then do the code updates (phpbb3_integration) and then install the mod from admin. That way, there would be no usernames for it to conflict with.

 The first thing I did was install phpBB, and the admin account gets created during the install.  Then I copied the intergation files over and then made all the manual changes in D7.  Then I did the module install inside D7.  The admin account already existed in phpBB since that's the first install and there was no conflicts because of it.

I just installed it yesterday. I found three issues:

1. Avatars do not show up in the forum

2. Friends do not show up in the forum user CP

3. There is no instruction on how to do iframe to integrate the forum

It was recommended by my agent and I am sending her questions and I have not got a resolutions yet.

Hi Denlem,
I saw you embed phpbb3 very nicely with your Dolphin7. Would you share how you did it? I also bought the Phpbb3 by esase and there is no instruction on how to integrate.

They said in the features that avatars and friends would brought over to the forums but mine did not brought over? Did yours?
Thanks a lots.

The instructions for the install are included with the zip file.  What it doesn't say is that you will have to deactivate the forum block in the navigation menu and bring up the new one that was created.  If you leave the old forum block there, it will still bring up the old forum. 

As far as avatars being brought over, I had that issue as well.  I did find that all the member needs to do is delete their avatar in D7 and then add it again.  When they do that, it will then show up in phpBB.  New members won't have to do that and their avatar will transfer.

My friends were transfered over, but they are all new friends after the phpBB integration.  If old friends didn't transfer, it may be like the avatar and they would need to be deleted and added again to show up in phpBB. 

Great info! Only a few words can save a lot of time running around and getting frustrated. Lolz.

Now after the integration, I can't log into the Admin Control Panel. :)

Admin control panel of phpBB?  I had that problem but I had used a different password setting up phpBB than in D7.   I used my original password and was able to log in.  I then changed it to both be the same and all is good.

I just integrated phpbb3 on my site...check it out www.kartingconnectdotcom

It turned out to be a FF3 issue. I checked phpbb3 forum and other people also have the same problem. It works OK with Safari.

However, I decided not to use the module for now because the iframe. I hope Esase or someone can do the template itegration by not using iframe because of the search engine issues and also it does not give a URL for each post or forum. People can't post a link to the top.

You don't have to keep the forum in a frame.  Just create a new navigation menu item and link it to the path to the forum.  I recently added that option on my site.  Check it out, you'll see Forums and ForumsFull.  Forums will keep it in a window in D7, ForumsFull will open a window and go full screen with the forum.

That is awesome! Though it is not 100% perfect yet, that would eleminate some of my concerns about the search engines and lack of urls and I can use it temporarily until finding a better way to do it. I am sure Esase or some of our experts here will find a way to do it without the iframe later on. I gave Esase a comment.

The only problem is when someone is on the ForumsFull, they don't have a navigation menu to get back to the main site but I'll check with folks at phpbb to see how I can put a stripped down menu on the phpbb3.

Great idea!

i purchased the phpbb mod but i'm having some problems that i'm waiting for esase to fix. the old posts do not show only the topic titles. it shows there are pages of posts there when you click on the old topic title, but there is no information there, its blank when you click it. you can ONLY see old posts that were done by the "admin" for everyone else, you can not see any of their old posts. only the new posts.  the avatars i can see when i'm logged in as the "admin" but i cant see them when i'm logged in as a regular member. as long as i can get all my old posts to show, and no broken images, then i will be happy with this mod in general.

I have bought the vbulletin integration with D7 fron Dolphinbugfixing and it is very good.
It is embedded nicely in D7 and i can yet not find any problems with the integration.

If you want to see the integration send me an email at stian@absnet.no and i will give you my site's adress.
My site is a adult content site just to notify you)

Vbulletin integration with D7 from Dolphinbugfixing is recomended.

Stian

Does the integration include a forum page in groups or the store?

Yeah right.  Let's see a demo of the vBulletin integration.  That's the one where you don't actually get the mod, you have to let persons unknown, have complete access to your server.

No thanks.

I'm kind of like an attorney on this one. I only ask the questions that I already know the answer to....