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
>
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> From: Tim Verhoeven <dj-wMWpa6OpOI6ZIoH1IeqzKA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> 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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