integrate forums?

Ok folks, I really want to learn how to integrate a forum in to my website.

I have tried the smf module but it’s not doing what i want.... it does export/import users fine but when you visit the forum it doesn’t say who is on the site... it shows up as welcome guest i think even though it says you’re signed in. I decided to go for a seperate forum that looks similar to my modx site. What I would like is being able to sign in to the forum but on the home page or other pages still showing that you are logged in under your username. Say in the bottom of the header it says, "welcome Ross" Or what ever.


So what do I need? I would like to know if it’s possible to fully integrate a forum in to your website, it doesn’t have to be managed via modx but at least looks like it’s one package.

I don’t mind if the forum is SMF or PhpBB3 and I don’t mind which shopping cart as along as it’s looking like it’s part of the who site.

Can this be done and if so how? I’m willing to reward anyone who can help and get me to where i want to with this.

Thanks!

Unfortunately, this completely depends on the forum package and how it is implemented. It can be done, but there is no easy answer or solution to just make it so. My experience in PHP has been that there is very little if any attempt by PHP application developers to design user authentication and authorization data in reusable/extensible ways, making the efforts typically involve some sort of "customization" of the application source code.

So basically a forum really needs to be kept seperate from modx and have users signup to the forum rather than the site?

I’ve read and read things for the last 2 months since I first started using modx and just can’t find anything that is remotely like nuke for example... CMS with an interated forum.

I have used nuke for a couple years but I got tired of using tables and really wanted to start learning web dev properly.

As i stated, I’m open to use any of the forum packages out there as long as I can get the integration i’m looking for.

For those who have a forum would you only use the forum registration or would you get modx to handle it? I personally would use the forum because of all the fields etc that are there.

If anyone else knows how to integrated or at least get there forum in to modx properly, Please let us know!

I’ve looked at iframes etc but just don’t seem to get what I want to do. Thanks to all.

Quote from: ganeshXL at Dec 10, 2007, 12:27 PM

btw, just stumpled upon this: http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=102589#p102589
Looks like some other modx-user already integrated punbb with modx; that template syntax looks familar

From the last comment, it looks like it didn’t work too well.

That’s what I thought! Not in very good english but it didn’t look to good!

I guess there’s not really a way to integrate a forum then......... or is someone being selfish and not sharing it.