making a phpbb forum work into a modx template

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insert_nick Reply #1, 18 years, 6 months ago

I’ve completely rebuild a site using MODx. So now I have a nice template in the templates of MODx, and all the pages using that template.
But, the (phpbb) forum is still "skinned" like the old site, because at the moment I simply call a new window pointing to /forum, with all the gfx of the old site.

I need to let MODx display the forum using the template, so I’ve created a "forum" page using the template, and I think the content of this page should be something like:

[!execute_script?filepath=`forum/index.php`!]

where execute_script is a snippet like this:

<?php
if(!isset($filepath)) return;
if(!file_exists($filepath)){
return ("<strong>Error:</strong>script file ".$filepath." not found");
}
include($filepath);
?>

Of course, this is not the right solution, otherwise I won’t be here asking for help.
So, I’m hearing any solution you can provide to accomplish the task.
Thanks

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insert_nick Reply #2, 18 years, 6 months ago

No, it’s not the case: the behaviour following your suggestion is exactly the same I already obtained.
For completeness, maybe I should now describe exactly what I do obtain with my solution.
The forum is installed in root, into folder "forum". That is, I do have in root:

[assets]
[manager]
[forum]
index.php
index-ajax.php
.htaccess
(...etc.)

At first, calling localhost/forum.html (friendly urls are activated), I had this MODx error:

« MODx Parse Error »MODx encountered the following error while attempting to parse the requested resource:
« PHP Parse Error »
 
PHP error debug
  Error: 	include(./extension.inc) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory	 
  Error type/ Nr.: 	Warning - 2	 
  File: 	C:\path\to\project\root\forum\index.php	 
  Line: 	25	 
  Line 25 source: 	include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc'); 	 
 
Parser timing
  MySQL: 	0.0134 s	(9 Requests)
  PHP: 	0.1489 s	 
  Total: 	0.1623 s

"extension.inc" is a file located into the phpbb forum dir, at the same level of the forum index.php.
So I have changed the value of $phpbb_root_path in forum/index.php, from this one:

$phpbb_root_path = './';

...to this one:

$phpbb_root_path = 'forum/';

This way, the paths "work", but the result (calling localhost/forum.html) is a blank page; if I look the source code it’s nothing, empty, nothing at all.

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insert_nick Reply #3, 18 years, 6 months ago

Just a little update for clarity: I have changed the template used by phpbb to look more integrated with the gfx of the new site. But this is a temporary solution for me, as I’d like to use a template managed by MODx, i.e. with the chunks calls, and so on. In fact, there is a large amount of "dynamic" things I’ve created in the MODx template, that it would be a pain to re-code (and mantain) them in a separate implementation for phpbb, in order to have them working in the forum page.

I write this so no one will spend time replying that I can "skin" phpbb the way I want: I already know that, and I have already done so.