PHP Portals... will it....

[Shaun]

I just checked out these two systems and there's all kinds of mods for them.  I would like to change my site to one of these CMSs if you guys can integrate YaBB SE with them.  It would be kool to have the Users Online, Polls, News, Chat, using the same information.  I just learned about telnet, tar.gz tonight installing Post-Nuke with a Windows XP theme.  It looks really good, especially with the ability to update your site from any computer with internet access.

[ßlãçkÐëâth]

i heard postnuke uses alot of resources and where did you get the win XP theme give me your site link please

[welded]

http://www.nextcelica.net/html/

[Pebbels]

hello @welded
Here u can get the download-fix for ur Postnuke v 0.7.0.2 , to show all ur downloads.

Mfg Pebbels

[Razgo]

ok, I am waiting on a friend of mine in canada to confirm if we will take on a postnukeXyaBBSE intergration. as we may drop our current project in favour of this one.

although I am not in the coding department myself this person is more than capable of doing the job.

so I like to ask if anyone here has actually started a project at all?

I hope to post back here in a few hours if I hear from him to let you guys know.

aslo is there any special note of intention to be emailed to anyone in specific? as this would more than likley become a sourceforge project.

thanks...

[Shaun]

That would be awesome!!  Right now,  I'm using Postnuke and I love it!  Everyone is confused though about registering and logging in at two different places.

[Joseph Fung]

If you just keep one of the admins updated on what's going on, we'd really appreciate it - there were a few other people who mentioned wanting to work on something, but as far as I know, nothing has been started.

[Razgo]

ok thanks for that joseph, I haven't heard back from my friend yet being xmas and all. he's probably out having a good time!  

[John R]

After, many hours of comparing the SQL files of both PostNuke and YaBB SE, I can see 2 possible options that could be done to make total integration or partial integration possible.

1 - The fieldnames in YaBB SE could be changed to be compatable with PostNuke (or phpNuke for that matter)

2 - Some sort of translation routine could be applied to the neccessary fieldnames to allow partial integration

Choice #1 would allow total integration and allow you more ability to use data from both places in both places.

Choice #2 would allow partial integration but would still allow you to share some data.

YaBB SE uses the following fields in the Member Table – ID_MEMBER, memberName, realName, passwd, dateRegistered, personalText, memberGroup, gender, birthdate, websiteTitle, websiteURL, location, ICQ, AIM, YIM, hideEmail, timeFormat, signature, posts, timeOffset, avatar, im_ignore_list, im_email_notify, karmaGood, karmaBad & lastLogin


PostNuke uses the following fields in the Member Table – uid, name, uname, email, femail, url, user_avatar, user_regdate, user_icq, user_occ, user_from, user_interest, user_sig, user_viewemail, user_theme, user_aim, user_yim, user_msnm, pass, storynum, umode, uorder, thold, noscore, bio, ublockon, ublock, theme, commentmax, counter, timezone_offset, posts, attachsig, rank & level


Not being a programmer, I am unsure of the methods needed to implement choice #2 but would think that something like what follows would probably suffice:


$memberName = $uname - each required field could be set the same way.  This would prpbably have to be inserted into settings.php for it to be effective.  Once the YaBB SE cookie was set then it would be easier the next time around.

Just a few thoughts on the idea that might be read by more learned programmers than myself who just might want to take up the challenge.

cheers..........

[dgodfrey]

I still want a port for PHPWebsite!!

Derek

[The_Master]

hmm... you could transform yabb itself to a portal. Like http://www.phpportals.com/ has done with vbulletin.

[andrea]

hmm... you could transform yabb itself to a portal.

The same I'm thinking, too. By adding some more flexibility into the right places, one could add some portal like functionality into the YaBB SE.

[dgodfrey]

Would that be easy?  And is anyone willing to do it?  I have people signing up for the Yabb boards, but not the Content Management System (PHPWebsite).  So this might be useful?

Derek

[NewRaven]

Writing a Portal (CMS)-Script is never easy... "adding some more flexibility into the right places" is a good start, but a Portal is a little more than that. Good block- management, good newsboard... a good article-database... and much more... that will take a lot of time...

[Shoeb Omar]

stay on focuus: integrating yabb to postnuke