[Mediawiki-l] Forum software (e.g. phpBB or similar) integration to replace talk pages

Sat Jun 4 01:30:34 UTC 2005

For what it's worth, I see 2 problems attempting to be solved when one 
mentions MediaWiki "integration" with phpBB (or any other forum software):

1) Provide a common login and password for each use for each mechanism 
(wiki and forum).

2) Make talk pages automatically reference forum thread-topics.

Muzaffer, you do not appear to be addressing goal #2.  Are you attempting 
goald #1, or something else?  If #1, could you make MediaWiki and phpBB 
both be clients to an LDAP database?

If something else...can you explain further what purpose you attempt to 
solve and/or what you want the end result to be?  I'm unclear on this point.

-Matt

At 6/3/2005 08:17 PM, Muzaffer Ozakca wrote:
>I've been trying to integrate phpBB with mediawiki. But I'm not trying to 
>tie talk pages to forums.
>
>I made some progress... towards a mess. I looked at phpBB, smf, useBB, and 
>some others. The thing is their codes are very similar, they all keep a 
>sessions table to show who is logged in, etc. There are other simpler 
>ones, too. Compared to MW, they might be good cases for bad software 
>design and coding.
>
>Here's what I got.
>
>== When a user is created in MW, user tables of phpBB are updated. 
>Basically a user with the same user name is added to the phpbb user table.
>== phpBB checks mediawiki cookies and makes the user in the MW cookie log 
>in automatically by setting some internal structures. Of course, sessions 
>are not easily sharable so there are problems here. For example, if a 
>session expires for a user, cookies will still be there.
>
>There might be security issues, too. I'm not planning to integrate it 
>fully into MW code, I will put phpBB in a resizable frame on a wiki page. 
>Then make it look like monobook by playing with layout and css. I took a 
>similar approach -iframes- for an event calendar that works somewhat OK.
>
>As I said, my goal is not replacing talk pages but give my users a 
>separate forum.
>
>Julian Rendell wrote:
>>Hi there-
>>I've done some searching and seen some mock-ups, and a few hints that
>>people have succeeded, but does anyone have a concrete guide for how
>>to integrate some kind of forum software into mediawiki to replace the
>>talk pages?
>>Or I guess a second best would be the ability to easily (e.g. via
>>interwiki?) integrate a seperate forum site into mediawiki links, and
>>also an easy way to create wiki-like links in the forum posts that
>>link back to the wiki.
>>Any suggestions appreciated-
>>Regards
>>Julian
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