By IBUnique on

Hi everyone, first post here.

I help run three sites which use the Invision forum product. Will drupal incorporate with that ? Am happy to code in the security stuff etc myself, as l write php code for invision addons. In the next month we will be adding a vBulletin install so same question for that product.

Hope that makes sense ... need mucho more coffee this morning.

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Steven commented

The situation is very similar to trying to integrate phpBB. I suggest you read through this thread on phpBB integration.

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IBUnique commented

Not to be too pedantic about things, but phpBB is entirely different in setup and management to Invision Power Board. I am thinking the converge technology used in invision might be the plade to work on a common login etc. Clearly phpBB does not have converge, ergo exactly what would l gain by reading up on integration to an inheriantly different product ?

And yes l did a "search" for invision. Should l also have done searches on "ikonboard" "vbulletin" "wowBB" and the 101 other forum software products ?

Thanks for the link, but phpBB integration is not going to work for Invision.

Anyone care to answer who has or is using invision. If no existing merge code we'll write up a hack for it and make that available to anyone who wants it.

Another badly worded post byu IBU.

www.ibunique.com - skins, hacks, graphics (for invision only currently, soon adding vBulletin content).

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Steven commented

The reason I linked to that thread is because the arguments against integration are the same. Did you actually read it?

You would be duplicating functionality with the forum that already exists in Drupal as a set of modules (forum, privatemsg, subscription/notify, bbcode, smileys, etc) and would not be able to share features between the two.

The advantage of forum software like Invision is that it is a nice, integrated package. But as soon as you try and merge it with different software, that advantage is lost.

Furthermore, I'm pretty sure that the response that there is no interest in this with the Drupal developers still stands for Invision as well as phpBB.

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gordon commented

Technically this can be done, but I have not seen anyone do it.

there are 2 things that need to be done to get seemless intergration between drupal and another product like phpbb, invision or any other 3rd party product that is outside drupal.

  1. Single password, which can already be done with drupal using the remote authentication. It shouldn't take too much.
  2. the other which is usually the killer, You need to change/add to the session control of invision so that it will use drupals session handers or use the drupal session tables to see who the use is who has logged it, and make sure they have a valid session.

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