By lotussteve@cargal.org on

Hello

I have two questions:

I constantly run in the problem that new users, who have signed up in my drupal or in my phpBB2 try to use username and passwortd in the other appilcation, fail and are puzzled. Before i go and solve this with LDAP i want to ask if there are plans to integrate phpBB2 into drupal like in the *nuke-programs (i only use drupal, no experience with those)?

I used the search function and only found something about the non-integration of gallery.sourceforge.net , another program i use. Have the plans changed here? My Users seem to want a single-sign-on solution here also.

Thanks for answers,

Ciao,

Steve

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killes@www.drop.org’s picture

killes@www.drop.org commented

Integration of non-Drupal php-Solutions has never been tried. I am not saying that it is difficult but just that nobody tried it in earnest.
Why don't you use Drupal's forum and image.module?

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lotussteve@cargal.org commented

Hello

The problem is that i used the forum since October 2001 (and Gallery since February 2002) and discovered Drupal in August 2002....so there are many postings already here which i would lose.... And as kika stated there seem to be no migrationtools available?

Thanks for answers,

Ciao,

Steve
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Switch now. Never look back. Only local images are allowed.

Even when all 3 applications share the same user accounts, is not going to it integrate well. It is not straightforward but it isn't rocketscience either. The time you'd spend making the 3 applications integrate visually or hacking the user management code, is better spent making a nodifier script converting your content to Drupal nodes.

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fuzzygroup commented

Here's an uglier but workable approach.

a) Disable the posting facilities in phpBB and Gallery just by eliminating the buttons to post.

b) Keep that content available but online.

c) Use Drupal for new postings

d) Use a 3rd party search engine to index both so at least the search interface is seamless

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Boris Mann _Old Blogger.com Account_ commented

I've used Gallery for quite some time. IMHO, it is the best PHP-based image gallery out there -- by far.

Drupal doesn't need to take the attitude of "embrace and conquer" -- something could be added that is a "wrapper" module, that lets content from other systems be inserted into the "middle" of a Drupal layout.

Of course, still need to figure out how to integrate authentication, plus a few other minor details Only local images are allowed.

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artsee commented

I'd be interested to see a site which uses Drupal and Gallery in tandem.

I am currently building a vortal, bit by bit (as I am NOT a programmer) and would like to integrate an image gallery.

I have managed to wrap a Calendaring function into my site and think that perhaps Gallery may also be approached this way.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

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shane commented

I have drupal 4.2.0 with the gallery.module installed. Note that the Gallery module only truly works with 4.1.0 code - so there are some significant issues with the implementation on my site. Primarily creation and population of new gallery and sub-gallery sections don't work properly. However, with a pure 4.1.0 install - it worked beautifully.

It's a shame I don't have the Drupal knowledge and the Drupal Documentation isn't sufficient for me to update the Gallery module. The Gallery setup is vastly better than the native images.module in Drupal. Only (major) advantage to the images.module is the integration with Taxonomy terms. Other than that, the usability of the images.module is ...lacking...

If you are *serious* about checking out the working example I have, feel free to contact me directly, and I'll let you know where the site is at. Contact me via email at drupal AT tuna DOT org

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cornernote commented

You could edit the ADD USER and UPDATE USER funcions in both scripts so that if the user registers or changes any details it will be changed in both the drupal and phpbb2 user tables.

Then you dont have to mess around changing the AUTH over which would be a lot of work.

I have not done it yet but if I had to then thats what I would do.

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seannyob commented

gallery integrates beautifully with geeklog. phpBB should too but i didn't try that so i can't speak to it.

that said, i just switched to drupal for my personal and business sites. i like the taxonomy, and i'm looking forward to playing around with templates.

not arguing for one or the other, just sharing my experience. i sure do wish there were migration techniques in hand for gallery-->drupal. perhaps there's a project...

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killes@www.drop.org commented

However, I think that it would be possible to convert the database scheme from what other applications use to drupal. After all, they all store the same type of information.

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MicheleF commented

Hallo folks
I have a similar problem, and I'm actually tryng to migrate a phpbb2-based forum to a drupal-based.
I am realizing a sql script that does the work and the main (little) problem I found is to skip from the "post sequence" of phpbb to a "node plus comments" sequence.
Apart from this the process is quite linear, but due to lack of esperience in drupal the problem will be to preserve a lot of nice phpbb2 features such as user list, avatar in posts, etc.

Wander if somebody allready have a similar experience.

Anyway I'll share my migration script when it will be ready: at the moment I realised migration of users, forum, topic and post. To do: private messages, cleaning bbcode and other details :P

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oadaeh commented

I'm looking at doing the same thing. I'd be interested in saving some time and work if you've got something going, and helping finalize it if it's not yet complete.

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kika commented

- Is it possible to write a DA module module what authenticates Drupal users remotely using phpBB?

- Yes, we prefer "native" Drupal modules over integrated modules, because they take advantage Drupal genereric content repository (nodes), user system, taxonomy etc.
On other hand we do not do much to encourage people to migrate their existing data (phpBB forums / gallery images) to Drupal and migration scripts are sorely missing Only local images are allowed.

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cornernote commented

Hello,

Correct me if I am wrong but designing a DA module for phpBB2 would result in the following:

1. Users who register on your forums can log into your site. Great!

2. Users who register on your site cannot log into the forums. Not so great.

You would need some kind of auth on the phpbb2 site for it to look at your drupal users. Or you could make drupal register a new phpbb2 user when a user first registers.

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cornernote commented

Just found this:
http://php.weblogs.com/universal

The rationale for Universal is web applications such as Phorum, phpBB, WebCalendar, PostNuke, Xaraya, Drupal are unable cooperate because there is no data sharing. Universal is an attempt at bridging these islands of data by providing means for PHP applications written by different people to work better together. As a PHP developer, you can help make PHP web applications interoperate by implementing a shared sign-on mechanism based on the specs described here.

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moshe weitzman commented

you should shut off local registration in this scenario. force users to register using phpBB

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ax commented

seems that some of you aren't aware that there is a working solution to integrate gallery and drupal. see this post for details (note that the "demo site" isn't working at the moment and that you have to look for it in the 4.1 cvs contributions branch / download page section). try this plugin and then discuss the advantages and disadvantages of integrating external software into drupal again ;)

also feel free to update that package to drupal 4.2 ;)