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Hi all,

This is my first post and hope you can help.

Where is the help topic in relation to inserting the phpBB forum? In the Admin panel when it says ‘Insert Data’ this does mean that I can attach a fully functioning forum or what ever application that’s offered? Also is it possible to have the one password for both the forum and serendipity?

Thanks for reading my post

Take care
Widow.ie
http://www.widow.ie

Hi!

I'm not sure what you mean with "Insert data"? Do you mean the configuration of the plugin?

The forum plugin of s9y can offer you two things: Either you use the internal offered forum (throuigh http://yourblog/index.php?serendipity[subpage]=forum) OR you use a phpbb integration. In that case, you would need to enter the database access credentials into the configuration of the plugin. This will then put comments inside the phpbb installation and link to it, instead of using the internal s9y storage solution only.

However, phpbb will still be a standalone application, it will NOT be embedded inside serendipity. It will rather only be used as a data storage container for comments which are read and inserted from/to phpb b.

Regards,
Garvin

Inserting the phpbb forum into Serendipity worked perfectly. However there seems to be little help for us novice users who are trying to get "Enable phpBB mirroring" to work. The small information provided indicates that each post would create a link, and a newly created forum. Also each comment would also be placed into the newly created forum. However this hasn't worked so far and no hints, or sledge hammers to the head have provided me any insight.

We have the no (obvious) the 2.x and 3.x however each one seems to do nothing of the sort. Infact the corresponding post link saying check out the topic in the forum leads no where but the same darn page. Is there something a little more helpful in allowing us to get this to work. The plug-in page's link to the author is a dead link so I appear to be slightly SOL. Any help would be worshiped. The more the merrier.

Hi!

Yeah, the phpbb mirroring is a bit hidden and hackish. It was developed for a specific installation in mind.

The most usual problem with the code is that either the database connection to the phpBB board fails, or in the setup of the plugin you didn't enter the right board+forum IDs.

Note that the plugin only created new threads; the forums must exist already.

Also I believe the plugin only works properly when the serendipity_event_entryproperties plugin is installed.

Tell me if anything helps.

Regards,
Garvin

Just to be clear, the forum must be created. Is that forum supposed to be the same as the blog entry itself, do we need to create one solely for each blog category?

In this attempt I was trying to do a book club blog where the comments could be shuffled to the forum for debate after the book club's initial review of the book.

Hi!

tizroc wrote:Just to be clear, the forum must be created. Is that forum supposed to be the same as the blog entry itself, do we need to create one solely for each blog category?

It's like in this board: A forum like "General discussions" must be created and existing, and you must enter the ID of that forum in the configuration of the plugin. Then your blog entries will be posted just like you created the thread "Inserting a phpBB Forum into Serendipity". And a comment to that blog entry would look like the posting I did right now here.

Regards,
Garvin