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• No hacks to Joomla! or phpBB3 is required. Only four Joomla 3.6 files are auto-updated but the changes are safe and does not affect normal Joomla behavior.
• Synchronization of login/logout in phpBB to Joomla and vice verse.
• Synchronization of registration in phpBB to Joomla and vice verse.
• Synchronization of user delete in phpBB to Joomla and vice verse.
• Synchronization of user delete/activate/deactivate in phpBB ACP to Joomla.
• Synchronization of changing profile data (email and password) in phpBB to Joomla including language setting.
• Silent account transfer from phpBB to Joomla after logging in phpBB (Joomla! user logs in phpBB and new phpBB account is created from Joomla user account) and vice-verse.
• Auto-creation of new user in phpBB if new/existing Joomla user is saved.
• Restore phpBB password from Joomla on successful Joomla login and vice-verse.
• Ability to reload parent window once user logs in or out, this helps with refreshing of Joomla page if phpBB is loaded inside iframe wrapper.
• JComments avatars plugin.
• English installation instructions.
• Free installation on request.

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• Joomla! 2.5.28 or 3.7.x or 3.8.x installed and working correctly.
• phpBB 3.0.12+ or phpBB 3.1.2+ or 3.2.0+ installed and working correctly.
• PHP 5.3+ with setting "register_globals" Off.
• MySQL 5 with different database users for Joomla! and phpBB.
• "mysql" database drivers for both Joomla! and phpBB.
• Joomla! and phpBB should be installed in the same domain.
• Joomla! should be installed in the root domain folder (i.e. http://site.com), phpBB should be installed and loaded in the first-level domain folder (i.e. http://site.com/phpBB3).
• Joomla! and phpBB should be resolved from the same domain (note that site.com and www.site.com are different domains).
• The price includes 1 year none-recurrent subscription. Downloads of product add-ons and new versions will be available within this subscription period.
• We can't 100% guarantee that this product will work with any 3rd party Joomla! or phpBB add-ons and modifications and won't modify this extension or 3rd party Joomla! or phpBB add-ons for working together.

Current version:

• Feature: JComments avatars plugin.
• Fix: issue with Joomla>phpBB login on disabled forum.

15 January 2017 - ver. 1.3.5:

• Feature: phpBB 3.2 and Joomla 3.8 support
• Note: this is the last version with Joomla 2.5 and phpBB 3.0 support.

26 October 2016 - ver. 1.3.4:

• Fix: Joomla 3.6.4 compatibility.

26 August 2016 - ver. 1.3.3:

• Fix: Joomla 3.6.2 compatibility.

25 July 2016 - ver. 1.3.2:

• Feature: new phpBB user is auto-created once existing Joomla user profile is saved.
• Fix: Joomla 3.6 compatibility.

10 June 2015 - ver. 1.3.1

• Fix: some issues with PHP 5.3

02 February 2015:

• Fix: no login to phpBB from Joomla if maximum login attempts is reached.
• Fix: K2 compatibility.
• Feature: auto-create new user in phpBB if existing Joomla user is saved.
• Feature: restore phpBB password from Joomla on successful Joomla login.
• Feature: phpBB 3.1 compatibility.

08 May 2014 - ver. 1.2.5

• Fix: restoring password from phpBB for Joomla 3.3.

28 May 2013 - ver. 1.2.4

• Improved login with SEO MOD installed

24 Apr 2013 - ver. 1.2.3

• Added ability to reload parent frame once user logs in or our.

03 Feb 2013 - ver. 1.2.2

• Fixed possible issue with ACP login error
• Added synchronization of user activation/deactivation in phpBB ACP Inactive Users list to Joomla

10 Feb 2013 - ver. 1.2.1

• added phpBB->Joomla user delete synchronization

16 Dec 2012 - ver. 1.2.0 for Joomla! 3