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p8pBB bridge light

p8pBB bridge light
Compatibility:

5.x maintained

4.x maintained

3.x not maintained

Type:
Commercial
License:
GNU GPL
JED:
Extension JED Page
See also:
p8pBB bridge
p8pBB comments
Price:
$49.00

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Extremely lightweight and none-invasive careful integration of phpBB3 and Joomla!

Fast and elegant, no additional database queries are executed and no additional files are included except account-related actions.

  • No hacks to Joomla! or phpBB3 is required. Only four Joomla library 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.
  • Synchronization of Joomla usergroups and phpBB groups changes.
  • Synchronization of Joomla custom user fields and phpBB custom profile fields changes.
  • 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.
  • Highly-configurable 'Latest Activity' module to display recent forums topics/posts.
  • Free installation on request.

We also offer a paid service of Kunena-to-phpBB3 conversion which carefully converts all Kunena data including smilies, ranks, attachments, users, moderators and avatars from either Community Builder, JomSocial, EasySocial or Kunena. Converter can be used for converting large Kunena forums (tested on forum with 5000+ members and 25000+ replies). Kunena 3.2.1+ is required.

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  • Joomla 4.4 or higher installed and working correctly.
  • phpBB 3.3.5+ installed and working correctly.
  • PHP 8.1 as min, with mb_string.
  • MySQL >= 5.7 with different database users for Joomla! and phpBB.
  • "mysqli" database drivers for both Joomla! and phpBB.
  • Joomla! and phpBB should be installed on the same domain. Joomla! should be installed in the root domain folder (i.e. https://site.com), phpBB should be installed and loaded in the first-level domain folder (i.e. https://site.com/phpBB3). Joomla! and phpBB should be resolved from the same domain (note that site.com and www.site.com are different domains).
  • Or: Joomla should be loaded from the root domain like https://site.com (not from a subfolder like https://site.com/joomla), phpBB can be loaded from the subdomain like https://forum.site.com and should be actually installed in the 1st-level subfolder like https://site.com/forum.
  • 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.