Go for it!

Worker Joined: Dec 21, 2004 Posts: 116

PHPBB3?

Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6433

I've heard great things about phpBB 3, but I'm more interested in other enhancements for 2.20, especially given the major surgery I expect to be required to replace phpBB 2.x...

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:09 am

No one is tackling phpBB3 yet that I know of. I'm really just waiting for a final release, as there may be significant changes until then.

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:35 am

One of my hosting clients is running 3 and I have to say it is real slick and very very fast. If anyone would like to see it in action drop me a PM and I will point the way.

Dawg

New Member Joined: Dec 22, 2005 Posts: 13

phpBB3 would be a great selling point for any future RN releases if we can band together to get it integrated well Smile

Tek

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:56 pm

If it's going to be "integrated" then I hope that a lot of thought and planning goes into it. I might be wrong but I think something that's much more "loosely coupled" than the current PHPBB integration might be in order. The native PHPBB table structure ought to be left intact and just have some kind of feed from the Nuke user table over to it (sort of like Gallery does now). Use native PHPBB templates (what Nuke calls themes) and get rid of the whole duplicative infrastructure of having PHPBB replicas of Nuke themes.

Yes, the interface might be a little less visually appealing that way and it might appear less fully integrated but the process of upgrading would be vastly simplified. There will be future RN's and other Nukes too I hope and there will be a future PHPBB 3.xx and even PHPBB4 and if we reduced the amount of code behind the integration we'd really make these upgrades a lot easier.

I wasn't here at the "creation" but I suspect that a lot of the rationale for the current animosity that PHPBB folks have for Nuke folks is because their code was badly bastardized to make it appear part of Nuke.

Regular Joined: Mar 14, 2005 Posts: 91

I agree with you fkelly, a different direction is needed.
I think phpbb should be more like a part of the core which would allow us to get rid of having 2 different session tables. Put the forums in a sub-folder and do a major re-write of mainfile.php. As for the user table, all we would really need to do is change the user table to match phpbb3's fields and adjust the constants.php to use *_users. I've been playing around with the phpbb3 RC lately, integrating it into a custom app and it is definitely possible. If any one is interested in seeing some code proof-of-concept code I'd be happy to post it.

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:25 am

I saw that in home there's a survey asking for PHPBB3 ( Should PHPBB3 be incorporated in RavenNuke(tm) in the future? ), so my crazy idea is taken in high esteem Smile

PS: I suggest to vote like me: "Yes as soon as possible" Very Happy

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:24 pm

hhhhmmmm... I kind of like the current stability, but, that is just me... Wink

Client Joined: Dec 24, 2004 Posts: 194 Location: Michigan

i would rather wait for a final release as mentioned of phpbb3 however i have a topic in the forums about this very topic...and high hopes that it will be eventually part of the raven nuke project........

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 9:53 pm

Well it is in a final version now. I'm still tackling some issues with the port.... Wink

Worker Joined: Oct 18, 2005 Posts: 127 Location: NYC

evaders99 wrote:

Well it is in a final version now. I'm still tackling some issues with the port.... Wink

Hey Evaders99

Are you still working on this?

I have installed phpbb3 as a standalone, it's great. Would love to have it in RN, even if it were a separate install.

Thanks

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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:20 pm

I am, yes. It will be out when it is done, no earlier.

However I do accept donations... to stave off those late night hungers Smile

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:38 pm

evaders99 wrote:

I am, yes. It will be out when it is done, no earlier.

hmmmm..... who would want it if it wasn't done

evaders99 wrote:

However I do accept donations... to stave off those late night hungers Smile

I have donated several times to this site, don't they throw you a bone? Laughing

.... I have also donated several times in the past to your site as well. I will donate again to your site when you have finished with the phpbb3 port and I use it. Wink

Thank you!!

Worker Joined: Jan 18, 2008 Posts: 143

shmk wrote:

I saw that in home there's a survey asking for PHPBB3 ( Should PHPBB3 be incorporated in RavenNuke(tm) in the future? ), so my crazy idea is taken in high esteem Smile

PS: I suggest to vote like me: "Yes as soon as possible" Very Happy

I remember when I was over there asking about how to do a few things. They gagged on me big time for mentioning the word "nuke". Im glad that they had a change of heart.

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:25 am

They (the PHPBB folks) didn't have a change of heart. They never will. The port is being done completely independent of the PHPBB developers and they will never support it.