PHPBB3 Integration

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Lethal`

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I have a site template designed with a menu down the right hand side content on the left and header up the top. I also have a forum in the /forums directory. The forums are currently separated from the main design and do not include all the menu items etc.

I need to find some way I can integrate the forums into the content area on the main design, this would involve changing the width of the forums to some degree. I could do a php include but then I would not have url's for the forums in the browser window.

Does anyone know how to do this for PHPBB3?
 
from my recollection of the brief play that i had with phpbb3, the templating is not hugely differnet from phpbb2, but with more css and less nested tables. You should be able to mod the style sheets and the overall_header file in the relevant theme folder to implement the css changes, effectively molding the phpbb3 theme to match what you have.
 
No end users like forums which are forcibly 'shoehorned' into sites. Your best bet is to have it totally separate, but design a theme for it which matches the rest of the site (and make sure any necessary navigation links are added).

Also, as malfunkshun says, avoid phpBB. If you need to use free forum software then go for SMF. It's better in practically every department.


/unhelpful. :p
 
Generally with phpBB you can integrate the theme by putting your header an footer HTML in overall_header.tpl and overall_footer.tpl. Some further CSS changes would be required, but it should work.
 
malfunkshun said:
lol@march, I only really looked at the 27th bit and assumed today :|
phpbb is a bot magnet, dont do it.
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How do you mean it's a bot magnet? Do you mean the search engine spiders or something else?

I've just done exactly as the original poster was thinking of doing and integrated phpBB into a website, and I've definitely seen the user accounts for Yahoo and Google bots are logged in almost hourly. It's a little disconcerting to think how regularly they try and trawl our conversations. Is there anything that can be done about it?
 
seek said:
phpBB3 has bot control options in the admin CP (under permissions).


But it still sucks donkey balls.
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I'm interested to know why you have that opinion. Is it based on anything in particular, or is it FUD or fanboyism of another forum software? I'm genuinely interested because my site currently integrates with phpBB2 and I'm going to migrate to another (free) forum software that's a bit more suited to my needs (e.g. doing categories and nested forums out-of-the-box). I was going to go for phpBB3, but if it's particularly deficient then I'll look at alternatives.
 
xyphic said:
I'm interested to know why you have that opinion. Is it based on anything in particular, or is it FUD or fanboyism of another forum software? I'm genuinely interested because my site currently integrates with phpBB2 and I'm going to migrate to another (free) forum software that's a bit more suited to my needs (e.g. doing categories and nested forums out-of-the-box). I was going to go for phpBB3, but if it's particularly deficient then I'll look at alternatives.
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I've used both, and out of the two SMF has a much nicer admin CP and package manager. It's also widely considered to be more secure and it has many more features than phpBB3. Furthermore, SMF 2.0 will be released soon, putting it even further ahead of phpBB3.

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=228921.msg1470670#msg1470670
 
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