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Hi there!

Just promoting the Joomla and phpBB integration in the phpBB forum. 

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=637645

Very happy to try this in near future!

There is a nice Gold Release of phpBB that you can run on! 

Hello, I'm Mateusz Jadczak and I'm Polish, although i live in Ireland, so my English is very good.
I will  be happy to help with the Polish translation of JFusion, in fact, I'm already started it! I am also a bit good at PHP, so I might try to write a cookie generator for phpbb3. For contact please wither PM, email: mcmillan0520[at]gmail[dot]com , skype: radius_mediasoft (chat only plz)

Hi Mateusz.

Thank for your offer! I will gladly take you up on your offer to help out with JFusion. We need more people to come on board and to help develop JFusion.

Thanks, Marius

Sorry, I must be retarded.

I mean that the old SMF bridge didn't change the files but wasn't GPL. On the other hand the Joomlahacks bridge DID change the files. Sooo...

Does this mean that a GPL bridge can be used for SMF? Where's the limit? 

Non-GPL components/plugins are not compatible with the Joomla GPL, as these plugins would in essense create a different version of Joomla with added capabilities. Combining GPL and non-GPL products is not possible, therefore non-GPL bridges are not 'legal'.


When changing core files of both product and calling libraries from one software in the other software, you are creating a single new product. This is the script-glue-script model that was proposed to the FSF in the SMF-Joomla bridge, in which the FSF suggested that this is not possible.


The discussions between the FSF and SMF where very abstract, the word brigde was never mentioned 

The FSF said that non-GPL and GPL can share SQL tables, as long as the plugins are not derivatives of each other, or of MySQL. As long as the two softwares remain stand-alone you should be right.

Cheers, Marius

how do i install this plugin? sorry im new to joomla and i tried read the readme and installed it.. it return me this error


Installation file not found:
C:\xampp\htdocs\administrator\components\com_installer\component\jfusion\
[ Continue ... ]

thanks 

Sometimes I have problems installing components. So I use plan B: unzip and copy the files, then try "Install from directory".

Can we use/code a new discussbot?

I do not care so much about sharing users but to have the "old" look and features. The look can be solved with a custom template (like forum.joomla.org) but the discussbot is another thing because the code calls com_smf.

In the meantime I've changed to a comment component but the readers are now complaining.

Sure, come on board. Nigel created the Jfusion framework but has been unable to create new code for the last weeks due to other commitment. I have got an other few things on my plate such as user sync and other forum support. We desperately need other people to come on board and kick start some of these features.

Thanks, Marius

how about IPB/IP.Converge?

If you need spanish translation count me in

BTW, does this thingie wrap SMF into Joomla? [URL substitution and/or Joomla template inclusion]. I'm not very experienced but I don't have trouble programming, so if you need coding help, count me in too. I am very, really, absolutely interested in having a good J!-SMF solution.

PM me.

@ PornSharK,

We might share an interest in IPB; what's your expertise/experience on IPB and/or Joomla/PHP development ?
Are you considering joining the JFusion team in any role ??

Srry, N00b here...

so, using Jfusion I can use my login from my phpBB3 to login to my Joomla?
or how does this work? in lamens terms...

SMF 1.1.4
Joomla 1.5 RC4
MySQL 5.0.45
PHP 5.2.4

Installed all the components, mods, etc, but when I go to either Configuration or the Config Wizard, I get this error at the top of the page:

"* Could not find custom user field used when SMF is controlling Joomla! permissions. You have set it to field99. Please check this is correct
* 
* Summary
* jfusion has1 errors. Some are critical which means you should check the configuration carefully as it is not correct."

It told me I needed to download some SMF package called "customprofile 3-17" which I did. I installed that, but I am still getting the above error.

Good news.



Sounds great.
If it is accomplished, JFusion will be the first *WORKING* J! - vB - cB product ever !

Nothing changes when people log into phpBB3 (they only login to phpBB3), as JFusion only changes the login behaviour of Joomla. When people login to Joomla (with their phpBB3 username/password), they do not get logged into phpBB3. However this is possible and is already working for jfusion->vbulletin (need more people on the developers team to get these functions up and running).


People seem to have problems with the instructions for SMF custom profile fields and applying the SMF package. The next version won't  use custom profile field, so hopefully things will be easier for everyone.

Our own JFusion website is also coming soon with support forums, but since I am on a holiday away with my wife watches my time behind a computer like a hawke  ............

Cheers, Marius

Great..... i love it 

I have installed this together with latest version of PHPBB3 and Joomla.

The login and authentification works perfectly on the site (and the Forum integration) with the username/pass from PHPBB however i can no longer login to the administration panel (Only solution is to enable the Jooma Login instead and disable the Jfusion components)

Any ideas on this ?

Thanks!

Mine too. 

how about the MYBB forums?

I too have this problem... now I can't login into the admin area of Joomla...

Question to zepsweden, how did you enable joomla login and disable Jfusion if you can't reach admin panel?

I made two post to myBB forum if anybody wishes to join this effort. On 18 January it will be one month from my last posts there. Still no reactions.
If there is nobody I will do it myself. Although I know nothing about myBB cookies and ACL. But there is a quite good wiki on their pages and I hope I will make it.
On the other hand I do not hurry absolutely. I want my forum to start in December 2008...

This is getting exciting to see this component grow!

Question, will this work with Joomla 1.0.12 or 1.0.13? Since 1.5 is not release for production sites yet, we're not using it.

I'm hoping to use it with SMF.

I also have coppermine bridged with SMF. So this will end up being a coppermine -> SMF -> joomla situation when complete (I hope).

I have been anxiously waiting for something to join up two of my favorite scripts, Joomla and SMF, and JFusion lifted a boulder of my chest after hearing the official bridge could no longer be developed. So, I jumped to the chance and did a fresh installation of Joomla 1.5 and SMF 1.1.4 to see if I could merge them. The answer would be no.

Let me tell you what happened. Everything went okay until it was time to create the custom user profile field in SMF. I first tried the wizard of course, and get this error message



I then tried to make the field manually, but I got different options for the custom profile fields, than in the instructions, which I find odd as the version should be the same and I downloaded the SMF package from the location given in the JFusion setup that announced I needed it to continue.

Of the available field types I selected "Selection box" instead of "Single-Selection Menu" that I didn't have as an option, and followed the instructions the best I could. JFusion now found the available field, but not the "Super Administrator" option in it even though I copy pasted it in and checked that it was there.

So this is where I got stuck.

Here is the system info which might help you in looking for possible issues:

PHP Built on:  Linux gator65.hostgator.com 2.6.22_hg_grsec_pax #45 SMP Thu Dec 6 03:29:19 CST 2007 i686
Database Version: 4.1.22-standard
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
PHP Version: 4.4.7
Web Server: Apache/1.3.39 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.30 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b
Web Server to PHP interface: cgi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.0 Production/Stable [ Karibu ] 19-December-2007 19:00 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

Could the utf-8 be the cause of the/a problem? I have an impression that was an issue with the earlier Joomla versions. (I didn't even think of it until just as I saw it in the info...)

Anyway, I hope this gives you more information about your project which I truly hope will sail quickly and smoothly ahead. :p

BTW, if you notice reading reviews on Joomla.org that this sounds familiar, it's me. I posted a review there earlier today, but of course that has to be reviewed... 

People seem to have problems with the instructions for SMF custom profile fields and applying the SMF package. The next version won't  use custom profile field, so hopefully things will be easier for everyone.

Our own JFusion website is also coming soon with support forums, but since I am on a holiday away with my wife watches my time behind a computer like a hawke  ............

Cheers, Marius

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Well if you attend all the instructions carefully, it works... a little complicated but great for an alpha release. Congrats marius & team, you've done it, I can rely on Joomla & SMF together again =), damn, even my SMF user works @ Joomla's backend, the official bridge didn't allow that.

I turned off jfusion - Auth & Jfusion - user form mysql tables, the jos_plugin table, mantain the name of the plugins, and if they are disabled or not, so unpublish jfusion plugins and publish the joomla's two.
It worked for me, but in this way, obviously the bridge doesn't work.
I wait to know how to mantain the access to admin panel when this component is enabled.
Bye

The instructions are complex for setting up the "custom profile field", but if you understand these JFusion does work very well, as people have said in these threads. The next version will not have the custom profile requirement and might be better for you. JFusion is an alpha product and is released for testing only.

Thanks to all people who have provided feedback on JFusion. You have greatly helped on deciding what features to develop next.

Marius

Why don't you use SMF's SSI for synchronized login & logout?, they even support url redirection for both actions.