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I had posted this on mamboserver.com but with joomla now being the direction i thought i should probably post it here also.  This is the guide with all stable versions.  I always ran into problems using the beta versions.

Program Installs - All to the same database

1. Install Joomla(this was orginally written with mambo so their might be some changes i didnt come accross)

2. Install SMF from Simple Machines

3. Install Coppermine 1.3.4 from Coppermine

4. Make sure all programs succesfully run as standalones.

SMF Integration


1. Download and unzip MOS_SMF_BRIDGEv3.19a_stable.zip  from mamboforge.

2. Install the file smf_mambo3.1.tar.gz with your SMF package manager.

Make sure, that when you see the screen that lists "Success" next to the filenames,
that you click "Proceed".  The mod will not install until you click "Proceed".

3.  Install com_smf.zip as a Mambo component, and change the values in the configuration
via the Mambo backend.

Please use the absolute path.  There is a lot of confusion surrounding relative paths. 
You are best to use the absolute path.

You can choose to use bridge registration or smf registration, if you use bridge it will use the mambo reg. form and if you use smf it will use the smf reg. form.  Dont matter either way, its personal preference.

4.  Install com_smf_registration.zip as a Mambo component this is if you want to share your user information in both SMF and Mambo.

This is the common registration component for Mambo and SMF.

This uses the registration options in your Mambo admin> Global Configuration,
just like the Mambo default registration.

5. a) Install mod_smf_login.php as a module.

b) Go to your Mambo template (root/templates/current_template/index.php), and add the following code, right before
the tag:



c) also add the following code just above the tag:



d) Publish the smf login module, and unpublish the default Mambo login module.

Coppermine Integration
1. Go to the bridge directory and open smf.inc.php with an editor.

2. Edit Line 50 to point to your smf installation directory.

3. Save smf.inc.php.

4. Edit the file include/init.inc.php. At the beginning of the file you will find the following lines :



Replace



with



5. Save init.inc.php

6. Upload both files.

7. Synchronsising the bbs groups with Coppermine's groups

Login using the admin account of your board. Go to the gallery, enter admin mode and click on the "Groups" button. This will synchronize Coppermine groups with those of your board. The permission you will see for each group will be completely messy, so take some time to set them properly.

Each time you add or delete a group in your board you will need to do the operation above in order to keep the synchronisation of the groups.

When you will try to login / logout or manage users from Coppermine, you will be redirected to the corresponding page of your bulletin board. Once the login or logout is performed you won't be redirected automatically to the gallery because your board does not have any function for that. It's up to you to add a link on your board to get you back to the gallery.

Getting coppermine to display within mambo wrapper.

1. Upload attached com_wrapper component files this will assure proper fitment.

2. Create a menu link using the wrapper to the coppermine directory. Example: /gallery

set the height

Scroll Bars: No
Width:  100%
Height: 100%
Auto Height: Yes
Auto Add: NO

For and added touch to the SMF board follow the instructions here.  This will link to each persons gallery on their posts.

http://www.simplemachines.org/community ... opic=28318.

in the member gallery link make sure to change the component id to the correct id for your gallery.

Thats should be it, you will have to make your component link to the forum too but all of the integration should be working.

Edit:Sept 19th, i forgot to attach the com wrapper files.

thanks for that the procedure sounds pretty much what I have been practicing because I have a number of sites that want/need a Joomla+SMK+Coppermine base.

One thing I've yet to do though is get my head around the CSS requirements for all 3 so that they can all use the one template - is that possible ?  Is it easy ?

I have now FINISHED my Coppermine Visual Integration Component (Its for CPG 1.4.x).

You can view an example and download it at my site: www.joomBla.com  (mambo + smf + CPG 1.4) All VISUALLY integrated.

Its much easier to use and requires no file editing

Todd
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www.joombla.com

Thank you so much for this guide. Will help this newbie tremendously.

I've just tried setting up the bridge with SMF and Coppermine with Joomla integration - had a slight issue with the coppermine integration.

I've editted the relevant php files and FTP'd them - but now each time I go to log into Coppermine - can't login

It takes me to the login screen of SMF - which is fine - but when I browse to the url of coppermine still doesn't say I'm logged in?

Anyone got any ideas??  Using SMF v.1.0.5 and Coppermine 1.3.4.

Thanks in advance.

Ah, yes, that's because of the method used to display Coppermine inside the Mambo page.  It doesn't pass any information to Mambo/Joomla to read cookies or sessions. It besically does a CURL to display the info on the page, which the site then sees as a guest, not as a logged in user.

That said, you are logged in, despite what the form on the Coppermine page says. 

Make sure to do this and run coppermine in the wrapper, this will pass the session id. http://www.simplemachines.org/community ... opic=28318.

I forgot to attach the wrapper files, they are in the first post now.

I'm unable to login to the Gallery using the board administrator - when I log in it takes me to the SMF screen?  Am I syncing from SMF or through Coppermine?

Not getting any luck?  ANy idea's?

Do you have coppermine wrapped, i dont use the coppermine login at all i actually took it off.  I login through the mambo smf login and it logs me into all.

Problem for the integration of the SMF+JOOMLA

I followed all the instructions, and finally was able to complete the installation and integration (had to make a few changes for the permission though). I fnished all the five steps, then I tried to log in at the joomla frontend or went to the forum frontpage to log in, I got following error

8: Undefined property: login
File: /home2/user/public_html/ktzl/forum/Sources/MOS_SMF.php
Line: 48

I checked the line 48 at MOS_SMF.php, it's an empty line.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Go to your Joomla admin panel.  Go to the Modules Menu.  Click on Site Modules.

In the list of modules, find the mod_smf_login module.  It might not be on the first page.  Click on it.

Edit the params to your liking, and make sure to click Save at the top of the page.

Thanks, that works.

Now I have another question, in the mudule, I set both "Login Redirection URL" and "Logout Redirection URL" back to mambo homagep, but the result is it still redirect to the SMF forum instead. Please help!

Thanks

Is your integration wrapped or unwrapped?

Unwrapped.

That could be your issue.  The redirect is very heavily dependent on the Joomla session, which isn't opened in the unwrapped forum.

You can fix it in the file MOS_SMF.php in your SMF Sources directory:

Find:



Change to:



There should be two instances of this in the file, the first for login, the second for logout.

It works. Thanks a lot. 

One more question 

In the smf login modulen at the backend, I set all the parameters to be "Hide". When I log in, it appears correct, all the greeting, message are not show. But when I log off, I still see the greeting, date, time, etc,like below

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
September 19, 2005, 10:04:51 PM

Any way I can avoid that?

Thanks again.

Could anyone help me? I got stuck at step 2.

I have installed/uploaded the smf_mambo3.1.tar.gz package. And when clikking on "Apply Mod" I got these errors:

8: fwrite() [function.fwrite]: send of 69 bytes failed with errno=32 Broken pipe
File: /**********/forum/Sources/Subs-Package.php
Line: 2875

or

An Error Has Occurred!
You cannot download or install new packages because the Packages directory or one of the files in it are not writable!

I'm using SMF 1.1 RC1.

CHMOD your SMF-folders to be writeable...

I forgot to CHMOD Sources folder  8)

I got a little bit futher... now stuck at integrating Coppermine.

After editing

smf.inc.php line 50 ->  $path = '../forum';
include/init.inc.php ->  define('UDB_INTEGRATION', 'smf');

I tried to access Coppermine and got this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function cache_get_data() in /usr/home/web/*****/gallery/bridge/smf.inc.php(127) : eval()'d code on line 10

Did I do something wrong? Maybe the path of smf installation directory is wrong?

I am going to ask a really stupid question here, well maybe 2 of them and I warn you there will be many more.

I have SMF and Coppermine on one DB so they work together.  Do I need to use the smae DB for the Joomla install ?
IE do I need to use the same DB for the Interation ?  Or can I have a separate DB for the Joomla ?

I have test site backup so I wont kill the main one.
Thanks

You can have Joomla and SMF in separate databases.  But, you must make sure that your SMF database user has access to your Joomla database, and your Joomla database user has access to your SMF database.

My opinion is use all 3 in the same database. It's much easier that way.

Thats what I was thinking although I would like to keep them separate with just the smf and galley combined.  Looks like I need to setup a test site just for this.
Thanks

That being easier is opinion rather than fact.  If you use Fantastico to install, it will automatically be installed in a separate database, in which case it is far easier to leave it in two databases, and just ensure that each database user has access to the other database.

Two databases can also make it much easier to manage a very large website, because the database backup files are smaller and more managable.

I usually suggest that if you have a very large and active site (500+ posts/day) you are far better off using separate databases.

Ok how do I get them to access each other if I use one for smf and coppermine and 1 forJoomla ?

i followed the tutorial from the first post, and i managed to integrate all 3 together.
but, i have 2 problems:
- login problem: when i login using the login module (the smf module), it only logges me into smf, i'm not logged in into joomla or coppermine...  anyone knows how to solve this problem ?
- when i used the admin account to create a new user (into smf), an user with the same name was created into joomla (jos_users table). this means that, if i want to add some users to smf_members table (using a mysql script), i'll also have to add them to jos_users table ?

I have smf & joomla integrated but I'm stuck on coopermine,
I've followed the first steps :
Coppermine Integration
1. Go to the bridge directory and open smf.inc.php with an editor.
2. Edit Line 50 to point to your smf installation directory.
3. Save smf.inc.php.
4. Edit the file include/init.inc.php. At the beginning of the file you will find the following lines :
etc.

But when I go to coppermine I get:
Fatal error :
There was an error while processing a database query

I am well pleased - after FINALLY being able to integrate Joomla / SMF / Coppermine into my Joomla project!

After numerous amendments to my hosting setup - i.e. configuring my domain to have the default web address of http://www.mydomain.co.uk instead of http://mydomain.co.uk.  Didn't help as this domain was with a new host so assumed setup was the same as old provider!

Once I knew I had everything in place correct I followed the above guide once again.

My only recommendation to the installation is:-

Ensure that you are able to apply the mod files for SMF through the SMF screen.  I had SAFE MODE enabled on my php.ini with my host - and when I editted files the relevant files it wouldn't work.  Eventually got SAFE MODE disabled would allow me to install the SMFbridge step 1 without any problems.