Mambo integrated with Invision Board

[Jazzy]

Quote taken from thread about Mambo and VB.

Talk with the people who developed the IPB or phpBB hacks to see how they went about it, that would be a great starting point.


Please, who developed IPB hack?

I still haven't found this one, so if it exists, please refer me, because I need that more than life :O

And if this still doesn't exist, maybe someone could say me is it so difficult to integrate these two to use same login? Or they use completely different logins and this is impossible.

The reason this hack must be created is that many people already has their forums before installing mambo. Now I have IPB with 3000 members, 150 000 posts, so I really can't start with the zero again.

[simbo]

http://mosforge.net/projects/mamipb/

that site is new and looks like it is the "official" hacks site.

[Jazzy]

seems it only 30 percent done.
Hope when final IPB 2 version will be relased the development of this component will be finished.

[keliix06]

I believe all the IPB hack will do is tie in with the Mambo login so users don't have to login twice. It will then have to be included with the Wrapper component.

[mmx]

Partly untrue although it could be used that way. Optional replacement files allow frontend embedding. A sample Mambo template will be included. The template design allows the user to switch to full-screen mode and back again.

I believe all the IPB hack will do is tie in with the Mambo login so users don't have to login twice. It will then have to be included with the Wrapper component.

[keliix06]

Thank you for clearing that up :)

[Jazzy]

wow, I don't even thought that in this component would be such thing as wrapper to use the same template.

[scorpius]

it has been about 1 month since the project was registered on mosForge, yet..

This Project Has Not Released Any Files

... is the developer still working on the integration project? .. would love to hear some new updates..

[ACmonKey]

I would also love to hear some updates on this as Invision Board is the forum software of my choice.
My dreams are about to come true: Mambo+InvisionBoard+Gallery(Menalto)+some other bits 'n' pieces

[mmx]

Installation of IPB would be almost the same as normal. It would be installed under a directory called applications/ in the mambo root (e.g. applications/ipb/). The applications/ directory is being used by several other applications of a similar nature to interface them with Mambo (Simple Machines, YAPPSE, vBully, phpBB, ATutor, ZenCart, etc.).

The component is a thin wrapper for the IPB 2.0 installation. It allows a menu to be created in admin and allows the frontend to be wrapped into Mambo. It basically exposes IPB tasks to Mambo so they can be executed from the front or back end.

Authentication between Mambo and IPB is handled using a second component called mamBridge. mamBridge is an implementation of John Lim's Universal PHP Authentication Replication RFC. MOS 5.0 uses a somewhat similar approach but some security holes in the Universal approach have been sealed with mamBridge (as they were for MOS 5.0). mamBridge currently is being merged with the mamSites project (i.e., a site could be a Mambo site or a third-party application). mamSites basically maps the authentication scheme used by Mambo with the schemes used by third-party applications. As such, it includes application specific files for mapping database table fields among the various applications and allows the information in those fields to be exchanged using Remote Procedure Calls.

I would also love to hear some updates on this as Invision Board is the forum software of my choice.
My dreams are about to come true: Mambo+InvisionBoard+Gallery(Menalto)+some other bits 'n' pieces

[Jazzy]

would be possible only to have the same login/password when new user registers to ipb?

Actually I don't need to wrap invision to mambo or integrate admin fuctions.
Would it be possible only to have same authoruzation without wrapping?

[pixelsoul]

Not yet i believe but there is a project set up for it on mosforge..

[mopao2k3]

Pixesoul was down because of bandwithlimit today...
changing host soon or package?

[seventhson]

Well it would be nice if they make it so you can place the forum on a sub domain (forum.myweb.org) instead of forcing you to use a folder under the mambo. As long as they use the same database I do not see why this would be a big problem. This way if your having a problem on the main website you would not need to bother your forum to fix it people could just head straight to your forum.

[mmx]

This will be possible in 5.0 but IPB still needs to be wrapped within a MOS component. However, the template or subtemplate could be fullscreen (not modules, header, footer, etc.). This MIGHT be possible in 4.6 and will keep this in mind, but probably not the first version.

Well it would be nice if they make it so you can place the forum on a sub domain (forum.myweb.org) instead of forcing you to use a folder under the mambo. As long as they use the same database I do not see why this would be a big problem. This way if your having a problem on the main website you would not need to bother your forum to fix it people could just head straight to your forum.

[mmx]

Possible in 4.6 and better in 5.0.

would be possible only to have the same login/password when new user registers to ipb?

Actually I don't need to wrap invision to mambo or integrate admin fuctions.
Would it be possible only to have same authoruzation without wrapping?