WP & PHPBB migration

  • Resolved richardandrewsmedia

    (@richardandrewsmedia)


    14 years, 5 months ago

    Ok our website is here: https://www.suckinrabbits.com/forum

    (dont know why it keep changing to /forum-2)

    and our forum is here: https://www.suckinrabbits.com/forum/index.php

    How much of a headache is it to get the forum to appear on our wp forum page, I guess I will have to play with my phpbb template to get it to fit 800px across.

    Once I have done this is there a way I can make our members wp username and passwords also work on the forum so that when they log into the site it automatically logs them into the forum.

    For now we are just going to tell our members they wil have to log in to the forum separately should they wish to.

    Thanks in advance x

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  • Thread Starter richardandrewsmedia

    (@richardandrewsmedia)

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    I tried to merge smf forum with wp a while back. The best way to do the site integration is to change your menu bar to use a bookmark list instead of a page list. That way you can define through a bookmark list exactly what links you would like to show. Use wp_list_bookmarks(). The arguments are nearly identical to wp_list_pages(), but if it doesn’t look quite right, look up these functions in the documentation part of this site and it will walk you through adding the correct paremeters.

    I’m not the best at PHP. I only know a little, but what I believe you can do is merge the phpBB database with the wp database. Then you can alter the login on phpBB to use the wp login tables instead of the phpBB login tables. As I understand it, this is not a totally rare project so you can probably hire a freelancer to do it if you don’t know how for a decent wage. If you ever do it, I’d be curious to see how it worked out.

    Thread Starter richardandrewsmedia

    (@richardandrewsmedia)

    Ok where is the wp_list_bookmarks() / wp_list_pages() code found on my current FORUM page tab?

    ta

    It depends on your theme. It is usually in the header.php or some themes put it in something like menu.php. You just have to look for it.

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