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#1 2011-11-29 19:17:29
- newnoise
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Integration of a board-software, which one is the easiest?
Hi,
for the website im currently designing I need to integrate a board into the look&feel of the page.
A two hour google-tour couldnt help me with the needed information .. too bad.
So: is there any board-software which is easy to integrate into textpattern? The board does not have to be too complex, just a simple one is needed (like this one her for example).
I found a plugin (TXPhorum) but it seems outdated and without support, also I could not get it running easily. Even though this would be the easiest approach for sure.
I know that I can show latest posts etc. using the txp plugin to parse a rss-feed, but than I would still have to style the board exactly as the page …
So the big question: is there any board where I can just insert the main part into my layout? And maybe even have txp plugin to cooperate with it? I dont need anything like sharing a user-table or anything. Just a board that fits perfectly into my design, where I can get some “latest posts”, “latest topics” stuff via plugin?
edit: oh and it would be really great and also important that the forum can be included into site-search!
Thanks
noise
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Re: Integration of a board-software, which one is the easiest?
I have resolved this issus same years ago with phpbb. Whit rss plugin you can show latest post etc, and it depend of your ability with css and html to create a theme for a board like our TXP site!
Now, I don’t know plugins or Tips to integrate any board but if with integrate you mean only layout is only a n html/css issues
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Re: Integration of a board-software, which one is the easiest?
I found that punBB offered the easiest method regarding latest posts which does not require rss parsing.
All you need is to add: <ul><txp:php>include($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "http://domain.com/forum/extern.php");</txp:php></ul> somewhere in your txp template and the latest posts appear.
Also there is a script somewhere in the punBB forums which allows login to the board from other non punBB pages.
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#4 2011-12-02 11:09:58
- newnoise
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Re: Integration of a board-software, which one is the easiest?
Hi,
thanks for the replies.
As I understand your posts there is no way to integrate the board into txp-search, also there is no way to display txp-contents on the board-site?
Too bad,
noise
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Re: Integration of a board-software, which one is the easiest?
there is a way to integrate the search and the txp content in the forum site.
Check out neme.org regarding how we integrated the search from 3 dbs and forum.neme.org regarding txp content there.
Re txp content in the forum we use rah_external.
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Re: Integration of a board-software, which one is the easiest?
newnoise Forum integration under the hood of Textpattern is possible but maybe you should look at the Drupal CMS first if you want total integration in the future.
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#7 2011-12-03 17:55:43
- newnoise
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Re: Integration of a board-software, which one is the easiest?
Hi,
thanks again for the replies. The integration of textpattern-contents into the forum works perfectly, also the other way round. Thanks!
The only thing I would really appreciate would be the combined search, does anyone have any idea or hint or just a keyword I could use to find a solution for that? Unfortunately my PHP-skills won’t be nearly good enough to put some code together myself.
Thanks!
noise
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#8 2011-12-09 15:59:58
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Re: Integration of a board-software, which one is the easiest?
Well I guess there is no way to do this except programming it by myself, right?
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Re: Integration of a board-software, which one is the easiest?
You could do the search how we do it in neme.org. if you want it that way I could post the code here.
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#10 2011-12-09 16:39:15
- uli
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Re: Integration of a board-software, which one is the easiest?
newnoise wrote:
I found a plugin (TXPhorum) but it seems outdated and without support, also I could not get it running easily. Even though this would be the easiest approach for sure.
Did you follow the discussion in a parallel thread?
Last edited by uli (2011-12-09 16:40:59)
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