PunBB integration?

Dawk · 2005-02-22 22:05:10

Hey all =)

Has anyone seriously looked into a PunBB integration yet? At least so members can share username/password/login?

Just wondering if its in the works? has some work done already? or its time to get busy on it?

Thanx

Last edited by Dawk (2005-02-22 22:06:52)

Jeremie · 2005-02-22 22:16:36

Don’t know, but some kind of common auth would be quite nice indeed.

Dawk · 2005-02-22 22:40:02

OK, thanx Jeremie.
The big thing was if anyone was already working on one? We don’t need 2 =) I’ll start looking into it then.

I’m going to need this done, for either PunBB or another really clean forum I like, MyTopix.

If anyone has any ideas on this? Post away!
It will be a day or so before I do anything.

Thanx again

osei · 2005-02-22 22:49:03

go for punbb, then i i could use this too :) good luck!

tenthumbs · 2005-02-22 23:24:37

bbpress , the forum they use over at wordpress.org seem quite nice, and seems to produce nicer feeds then punBB.
it doesn’t seem to have textile, but afaik, there’s no textileplugin for punBB either until Dean choose to release his work as one.

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PeterS · 2005-02-22 23:30:33

If there was an RSS feed for the forums, then you could simply include an RSS feed for that forum, and it would update when topics are updated, etc.

I don’t suppose it’d be too hard, but, it’s way out of my league, sadly.

tenthumbs · 2005-02-22 23:40:54

there are some sort of rss-feed for theese forums too , btw, but they only give you the post headlines, and aren’t really useful.

NikLP · 2005-03-01 12:45:42

> Dawk wrote:

> another really clean forum I like, MyTopix.

Mmmm! It’s Tag soup-er! :)

Oh, and yes I think some form of integration between punbb and txp would be sweet. Common auth wouldn’t be too much sweat surely, but wouldn’t the ideal thing be to incorporate the bb into txp so you can keep your navigation constant? – Or you could hard code the template files for punbb I guess…

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alicson · 2005-03-01 16:42:58

there actually is a textile plugin for punbb. it just needs to be updated for punbb 1.2.2 (there is a version for punbb 1.2.1).

i would love to see an integration between punbb and textpattern. really really really.

bluearc21 · 2005-03-01 16:55:20

> alicson wrote:

> there actually is a textile plugin for punbb. it just needs to be updated for punbb 1.2.2 (there is a version for punbb 1.2.1).

Have you tried it Alicson? Where’s it live?

alicson · 2005-03-01 18:29:35

PunBB Textile 1.0.1 :)

i haven’t got it successfully working cuz i have punbb 1.2.2 installed, and it only works for 1.2.1… but there are others who say it’s working well on theirs

alicson · 2005-03-13 23:50:02

> tenthumbs wrote:
> there are some sort of rss-feed for theese forums too , btw, but they only give you the post headlines, and aren’t really useful.

fyi regarding RSS feeds for PunBB:
on March 5, 2005, Alex King says:
<blockquote>I’ve modified this RSS mod found here:
http://forums.punbb.org/viewtopic.php?id=5100
to support RSS feeds for Categories, Forums and Topics (Latest Posts is still included of course). I also added code to exclude posts that are not visible to guests (I think, someone may want to check this).</blockquote>

here it is: http://forums.punbb.org/viewtopic.php?id=6586

*edit: url

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Jeremie · 2005-03-14 03:21:05

One thing…

I think it should be important that there is no “real integration” of PunBB, but either some kind of transparent and powerful bridge, or gateway, between PunBB and Textpattern.

Integration would generally means that PunBB will be integrated into, and that can be read as “put the PunBB code into TXP”. And that mean a lot of hell work to keep up with PunBB new versions, mods, and so on.

It would be better to leave the 2 apps mostly untouched, unhacked, but to build a bridge between them so that for the end user and the author it work transparently.

In time, down the road toward TXP 2, maybe we can convince Dean and the others that the all comments system is just redundant, a forum sofware (like PunBB) can do it, is better equiped to do it, and will always be better at it.

But that’s not a point right now with 1.0

kirpi · 2005-03-14 13:37:44

Indeed, bbPress happens to be very interesting:

a) It seems to work well, although at an early development stage.
b) It’s light, but has all you need to run useful forums.
c) It’s newborn (sort of), so that a positive cooperation between WP (bbPress) and TXP coders/helpers could lead to an open, easy pluggable (bridge-able) tool for both platforms. Sharing help between communities is a good thing, usually.
d) Sharing the permissioning system could probably be easy, then.

> all comments system is just redundant,
> a forum sofware can do it, is better equiped to do it,
> and will always be better at it

It is an interesting idea: could you please make a couple of examples, just to let me understand better, if you like?

Last edited by kirpi (2005-03-14 13:42:34)

davidm · 2005-03-21 16:11:34

kirpi, I think the idea of bbPress is to have something easily bridged with WordPress, not necessarily TextPattern… but then again, I guess the common auth would do the trick for me.

As for Jeremie’s statement, I think comments system are more flexible than a forum : discussions are author-centric, can be presented more freely (not constrained by a specific theme) and last but not least, it’s lighter. I guess it depends on the nature and volume of content : forums are more suited to big content volumes, which make it necessary to structure more rigidly.

Personnally, I see forums and comments as complementary, not antagonist systems…

I would still go for PunBB rather than bbPress which is still immature and a bit light. PunBB is fast, secure and elegant just like TxP, it’s a perfect match :-)

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