PunBB integration?

Dawk · 2006-01-16 19:07:02

Anyone know Zem to get his thoughts?

I saw you posted that he does some custom dev work sometimes?

Jeremie · 2006-01-17 04:18:27

Well, anyone can mail him. But he seems having quite a load of work, so…

Dawk · 2006-01-17 05:53:30

OK, my workload is crazy at the moment anyway.

Like to get the ball rolling though, this’ll be sweet! ;)

Jeremie · 2006-01-17 08:02:01

That’s why I asked for a developper… if any is interested, we could sat down with specifics, and get the ball rolling.

arpan · 2006-01-18 17:51:37

Actually I’ve been thinking about doing something similar, except with the Vanilla Forum

Not exactly the same, but something similar, ie, integrating a weblog and a forum. And it would be easy to adapt for any other forum (but not for use with textpattern)

This is how I was planning on doing it:
Create a simple php script, that would get new discussion posts that were from a particular category (weblog category) and made by the Admin, and display them on the front page.

Clicking on the more link would direct you to the forum discussion post.

Please note that this would not integrate with Textpattern, just a way to use any Forum Software also as a weblog.

Let me know if anyone is interested in that script.

Last edited by arpan (2006-01-18 17:53:19)

Dawk · 2006-01-23 16:51:25

I’d be interested,

been thinking how to pull off something similar?

I was thinking of using punbb for all member registrations & discussions, then pull the punbb thread via RSS & display it under the article with a link to the forum thread.
Still have to manually create the forum thread & post the link in the article though.

The Nucleus/Pun module I have used gets the job done, something similar that creates the forum thread & inserts a link in the article would rock.

EDIT:
I have $100 towards the bridge we discussed here too.
We should got a ransom pool going, that common auth bridge is no simple hack.

Last edited by Dawk (2006-01-23 16:55:51)

hcgtv · 2006-01-23 19:14:58

A bridge that feeds articles to the forum is what I’m most interested in. Basically turning the forum into an advanced commenting mechanism.

Since I’m the only one posting on the Textpattern side, users would sign up on the forum. A common auth bridge could be added later if needed by some users.

I would also throw in $100 into the pool, my PayPal account awaits ;)

Edit: To see how this would all work, visit hcgtv in my sig. I really like the idea of visiting one screen and being able to view any and all comments on one screen.

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Dawk · 2006-01-23 19:31:46

Sounds good Bert,

feeding articles to the forum + adding the forum link to the article would be perfect for now.

Thats $200 :)

chriloi · 2006-01-23 19:44:56

Please put together all your requirements for a txp-punbb bridge and I will see at which costs I can do it for you.

If it’s only an auth and comments bridge, I need approx 2 weeks to finish the job.

Feel free to email me.

maniqui · 2006-01-23 21:58:36

> hcgtv wrote:

> A bridge that feeds articles to the forum is what I’m most interested in. Basically turning the forum into an advanced commenting mechanism.

I would love to see something like this and other ideas I have read in this thread.

I have a question: to post a comment about an article, visitors will have to sign up in the forum? Or it will be possible to post a comment without registering at forums?.

Right now, you dont have to register at a site (managed by TXP) to leave a comment, and that is good, because it’s easy for average users and also for my mom to post a comment.
But registering needs more steps… time… activation… etc.

Also another question, but this is more about PunBB. Is it possible to have just threads related to articles. I mean, 1 article <-> 1 thread, so, no one but the administrator can create new threads.

I would love to see this bridge soon.

hcgtv · 2006-01-24 00:20:03

maniqui,

You can enable guest posting on the forum, no registration required, which I have done on my sites.

Also persmissions in PunBB enable only certain groups to start topics, so an article would be fed over by the site admin and users can respond to it but not start new threads.

For new threads, I created a special forum where users can chat away.

Dawk · 2006-01-24 04:18:54

Looks like its time to start nailing down some specifics aye?

First, do we do this for pun 1.2.10 or 1.3?

@hcgtv, do you have any inside info on the status of 1.3?

Jeremie · 2006-01-24 07:00:29

I’ll start working on some specific scenarios (and I can add some box to the pool, but not as much as you guys, not right now anyhow). But there are a few questions that need answers first :

As stated previously, what version of PunBB do we target ? 1.3 is a major change (and improvement), but I don’t know when it will be out. I’m not sure the SVN version of the 1.3 branch commit by Rickard is accurate of the 1.3 development state. On the other hand, I’m not sure for our purpose there is that much of a difference between 1.2 and 1.3
SQL compatibility: TXP can handle only MySQL (right now), and PunBB can also handle Postgre and SQLite. I would suggest sticking to MySQL to made this easier, but that’s just me.
Charset compatibility: TXP is UTF-8 only, where PunBB is in Latin1 (iso-8859-1) by default but can be easily made to use other charset (including utf-8). Do we say for the bridges to work the PunBB has to be in utf-8, or de we convert the charset when needed ?
How many bridges/modules ? I think we could separate the whole things in two, one for the auth bridge (login/password replication), and one the “the forum as the comment tool”. But again, that’s me.

hcgtv · 2006-01-24 07:13:37

Dawk,

Don’t hold me to this but finishing up PunBB 1.3 is next on Rickard’s todo list, so it should be out soon.

I would vote to use the 1.3 code base because it has some nice new features that would make integration easier and better to maintain. PunBB 1.3 will have extensions, or core hooks into the code, making mods to PunBB easier to travel from version to version. There’s also the SEF urls, no more viewtopic.php?pid=123, so the forum will fit better with a TXP frontend.

Ther are other enhancements, I could gather up a list and post it if anyone is interested.

Dawk · 2006-01-24 14:52:46

Yeah, I’ve been waiting for the SEF & RSS features, thought there were some plugin enhancements coming too like you mentioned.
I’ve been following pun for awhile, long before I started this thread. Pun & TXP is going to be a sweet match! =)

I vote for 1.3 too, I really need this asap though. Have 3 projects in limbo.

@ Jeremie…
I’d vote for MySQL, UTF-8 & not sure on the bridge part?
We should probably let the difficulty in development & plugin maintenance play a big part in that decision? Whichever will be easier?

my 2 pesos =)

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