Integrate OSCommerce and PhpBB3 - Is it possible?

[sirope]

Hi!!

 

I don't know if it is possible... I have a phpbb3 empty forum, and i'd like to integrate it with OSCommerce..

I mean, if a customer is registered in the shopping cart, so it is in the forum, and viceversa.

The appearance is not a problem, using the same header and colors, both are integrated.

 

Cheers :P

[arietis]

Hi!!

 

I don't know if it is possible... I have a phpbb3 empty forum, and i'd like to integrate it with OSCommerce..

I mean, if a customer is registered in the shopping cart, so it is in the forum, and viceversa.

The appearance is not a problem, using the same header and colors, both are integrated.

 

Cheers :P

 

i've integrated phpbb with another site, so yes it's possible.

 

i ended up disabling the registration, password change and all other related features in phpbb. then, when the user logs in to the site and goes to the forums, i wrote a little code to insert the appropriate session information into the phpbb session so it thought the person had logged in. there are a couple of gotchas that you need to cover, but it wasn't too difficult for me.

 

if you'd like to talk more about it, feel free to get in touch.

[l0st.Drago]

Yes, I'm interested in this as well. It will be nice to keep the user groups as well!

[mbett]

Arietis,

 

Could you post the code to insert the appropriate session information into the phpbb session? I (and many others) would really appreciate it. Thanks!

 

Michael

 

i've integrated phpbb with another site, so yes it's possible.

 

i ended up disabling the registration, password change and all other related features in phpbb. then, when the user logs in to the site and goes to the forums, i wrote a little code to insert the appropriate session information into the phpbb session so it thought the person had logged in. there are a couple of gotchas that you need to cover, but it wasn't too difficult for me.

 

if you'd like to talk more about it, feel free to get in touch.

[arietis]

Arietis,

 

Could you post the code to insert the appropriate session information into the phpbb session? I (and many others) would really appreciate it. Thanks!

 

Michael

 

well, maybe i wasn't clear in my previous post. when i say i integrated it with another site, it was not an oscommerce site. so posting that code wouldn't help you. based on my experience with that, however, i know that such integration is possible.

 

since then, i have found out that there is an osc contribution for phpbb / osc integration. it may not work with the current version of phpbb though, as i understand there's been an upgrade to that product. you might take a look at that contribution as a starting point though and see if you can get something to work.

 

sorry i couldn't be more helpful.....

[mbett]

Ok - thanks for responding!

 

Michael

 

well, maybe i wasn't clear in my previous post. when i say i integrated it with another site, it was not an oscommerce site. so posting that code wouldn't help you. based on my experience with that, however, i know that such integration is possible.

 

since then, i have found out that there is an osc contribution for phpbb / osc integration. it may not work with the current version of phpbb though, as i understand there's been an upgrade to that product. you might take a look at that contribution as a starting point though and see if you can get something to work.

 

sorry i couldn't be more helpful.....