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From: Joe S. <joe...@us...> - 2004-01-21 15:35:30
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:05:36AM -0500, Mike Gifford wrote: > Hello, > > Thought that I'd forward this question over to the phpSlash list to see > if anyone has done anything like this and would have some suggestions. > Tim's looking to bring this into Back-End, but hopefully we'd be able to > bring that over to PSL pretty easily to add to the new foundry. > > Mike > > -----Forwarded Message----- > From: Tim Verhoeven <dj...@si...> > To: Back-end Development list <bac...@li...> > Subject: [Back-end-development] Integrating Phorum into Back-end > Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:45:19 +0100 > > Hey, > > As some of you know I'm trying to integrate the Phorum messageboard > (www.phorum.org) into Back-end. Yesterday I've made some first attempts at > it. This using the BE_survey.php file as a example. (Uses PHP's output > buffering and includes). > > This allowed me to get started with it and get a feeling on how the Phorum > code is build. > Basically each function is written in a seperate php file. Some basic > functions are present in common.php. But all the rest are standalone. So > no OO or functions calls we can use. There also is no central index file > that controls the flow, so a typical phorum page contains links to a lot > of different files. phorum5 has a script for integrating into other scripts that does call all of those scripts from central index file. I think we can just capture that output using output buffering. It's been awhile since I've looked at it. I would suggest integrating phorum5 as a start instead of the current stable stuff. It is a complete rewrite. > Templates is very simple, they just include a header and footer into the > output. This is how I integrated phorum into phpslash. I changed the headers to use the phpslash config files, header, columns and footer. Here are some old patches: [ 541835 ] Phorum w/ phpSlash look and feel. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=541835&group_id=10566&atid=310566 and an older: [ 541701 ] Simple Phorum header and footer files. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=541701&group_id=10566&atid=310566 phorum5 does have its own templating system. We may be able to tack some stuff in there easier. It compiles the templates to php and caches them. I think you can have phpblocks in the templates, but I'm not sure. > For DB they use a abstraction layer (nothing standard). > At one time I had a phplib abstraction file for phorum5. It's not too hard. I think Brian made a couple of changes that I suggested along the way. > As I understand it Back-end needs it's content passed (using a variable, > function, ...). So there are some strategies to make Phorum integrate into > Backend : > > 1) Make a "index" file ourself that intercepts all links made on phorum > pages and use those to select to correct page to include. > Problems : we need to parse the get arguments and forward those and > edit each file to change all <a> tags. > 2) Make functions for each phorum file and have a "index" file that calls > the required function. So we don't need to parse the get arguments. > Problems : a lot of rewriting, we still could use PHP output buffering > to reduce that workload. > 3) Rewrite it into a "real" Backend module/plugin with a class file > containing all functions. This allows to rewrite all stuff to use > Back-end provided functions (DB, Session, cookies,...) > Problems : a lot ot work, no real quick results. > Yeah. I didn't get this far yet. > So now for discussion. Did I miss another way to do this. What is the best > option to choose. As I see it, it will be nearly impossible to make the > ingration work without touching any of the phorum files. So for me at the > moment I'm more going for option 3. > That was my conclusion with the stable tree too. The authorization can be done. You can patch the login process to preauth BE/PSL. Then change the login links to the phorum login page. I got this to work. I wanted to auth phorum using the phplib auth, but went the brute force way to get something working. I never consolidated registration. At this point I decided to wait till phorum5 was more stable. At the time it was only in cvs and not near any kind of release. > Any other ideas, sugggestions, ... > I would like to help get phorum5 working as psl0.8 module first. This is one of the modules I want available when psl0.8 is released. After that, maybe help. backport to BE0.7 thanks, Joe > Regards, > Tim Verhoeven > > |
