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Yuval Adam
Yuval Adam

Reputation: 165242

Best way to integrate legacy phpBB forum into Joomla

What is the best way to integrate a legacy phpBB forum into a new Joomla site?

Basically I want to keep the navigation links (top and main menu), and embed the forum as pages in the site.

Is this feasible?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 922

Answers (2)

GmonC
GmonC

Reputation: 10970

If you need user integration for Joomla and phpBB you can use JFusion, so people logged in Joomla will be logged in phpBB. Registered users in Joomla will be replicated to phpBB too (and vice versa, you have to setup JFusion configuration to decide which system is the "master"). I've been using JFusion with a Moodle and Joomla installation and it's working pretty well.

To "integrate" your forum to your Joomla installation, you have a fast implementation: in your top menu, create a link and change it's Menu Item Type to Wrapper. In Parameters, set Wrapper URL to your phpBB path. This way you will have an iframe with your forum.

If you need a more robust solution, I would try to develop a component.

Upvotes: 1

Luke
Luke

Reputation: 21236

I would theme the forum appropriately and put it on a sub-domain like http://forum.mydomain.com. This way it's unlikely to clash with the rest of your website.

Upvotes: 0

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