If I understand you correctly, you need to verify a user based on his phpBB account and then set a CodeIgniter user session data?

If that is the case, it shouldn’t be too hard.

You need to verify the user credentials (check how phpBB3 hashes user passwords and build query which checks the user credentials and if the user belongs to the group “Administrators”) and if the query returns a row, set the CodeIgniter user session data.

Thanks to you for replying…...

Basically what i want is maintain the same account for my back end of site which is in CI and BB administrator. So when admin is logged in back end of site ,He also gets access to PhpBB administrator panel with same account. Any way am trying it, mean while if any suggestions .. Please post it.

Yes, and the logical solution would be to use the phpBB user system.

It is a bad idea to have the same data in two places (phpBB user table and separate table for your application) - database should be non-redundant.

You can also create new tables to store additional user information (adding new fields to phpBB user table can cause problem with the future phpBB updates) but you should reference the phpBB user table.

I’ve got an error like this:

any idea what went wrong?
i’m auto-loading the url helper, could it be that’s the problem?
if it is, how can i fix this?

Yes, URL helper is causing the problem.

One solution would be to rename the redirect function in the URL helper (for example to something like CI_redirect()).

Kami_ - 22 October 2009 11:45 AM

Yes, URL helper is causing the problem.

One solution would be to rename the redirect function in the URL helper (for example to something like CI_redirect()).

Thanks for reply,

I’ve renamed the function to CI_redirect(), and it works. I’m successfully logged in.

But somehow it didn’t match to the correct account. I entered the admin’s username and password, but I’m logged in as an anonymous user.

- I’ve made the Bb library like in post#9,
- follow the modifications as in post#7,
- and last one i renamed the url_helper’s redirect() function.

Where am i missing?

Any response appreciated.

Edit
oops.. so sorry.. got mixed up with the integration with phpbb thread.

Hi guys,
Can i ask where you are supposed to unzip phpbb within your codeigniter directory so you can install and navigate the user to the index.php of phpbb via your existing site.

Thanks in advance.

It doesn’t matter.

phpBB can be located anywhere in your public directory.

Only thing you should keep in mind is to change the FORUM_ROOT_PATH constant which is pointing to the phpBB root path (and of course to make appropriate changes to the .htaccess file if you are using one).

Thanks for the reply Kami_!
I have extracted PHPBB into a folder called forums onto the root of the directory. Having it in this position allowed me to navigate to the install directory.

So if i want to create a URL to point the user to the forums i simply nav them to base_url/forums.

Thanks again!

I’m just gonna bump this for a sec. Very simple bridge, I like the concept.

I have installed a phpbb3, no problem. Can access it and everything. The moment I reference the library in my code by loading it, the page fails though.

That is the include bit of the constructor of the controller in which I want access to the phpbb_library library. My suspicion is that I am not putting down the correct FORUM_ROOT_PATH. I have tried quite a few options there though. It is located at http://www.symbols-larp.com/phplarp/phpBB3

This did not work:

Or it could be something else all together. Any clue?

@Maglok

have you tried doing this:

To clear things up, do you have a successful installation of PHPBB3 running on the server?
If so, the forum path is in the config.php file of the forum installation directory.

bEz

What you quoted is the basic, but I still need to put in the url then.

Yes I have a successful phpbb3 running. http://www.symbols-larp.com/phplarp/phpBB3.

The config file does not have the forum installation directory, it has this:

update: Could it be that CI is tripping over the fact the server runs PHP 4.4.9 and does some get_instance?

i have a site build on CI with DX_auth having multiple users on it and i want to add phpbb forum in my project like phpbb3 is it possible my CI site user after login can access phpbb3 without login. and if admin try to login to backend is it possible with the same library or not.

Did you get it to work Maglok? I’m having the same problem.. I installed the forum at http://www.mydomain.com/forums (this is actually a subdomain, so - forums.mydomain.com). My CI based site is at the root - http://www.mydomain.com I’ve .set FORUM_ROOT_PATH to ‘forums/’ and I get:

You are not logged-in.

(I am using the test code found in the Wiki.)

Any idea’s?

Thanks!