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I am having trouble getting phpBB to authenticate with our Active Directory

I am pretty sure that the settings that I am using are correct, so all possible things can be wrong which I should check out so that I can make authentication with our Active Directory work. ...

Two PHPBB questions

Hello, I was wondering if i could get some help with two questions I have: Firstly, is is possible, assuming I have a random variable to load up two different registration screens? Ie. one with and without the captcha? or one with and without some other stuff i would like to use? Secondly, is it possible to have a second log in box? ...

How can I integrate users' logins from my site into phpBB?

Hello all, I need some help with what is probably a newbie question in terms of modifying phpBB. I have a whole system developed in PHP, and I would like to integrate phpBB so that people can navigate into the forums and post seamlessly, without logging in again. Now, using the phpBB users table as the users table for my system (and h...

Scaling phpBB?

I'm looking to scale an existing phpBB installation by separating the read queries from the write queries to two separate, replicated MySQL servers. Anyone succeeded in doing this, specifically with phpBB? The biggest concern I have so far is that it seems like the queries are scattered haphazardly throughout the code. I'd love to hear ...

Use PHPBB2 Login Credentials in my site

I'm currently using a PHPBB2 forum for a section of one of my sites, and I would like to extend this site (add new pages, scripts, etc). I would like to restrict access to these pages to the users already logged in the PHPBB2 Forum. In fact, if only members of a certain MemberGroup could access these pages, that would be great. Is th...

phpbb related session question / cookie

i have one user which is being thrown out from time to time trying to post an article on the phpbb3 forum. all other users are fine. i presume its some problems with their cookies but she doesnt have any problem on any other forums. have any idea? i just told her to try a different browser to test it. ...

Unable to set chmod 640?

I just installed phpbb on my website. According to phpbb advice, I was suppose to set the config.php chmod to 640. In filezilla(my ftp program), I tried right-click the file, then select file permissions to 640, but it gives me this error: 500 'SITE CHMOD 640 config.php': command not understood How do i change the chmod? I am using win...

allow logins from multiple domains in phpbb?

Hi all, I've read a bunch of different things, none of which seem to be my situation. I have a site which uses a phpbb forum, and we also have multiple wordpress blogs which can use the database of phpbb via a plugin named wp-phpbb (can't post another hyperlink, but its at simplicitypoint dot com) . It works great for something that is...

Javascript PHPBB-like URL tag processing

Hi all! I'm working on a php dynamic web page that has a element that let user write and their text is show in "real time" just javascript-processing the text & tags on a element. I change the "b","u", and tags between brackets (like phpbb style) to its html equivalent like "strong" ,"u", and so using javascript regexps. Problem occ...

phpBB forum autologin and search

I would be grateful if someone could please show me an example of how to login to a phpBB forum remotely and perform a search. The language i am using is java however, i just need to know the steps involved. even some pointers on what to google to get the answers i need would be great i have googled everything i can think of. ...

phpBB3 Developing - Where to start?

I'm trying to start building a whole application using phpBB3 user system as a base using CodeIgniter framework. However before starting I would like to hear a piece of advice from any phpBB3 Developer out there. I've been developing for Wordpress and Drupal. But recently I decided I would build up something fit to my needs instead of u...

Grabbing the information from a url?

I have an on line project "question of the week"; this project allows the users to submit their questions. These questions are saved in a mysql table; the question is also sent over to another simplepost.php which stores the question in a phpBB. I want to use this phpBB for every question, for discussions on that question. So now, my ...

Use phpBB credentials for a blog

Is there any way to setup a Wordpress blog (or any other blog system) and let users use the same credentials used in a phpBB forum...a sort of database sharing. ...

Removing Unnecessary Header Title in PHPBB such as "Index Page" or "View Topic"

I need help removing the unnecessary PHPBB header title on my forum for SEO purposes. I need some type of hack or something to get this removed. I want to have the title of a certain topic followed by a category and then the name of the forum. THanks GUys! ...

Can I use phpBB as a "fake" identification provider?

I have a lot of users that have accounts on a phpBB forum. I would like them to be able to re-use their username and password on a new website. So the plan is that if I look up a username/password in my app, and its missing, I would like to call a page on phpBB that will tell me: If the username/password is valid The email address...

Eclipse HTML editor for HTML template files

I'm trying to edit phpbb HTML template file with Eclipse Ganymedes version 3.4.1 containing Web Developer Tools. These template files contain HTML markup with template variable marks in form {*variable_name*}. Now, when trying to open such file, Eclipse trys to validate also these template variable marks. For example template contains ...

Facebook Connect on phpBB2 !

Hi :) I'm trying to integrate Facebook Connection module to an old phpbb 2 version. Have you ever tried a similar integration or found a nice tutorial showing how to do it ? thank you :) ...

Zend Framework with phpBB: URL problem

I am using zend framework with Apache sever on Ubuntu. When I try my site on localhost, I use following url for example: http://test.dev/authentication/login http://test.dev/student/profile Where 'authentication' refers to AuthenticationController and 'login' refers to loginAction. 'student' refers to StudentController and 'profile'...

phpBB global password

How can I create a global password in phpBB, as in all forums are locked/unviewable to begin, and typing it in once unlocks all of them? It would also help if it stored the password for future visits, as well as not requiring a password for registered users. I know that I could use a .htaccess/.htpasswd solution, but 1. it requires both ...

Posting In a phpBB Board By a C# Application

Hello, I'm going to improve one of my new projects and one of the features that I want to add is the possibility to post a new thread in a phpBB forum board, but it's possible to do this? If it is, how can I do this? Thanks. ...