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Hello!

Great to see someone working on the Mambo+SMF bridge again, Mambo sorely needs a real forum software.

Now, my plee is to make this bridge work with Community Builder (http://www.mambojoe.com/). I have really gotten into ComBuilder after seeing the Enhanced version from MamboMe (http://www.mambome.com/). It just makes the profiles really cool. See an example here: A profile at a cat site (http://acatexperience.com/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=70) - Something like that, only with SMF instead of SimpleBoard - would rock!

Still, I know CB uses it's own user-table, so it might not work with this bridge? Would be great if one of the gurus could take a look at this!

I actually have the old version of SMF-Bridge integrated with CB login already. I just have to re-apply it to this new version. I will post it when its done.

woah, great news!  ;D

Thanks in advance. I'll contribute with a norwegian translation!

You probably have a lot to do, but how long do you think you need to do this?

What needs to be done, is it maybe something I can do myself?
If so, please post your old files, and I'll have a look, maybe I can figure it out :)

Thanks!

I'm just having a social life today. My friends think i'm getting anti-social now ;D.

Anyway, forget about the old files because there's a lot of hack there. Besides, the code completely changed since that early version. But, I think the enhancement should be easy. You can probably figure it out quickly.

That's fantastic news! Please let everyone know when you are done integrating your SMF with CB. That is going to be one of the marriages of the century (the other being SMF and Mambo). :)

BTW, I saw your post on the SMF forum regarding your views of wrapped inside mambo. Not exactly sure what you meant by that, but from my perspective, the more integrated SMF is inside mambo the better. Ideally, they would run off the same template and CSS files so the when you change the look of one, the other would change in the same way.

keymaster: Agreed, the more integrated, the better!

MamboMe released *another* new version of their Community Builder Enhanced today, with lots of new stuff. Guestbook for every user?  :o
Check it out here: http://mambome.com/content/view/58/2/
The development of this enhanced version is outperforming the original CB by miles :P

Anyway, yeah, I think lots and lots of mambers will be happy for a Community Builder + Mambo + SMF integration. I actually think there's a need for a good working example of the three, to show all the mambers what can be achieved with these three, as many seems to either not know of neither CB nor SMF, or what they can do... the sky is the limit :)

Although SMF seems to be a superior forum than simpleboard, there is currently no comparison with respect to integration.

In particular, the points one would still like to see in SMF integration are:

1. strong integration with CB, as per simpleboard.
2. strong integration with CB enhanced, as per simpleboard.
3. discussbot for mambo content items (very important).
4. driven off mambo template CSS and images.
5. don't want to see a separate login box for the SMF forum. The mambo login box is the only one we need to see.
6. don't want to see separate user profiles in both SMF and CB. The CB (especially the enhanced one at mambome.com) is far superior. It is confusing to see two profiles.
7. Mambo modules for most active thread, most recent posts, most active users.

Thanks, and keep up the good work.

Yes, I agree. That list would be good milestone. I guess it will take a while though, as these functions probably require some heavy modding of SMF.

I think that if you have pt 1. covered, you will automatically have nr 2 as well. The only thing needed then, is that MamboMe agrees to put some SMF config parameters in the integration tab of CBE, but my experience is that MrJeff will gladly allow that.

Admin: Do you think this wishlist is reasonable/reachable? What kind of timeframe are we talking?

These are reasonable wishlist.
#3 and #7 are existing... go to SMF-Bridge project in MamboForge. They should be compatible.

This is reachable, but it will take some time. I also need to see if a lot of people really needs this kind of feature.

I almost installed the hack but then I've read this thread and... I'll wait for keymaster's list being completely available.

Gabriele

Hi,

I did a bit of research into exactly what makes SimpleBoard so "integrated".

So in the interests of helping things along, here are some details to help with further integrating SMF into mambo. If these are done, it may be that SMF will become the mambo forum of choice in place of SB.

1. Disable the ability to login to SMF
- remove the SMF login box
- remove the words "Please login or register" from the box at the top of the SMF page.
- any other entrance to SMF login? If so, disable it too.

2. Interface with CB or CB Enhanced 
(of course, this may require changes by either mambome.com or mambojoe.com)

2a.Disable the SMF profile
- when the user tries to change his profile, he should be sent to CB, where he can change his profile (for all components in a single place).

2b. Add the following stats to the CB profile
- SMF karma
- SMF # posts user made
- SMF rank

2c. Amalgamated registration component which supports both CB/CBE and SMF.

3. Just take the following as is from SMF Bridge 3.x project (as per admin's earlier post).

3a. Stats modules
- most recent posts, most active thread, most active users

3b. DiscussBot

4. Delete access to the SMF calendar functionality. The mambo calendars are much superior (extCalendar or events_calendar), and we don't need both.

5. CSS and image file integration
- want SMF to use the same images and CSS as the rest of mambo.
- I know little about this area, so no idea how ridiculous this sounds, but it is important to get the "look and feel" the same somehow.

That's it.

After these items, I believe SMF will overtake SB as the main forum component for mambo.

I don't believe it is of any great significance that the backend SMF admin panel is different. Most webmasters place first priority on the customer experience and making things "feel integrated" on the front end. If they have to forgo a tighter back end to get the greater power of SMF, they will, in my uneducated opinion, choose SMF.

id also love to see this happen, i would ditch simpleboard is this happens  :D Is there any news about something like happening??

It would be pretty simple, just have the option for SMF to disable its own profiles etc, and make it link up to community builders ones, also to add your posts count etc in the CB profile.

When all the minor bugs are fixed.

It would be great if someone good in PHP can work with me because I got priorities now thats getting in the way of my Mambo hobby  :-[

Oh, I'd like to help out.
I have done some php, but not too much, and I'm a little lost as to where I should start looking for changes...

But, by all means, if you have a todo-list which goes a bit in-depth, I'd gladly take a look at it!

thanks for all the effort!

So, how does this evolve with the 1.0.3 version of the bridge? Any closer?  ;)

1.3.0 beta1 is out. It now supports CB.

This could be dumb but what is CB I know it stands for Community Builder but what does it do.

Did a little search it seems this CB is a profile thingy, am I correct?

What is the difference between CB (www.mambojoe.com) and CB Enhanced (www.mambome.com), are they completley different. Thanks

Browse those two sites, and you will quickly see the differences.
MamboJoe will have RC1 ready soon, and it offers some of the same functionality that MamboMe has added to their version.

It's only profile thingy not interested at this time, SMF has nice profile with lots of features.

Does anyone have a SMF 1.0.3 SMF Forum 1.3.1 and COmmunityy Builder (mambojoe or mambome) integration working? I had the Mamboi & SMF Forum working well, tried integrating CB (from Mambojoe) and all h^%*^
broke loose. Had to rebuild my site. Womdering if others had worked through the steps to get this working?

Paul Earley

Install mambo, then CB(E), install smf, then this integration according to instructions. Works like a charm at my testsite (http://d1652254.a29.star-dialog.no/).

OK, I will try in that order and see what happens. I installed CB last.
Paul

So what ever happened to this.  Are CB and SMF compatible with the new versions of the bridge?  I would like to know what the final solution is to getting a compatible CB and SMF site up.

I am nearly finished with the CB - SMF integration, new users are synced inside SMF during registration and depending on the administrators options (require confirmation, approval etc).
I have also ported the gallery2 adduser functions to the CB components all of this options are controlled through the admin section, so the user can decide if he wants SMF and / or Gallery2 integration. If none of this 2 components are present then the CB component acts as normal.
I released also the mod_smfpm module, which allows the user to have his red and unread pm status.
The CB component (the hacked one) will be ready sometime next week depending on my workload.
Regards