WordPress PHPBB Plugin

For years there has been no really good plugin for making a connection between phpBB and WordPress. (or any other CMS)

But recently appeared a new challenger. OnePress community. Presenting as a theme framework. it offered to connect phpbb to wordpress.

And the version 2.8 of WordPress appeared. with new API’s and the plugin didn’t work anymore.

at this time, I saw that nobody could get it to work again. This made me create a fork of the onepress plugin, dropping all the framework part. and keeping only the connector part.

By reverse engingeering and documentation reading. I understood the mechanic of the plugin and of the different login API’s. By this I created the first working plugin for wordpress 2.8 and phpbb3.

I made it for personal use  only and thought that Onepress would quickly come up with a new plugin version.

But they dropped the support, making dozens of angry users.

When I saw this, I thought that was up to me now, to publish the working plugin !

After hours of refinement. here is an almost working version of the plugin.

Informations :

PHPBB Single Sign On

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Roadmap

  • Make it work on multiple db's
  • Uninstaller

0.7.1

  • Corrected a bug on new installation with the paths
  • Works with Wordpress 3

0.7

  • Ability to put wordpress in a child folder of phpbb or at the same level
  • Bugfix : Enabled capital letters logins on both sides.
  • Bugfix : "Parameter 1 to wpbb_login() expected to be a reference, value given..." should be corrected.

0.6.3

  • Bugfix : Changed common.orig.php to common-orig.php to solve some problems
  • Change : Changed the match from username_clean to username, should solve some problems with the double usernames

0.6.2

  • Bugfix : Removed the backslash before the comments. was because of a security feature of wordpress that caused every entry to be backslashed. Phpbb manages it differently, and that caused a double check that added these backslashes.

0.6.1

  • Bugfix : annoying bug in the admin area, now it is possible to change db to wpdb

0.6

  • Preliminary version for the multiple databases
  • Bugfix : Captcha problem if the user makes 3 errors in his password in phpbb (reported by Ramon Fincken http://www.ramonfincken.com/ )
  • Bugfix : op_userexists function doesn't exist (patch proposed by Brian Pan)
  • Bugfix : Blank user creation when logging in the first time from phpbb (Brian Pan tracked down the bug and I made the little fix)
  • Added options to the control Panel
  • Better install instructions.
  • Removed complicated installations steps.
  • Now Compatible with Onepress, totally new function names.

0.5

  • Enabled synchronisation

0.4.6

  • Bugfix : Blank page on admin area fix

0.4.4

  • Bugfix : Created a duplicata of wordpress user on every login
  • Bugfix : Cannot automatically create users

0.4.2

  • Bugfix : Url in options panel

0.4.1

  • Bugfix : Url to options panel

0.4

  • The login works now if the user exists in the two databases with the same password
  • New installation script
  • New Presentation of the options page

0.3

  • Bugfix : Corrected a bug wich accepted all passwords

0.2

  • Login working from wordpress
  • Options page finished

0.1

  • New options page
  • Fork of the onepress framework. dropping all framework dependencies