{"id":73,"date":"2004-08-14T23:38:23","date_gmt":"2004-08-14T21:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchfragfactory.net\/ozh\/archives\/2004\/08\/14\/integration-of-phpbb2-into-a-site\/"},"modified":"2007-04-24T21:25:39","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T19:25:39","slug":"integration-of-phpbb2-into-a-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/integration-of-phpbb2-into-a-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Integration of phpBB2 into a site"},"content":{"rendered":"

I run a community site that uses a phpBB2 forum, and I was wondering how to fetch informations from the forum into other pages (without messing with phpBB2 code, which is something I don't want to even hear about)
\nHere are some tips that may help you make your existing pages and phpBB2 communicate.
\n<\/p>\n

phpBB Fetch All<\/h2>\n

phpBB Fetch All<\/a> : This project is a collection of functions you can easily use on any pages. Simple installation (5 or 6 pages in a forum sub-directory) and you have ready-to-use functions about posts (last posts, last topics, ongoing thread…), users (top posters, info about a random user…), polls and a lot of things. The doc pages<\/a> are clear and list every function available.<\/p>\n

This package contains almost everything I needed… Almost only, since there is no function to dectect informations from a login cookie, if any. It retrieves infos from the forum, but not from a user currently viewing a page.<\/p>\n

Reading phpBB2's cookie<\/h2>\n

Hopefully, reading the login cookie is not difficult, I was real glad after a short googlage to realize how easy it was :) The following quick example just displays if the user has an ongoing session or cookie in your forums, you'll need to edit only line 5.<\/p>\n

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  1. <?php<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  2. \/\/ phpBB includes<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  3. define<\/span>(<\/span>'IN_PHPBB'<\/span>,<\/span> true<\/span>)<\/span>;<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  4. \/\/ next one is the physical path to your forums root : CUSTOMIZE<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  5. $phpbb_root_path<\/span> =<\/span> '\/home\/user\/you\/forums\/'<\/span>;<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  6. include<\/span>(<\/span>$phpbb_root_path<\/span> .<\/span> 'extension.inc'<\/span>)<\/span>;<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  7. include<\/span>(<\/span>$phpbb_root_path<\/span> .<\/span> 'common.'<\/span>.<\/span>$phpEx<\/span>)<\/span>;<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  8. \/\/ Start session<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  9. $userdata<\/span> =<\/span> session_pagestart(<\/span>$user_ip<\/span>,<\/span> PAGE_INDEX)<\/span>;<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  10. init_userprefs(<\/span>$userdata<\/span>)<\/span>;<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  11. \/\/ From now on, we have user infos<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  12. if<\/span> (<\/span>$userdata<\/span>&<\/span>#91;'session_logged_in'&#93;) {<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  13.        echo<\/span> "You are : "<\/span>.<\/span>$userdata<\/span>&<\/span>#91;'username'&#93; ." (".$userdata&#91;'user_email'&#93;.")<br>\\n";<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  14.        echo<\/span> "Userid : "<\/span>.<\/span>$userdata<\/span>[<\/span>'user_id'<\/span>]<\/span>.<\/span>"<br>\\n<\/span>"<\/span>;<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  15. }<\/span> else<\/span> {<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  16.         echo<\/span> "Not logged !"<\/span>;<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  17. }<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  18. ?><\/span><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

    The informations fetched can be any $userdata[thing<\/strong>]<\/em> where thing<\/em> is a field from phpbb2_users <\/em>table : user_id, username, user_regdate, user_password, user_email, etc …<\/p>\n

    You can now use this informations into your existing site, for example auto-fill the comments form fields with username, user_url and user_email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Tips to fetch informations from a phpBB2 forum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2,10,70,245],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-code","tag-php","tag-phpbb2","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}