Configuring Zen To Work With Phpbb

[Ripper]

Anyone know where to find this variable?

<?php if (($definedpage)) { ?>
 ##<tr>
 ## ##<td class="plainBox"><?php require($definedpage); ?></td>
 ##</tr>

Found on this page:
../cart/includes/templates/TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_phpBBindex_default.php

I did a search within the entire cart folder for $definedpage to see where it was being called from but I couldn't find any other reference to it anywhere but on that page.

[atsdotha]

can anyone tell me this?

my shop is located at http://sportsmansoutfitters.com/shop/

any query to www.sportsmansoutfitters.com or sportsmansoutfitters.com redirects to the above url. Whats the best directory to install PHPBB?

Should I install in http://sportsmansoutfitters.com/shop/forums

or if I make a new subdomain, forums.sportsmansoutfitters.com, will the re-direct not work properly?

[Ripper]

Actually, according to a few people (no documentation, but lots of people having the same problem) the PHPBB integration does not seem to be working with the latest update of Zen Cart and PHPBB. I'm not sure which side is causing the problem, however. I noticed it only when users started complaining, but I had altered my PHPBB registrations to route through the Zen Cart registration so my users had absolutely no way to register for PHPBB directly. If you're not concerned with new PHPBB users getting added through the Zen Cart registration process, then it shouldn't matter how you set up your forum as long as you add the correct paths in the configuration area. I'm not exactly sure how you'd add a subdomain to the relative path though, but then again it's been a long time since I used subdomains.

[Ripper]

Originally posted by atsdotha@Feb 15 2006, 04:36 PM
can anyone tell me this?

my shop is located at http://sportsmansoutfitters.com/shop/

any query to www.sportsmansoutfitters.com or sportsmansoutfitters.com redirects to the above url. Whats the best directory to install PHPBB?

Should I install in http://sportsmansoutfitters.com/shop/forums

or if I make a new subdomain, forums.sportsmansoutfitters.com, will the re-direct not work properly?

I misunderstood your question, sorry.
I just tried linking to http://sportsmansoutfitters.com/forums/ and I get a folder with no files. If you install your forum there, linking to it would open the forums, not your store. Also, to avoid any problems, since it seems the integration is not working at this time, just add a static link to your forums somewhere on the home page or add it to your navbars at the bottom or......

[atsdotha]

you got the folders page because I had messed up the install and had to take a mulligan...ugly ugly ugly ::cens ::cens ::cens

I'm still working on getting the two linked...having some trouble with configure.php, and right now is a heavy load on site with traffic, so I don't need to edit it right now and show that "potential security risk" to everyone and their brother.

thanks for offering some advice.

[Ripper]

Like I said, I don't think you are going to get them linked. I'm not sure what you mean about exposing a security risk though. It's just not going to work right now. If you install your forum in the folder you started installing into, it should work fine. If your redirect was going to redirect from that folder, it would do so whether or not there were files in it. I may be missing something here (it wouldn't be the first time that happened) but I don't see a security risk in doing that.

EDIT..
I just went to your forum. It's there now. All you need to do is add your links from the cart page, make whatever style changes you choose to make (or not) and you should be good to go. your cart will not add users to the forum at this time. I'm hoping someone with more time (and skills) figures this one out, becaue I likes it that way. For now,my PHPBB linkage is set to "disabled".

[atsdotha]

re: security risk - when you change the permissions on the configure.php, it displays a big red warning at the top...didn't want to do that while customers online.

[shut]

dir=/home/gadgetov/public_html/forum/
files_installed
phpbb_path=/home/gadgetov/public_html/forum/

CONFIG.PHP-->CONFIG.PHP--> $dbms = 'mysql'; 
CONFIG.PHP--> $dbhost = 'localhost'; 
CONFIG.PHP--> $dbname = 'gadgetov_phpb1'; 
CONFIG.PHP--> $dbuser = 'gadgetov_phpb1'; 
CONFIG.PHP--> $dbpasswd = ''; 
CONFIG.PHP--> $table_prefix = 'phpbb_'; 
CONFIG.PHP--> define ( 'PHPBB_INSTALLED' , TRUE ); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('DEBUG', 1); // Debugging off 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('DELETED', -1); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('ANONYMOUS', -1); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('USER', 0); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('ADMIN', 1); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('MOD', 2); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('USER_ACTIVATION_NONE', 0); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('USER_ACTIVATION_SELF', 1); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('USER_ACTIVATION_ADMIN', 2); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('USER_AVATAR_NONE', 0); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('USER_AVATAR_UPLOAD', 1); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('USER_AVATAR_REMOTE', 2); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('USER_AVATAR_GALLERY', 3); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('GROUP_OPEN', 0); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('GROUP_CLOSED', 1); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('GROUP_HIDDEN', 2); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('FORUM_UNLOCKED', 0); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('FORUM_LOCKED', 1); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('TOPIC_UNLOCKED', 0); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('TOPIC_LOCKED', 1); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('TOPIC_MOVED', 2); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('TOPIC_WATCH_NOTIFIED', 1); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('TOPIC_WATCH_UN_NOTIFIED', 0); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('POST_NORMAL', 0); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('POST_STICKY', 1); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('POST_ANNOUNCE', 2); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('POST_GLOBAL_ANNOUNCE', 3); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('BEGIN_TRANSACTION', 1); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('END_TRANSACTION', 2); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('GENERAL_MESSAGE', 200); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('GENERAL_ERROR', 202); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('CRITICAL_MESSAGE', 203); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('CRITICAL_ERROR', 204); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PRIVMSGS_READ_MAIL', 0); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PRIVMSGS_NEW_MAIL', 1); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PRIVMSGS_SENT_MAIL', 2); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PRIVMSGS_SAVED_IN_MAIL', 3); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PRIVMSGS_SAVED_OUT_MAIL', 4); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PRIVMSGS_UNREAD_MAIL', 5); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('POST_TOPIC_URL', 't'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('POST_CAT_URL', 'c'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('POST_FORUM_URL', 'f'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('POST_USERS_URL', 'u'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('POST_POST_URL', 'p'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('POST_GROUPS_URL', 'g'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('SESSION_METHOD_COOKIE', 100); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('SESSION_METHOD_GET', 101); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PAGE_INDEX', 0); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PAGE_LOGIN', -1); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PAGE_SEARCH', -2); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PAGE_REGISTER', -3); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PAGE_PROFILE', -4); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PAGE_VIEWONLINE', -6); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PAGE_VIEWMEMBERS', -7); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PAGE_FAQ', -8); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PAGE_POSTING', -9); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PAGE_PRIVMSGS', -10); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PAGE_GROUPCP', -11); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PAGE_TOPIC_OFFSET', 5000); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_LIST_ALL', 0); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_ALL', 0); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_REG', 1); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_ACL', 2); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_MOD', 3); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_ADMIN', 5); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_VIEW', 1); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_READ', 2); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_POST', 3); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_REPLY', 4); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_EDIT', 5); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_DELETE', 6); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_ANNOUNCE', 7); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_STICKY', 8); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_POLLCREATE', 9); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_VOTE', 10); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_ATTACH', 11); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('CONFIRM_TABLE', $table_prefix.'confirm'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('AUTH_ACCESS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'auth_access'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('BANLIST_TABLE', $table_prefix.'banlist'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('CATEGORIES_TABLE', $table_prefix.'categories'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('CONFIG_TABLE', $table_prefix.'config'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('DISALLOW_TABLE', $table_prefix.'disallow'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('FORUMS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'forums'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('GROUPS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'groups'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('POSTS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'posts'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('POSTS_TEXT_TABLE', $table_prefix.'posts_text'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PRIVMSGS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'privmsgs'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PRIVMSGS_TEXT_TABLE', $table_prefix.'privmsgs_text'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PRIVMSGS_IGNORE_TABLE', $table_prefix.'privmsgs_ignore'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('PRUNE_TABLE', $table_prefix.'forum_prune'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('RANKS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'ranks'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('SEARCH_TABLE', $table_prefix.'search_results'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('SEARCH_WORD_TABLE', $table_prefix.'search_wordlist'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('SEARCH_MATCH_TABLE', $table_prefix.'search_wordmatch'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('SESSIONS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'sessions'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('SESSIONS_KEYS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'sessions_keys'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('SMILIES_TABLE', $table_prefix.'smilies'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('THEMES_TABLE', $table_prefix.'themes'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('THEMES_NAME_TABLE', $table_prefix.'themes_name'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('TOPICS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'topics'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('TOPICS_WATCH_TABLE', $table_prefix.'topics_watch'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('USER_GROUP_TABLE', $table_prefix.'user_group'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('USERS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'users'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('WORDS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'words'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('VOTE_DESC_TABLE', $table_prefix.'vote_desc'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('VOTE_RESULTS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'vote_results'); 
CONSTANTS.PHP-->define('VOTE_USERS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'vote_voters'); 
prefix=
dbname=
dbuser=
dbhost=
dbpasswd=
users_table=users
user_group_table=user_group
groups_table=groups
config_table=config
link_enabled_admin_status=true
FAILURE: phpBB NOT activated

It's my Debug results I don't understand where I've get wrong but I can't conect phpBB to Zen 1.2.7.

phpBB and Zen were installed through Fantastico.

Double checked all configuration pathes

[Ripper]

Is anyone from the coding team reading this thread?

Is there something we're all doing wrong?

It seems once you update to the latest version, you lose interaction with PHPBB. I have one old cart system on a protected server that is still able to integrate with the latest version of PHPBB, the other carts that I have "live" no longer can after the latest cart update...

Any help, or even a "Yes, we changed the security and it killed the PHPBB compatibility" would be greatly appreciated. I had one website where all PHPBB registrations were funneled through the cart registration page. I had to manually add a bunch of users to the PHPBB database because they thought they were already members. I even asked about this on the PHPBB forum. After being told it wasn't a PHPBB question, someone finally answered me to tell me nothing in the code for PHPBB should be interfering with the cart at all due to how the username integration was done. It seems to be a Zen Cart issue.

For me, it's no longer a problem. I just made the cart and the forum work together on the sites without the registration crossover, it just requires more work for my visitors, having to register twice on the same site. I do not want to install a portal on any of these sites, even though that was a suggestion for the login issue. The last thing I need is yet another login that may or may not work with the others.

[wakasm]

I am a Zen Cart Newbie here...

but I also seem to be having issues gettting this to work. I'm not sure if I am doing it wrong of if Ripper is correct in that it's not working with the newest version of zen (which i am pretty sure i have).

Where or when does it ask you to make a forum name? Just curious?