Bulletin Board Integration [Support Thread]

[splot-bob]

Hi Guys,
Sorry to jump in here out of the blue but I have a question.
I realize that this plugin is designed to give Zen cart users a forum where they can discuss whatever they wish, is there any way I can go the opposite way?
I already have a phpBB forum and what I would like to do is give my 6K or so users the ability to log into the cart using their forum credentials.
I am using ZenCart 1.5.4 and phpBB 3.1.6.
Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Bob

[lat9]

Unfortunately, with the current Zen Cart "view" of what it takes to create an account ... an email address and password are necessary but insufficient. The customer would also need some kind of default address information for their ZC account to "be happy".

There's some discussion of reducing that account requirement in future (think v1.6.0) versions of Zen Cart.

[splot-bob]

Ok, thanks for that info, I've been waiting so long now a while more won't really matter!

[lat9]

I've submitted updates for each of the Bulletin-Board interfaces to the plugins area. In each case, the change is to modify any class constructor-function name to __construct in preparation for PHP 7.0 installations:

1) Bulletin Board Integration via Notifier Hooks: http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1597, v1.5.1
2) phpBB Integration via Notifier Hooks: http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1598, v1.3.1
3) SMF Integration via Notifier Hooks: http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1608, v1.1.1

[adb34]

After reading through this thread, you have mentioned that 'config.core.php' is not needed to be installed, however, with the download you offer different 'config.core.php' for the different versions of zencart.

I am currently using zencart 1.5.4 and when I have merged 'config.core.php' with the one I have I am getting error 500.

Should I be installing 'config.core.php' to v1.5.4?

Error log

[26-Feb-2016 12:58:17 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Class 'bb' not found in /homepages/20/****/htdocs/***/****/includes/autoload_func.php on line 79

[adb34]

After reading through this thread, you have mentioned that 'config.core.php' is not needed to be installed, however, with the download you offer different 'config.core.php' for the different versions of zencart.

I am currently using zencart 1.5.4 and when I have merged 'config.core.php' with the one I have I am getting error 500.

Should I be installing 'config.core.php' to v1.5.4?

Error log

My fault, I missed a bit of the merge. in 'config.core.php'

$autoLoadConfig[0][] = array autoType'=>'class', 'loadFile'=>'class.phpbb.php'); 

should read

$autoLoadConfig[0][] = array('autoType'=>'class', 'loadFile'=>'class.bb.php'); // Changed/lat9 (was class.phpbb.php) 

Sorry

[lat9]

Thanks for the update! I was trying to wrap my head around what went wrong.

A side-note: The base bb class will undergo some major surgery for Zen Cart v1.5.5 and will most likely be split off as a separate plugin for Zen Cart 1.5.5 and later. The phpBB and SMC interfaces should come through untouched through the magic of a defined API! Once ZC 1.5.5 is released, I'll start re-looking at the changes required.

[jadedgeek]

Does the Zen & phpBB bridge work with Zen Cart V1.5.5 & phpBB 3.1.10?

Have been trying to get this integration to work for days. There is such spotty documentation on the process its hard to follow.
Yesterday i reinstalled both zen cart and phpbb and used the zen_bb package.

Copied and overwrite all files from includes folder and also v1.54 folder.

As far as installation instructions that seems to be it just launch zen cart and register a member. With all the other forum post i keep seeing that you need to define the path to the phpbb install not seeing that in the install instructions. Does anyone know if there are step by step instructions for n00bs?

[lat9]

As mentioned above (see post #47), this plugin will not operate properly within the Zen Cart 1.5.5 codebase. It's on my list of things to do, but I have no current estimate regarding timeframe.

[bbailie]

As mentioned above (see post #47), this plugin will not operate properly within the Zen Cart 1.5.5 codebase. It's on my list of things to do, but I have no current estimate regarding timeframe.

I'm interested in hiring this if possible - ZC 1.5.5 and phpBB3 3.2.0
Please send me a note if you would be interested.
Cheers!