Linking phpbb to zen cart

[aunrea]

I installed Zen Cart but I didn't have a forum during installation so I didn't set it up then. Now I have a phpbb forum and wish to link them up. I enabled the phpbb linkage in the admin and I added the forum path to the configuration file:

  define('DIR_WS_PHPBB', '/home/awatts/public_html/forum/');

// * DIR_FS_* = Filesystem directories (local/physical)
  //the following path is a COMPLETE path to your Zen Cart files. eg: /var/www/vhost/accountname/public_html/store/
  define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/awatts/public_html/store/');

After I have all this set up it doesn't ask for a forum username or create a new forum account when a new customer registers. Is there a step I missed?

[aunrea]

It's working now.

[NamSingh]

I have the same thing wrong, can you tell me and others how you solved it please. thanks.

[dogmatic69]

i hate it when people are selfish in not sharing their results. i also wanna know how.

[aunrea]

The reason I didn't post what I did was because I didn't do anything more than what I did in the first post. The next time I went to my site it started working. I may have clear my cache or cookies so maybe it was that that made it work suddenly.

[dogmatic69]

hi,

was not trying to dis you or anything, thanks for the reply. there are just so many people that figure things out and never return to help the others.

still dont have this dam phpbb working thou.

[dogmatic69]

I got it. after doing everything that i have read here it still did not work so i deleted everything and started fresh. still did not work and was contemplating throwing the pc out the window. been fiddling with the configure.php in /includes and tried everything. the i though maybe it is case sensitive... YIPPY!!!! it works

don't know if i am the only one that missed this but i am sure if i tried this earlier it would of saved me deleting all my hard work and doing it again for nothing.

So everybody trying to link zen and phpbb check the caps and small letters it make a big difference.

PS: there are so many forums with people asking about this and i don't know which is the best one to post this answer in so if the mods could let me know or pass the info on to help people. thanks

[thomasw98]

I got it. after doing everything that i have read here it still did not work so i deleted everything and started fresh. still did not work and was contemplating throwing the pc out the window. been fiddling with the configure.php in /includes and tried everything. the i though maybe it is case sensitive... YIPPY!!!! it works

What "i" is case sensitive? I have no idea what you are talking about, but curious to know since I can not get it to work.

[thomasw98]

I got it to work now. For the record:

I changed configure.php content from:

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/');

to:
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/usr/home/ug17p1/htdocs/shop/');

I also noticed I was having trouble uploading the newly adjusted configure.php file since the original version on the server was CHMODed "444" (for security reasons). So I first had to change the CHMOD for the server version to "744", THEN I uploaded the modified version, and there was no problem at all. (Make sure to change the CHMOD back to 444 after you have uploaded the modified version of the file)

Now the Information box on my front page magically has a "forum" link in it. Pluse the new user registration page in ZC has an additional field for entering a "Forum Nick Name" to be used in the forum.