Configuring Zen To Work With Phpbb

**Ripper** · 10 Apr 2006, 02:21 AM

I keep getting "illegal access" on a blank white page.
If I remove this:

Code:

if &#40;&#33;defined&#40;&#39;IS_ADMIN_FLAG&#39;&#41;&#41; {
 die&#40;&#39;Illegal Access&#39;&#41;;
}

I get:
Fatal error: Class phpbb: Cannot inherit from undefined class base in /home/XXXXX/public_html/store/includes/classes/class.phpBB.php on line 13

**Ripper** · 10 Apr 2006, 02:35 AM

OK, I figured that part out..... DUH!!

**Ripper** · 10 Apr 2006, 02:49 AM

OK,
I finally have a solution to this. It's so easy, I should kick myself. You need to edit the PHPBB config.php file to this and nothing else:

Code:

&#60;?php
&#036;dbms = &#39;mysql&#39;&#59;
&#036;dbhost  = &#39;localhost&#39;&#59;
&#036;dbname  = &#39;XXXXX&#39; &#59;
&#036;dbuser  = &#39;YYYYYY&#39;&#59;
&#036;dbpasswd = &#39;ZZZZZ&#39;&#59;
&#036;table_prefix = &#39;phpbb_&#39;&#59;
define &#40; &#39;PHPBB_INSTALLED&#39; , TRUE &#41;&#59;
?&#62;

Nothing before the first <? nothing after the last ?>

**Ripper** · 10 Apr 2006, 04:53 AM

Still doesn't add the user to PHPBB. Oh well.

**Tobias** · 20 Apr 2006, 12:34 AM

this is pretty annoying, why is phpBB integration not supported anymore?

**DrByte** · 20 Apr 2006, 02:35 AM

Originally posted by Tobias@Apr 19 2006, 06:34 PM
this is pretty annoying, why is phpBB integration not supported anymore?

phpBB is still supported in the code. Nothing has changed in its feature set / capabilities.

**Ripper** · 20 Apr 2006, 02:43 AM

But it's not working on forums where it did work before version 1.2.6d

**Tobias** · 20 Apr 2006, 11:27 AM

exactly

**Scott** · 20 Apr 2006, 11:47 AM

I hate to break up the party but I just installed the latest version of Zen Cart (1.3) with the latest version of phpBB (2.0.20) and it works fine.

I did however notice some issues if config files and the like were not in the same directory structure as the web server directory structure (in particular the Debian phpBB deb files didn't seem to work with the Zen Cart integration).

Current config:

Operating system Linux
Kernel version 2.6.9-34.ELsmp
Machine Type x86_64
Apache version 1.3.34 (Unix)
PHP version 5.1.2
MySQL version 4.1.18-standard

(hosted on A2hosting)

Now all I just have to do is disable the registration and editing of email/password by users in phpBB!

Cheers

Scott

**Tobias** · 21 Apr 2006, 08:53 PM

for the majority of people using the latest versions this is not the case.

i've freshly installed both zen 1.3.0 and phpBB 2.0.20 and it simply does not integrate anymore. the nickname field is not present in the registration form in the store and i am totally clueless as to the reason behind this. over the last 5 or more pages of comments in this thread people don't seem to be addressing this properly.

it simply doesn't work like it did and to my knowledge many people i know who also use zencart have simply had to remove their fairly popular forums in order to run on the latest version of zen.

this is becoming a fairly serious problem and there doesn't seem to be any clear-cut solution to it.