Bulletin Board Integration [Support Thread]

I've submitted v1.4.0 of the base bulletin-board notifier class (http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1597) to the Plugins for review. The installation instructions are now Zen Cart version-specific.

Please note that this updated version is required for the phpBB (http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1598) and SMF (http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1608) plugins to operate properly in a Zen Cart v1.5.2 or v1.5.3 environment.

v1.4.0 is now available for download.

v1.5.0 is now available from the Plugins area. The update provides downwardly-compatible changes required for Zen Cart v1.5.4.

Hi

Firstly...Thanks for your efforts and sharing this with us. It's much appreciated.

ZenCart v 1.5.4
phpBB 3.1.3

Ok... I have both base and this plugin installed.
I can create a new ZenCart user and the forum board index increments the number of members, and shows "Our newest member" to be the new nick name I created, however...a user account is not created at all.

The config table shows the newest_user_id to be the next available, which would be correct, but there is no such user.

Any ideas what may be wrong?

Chris

No clue; I'll need to resurrect my phpBB testbed to do any kind of verification.

Thanks...

I've got the site sat on a VPS and also on a test Xampp environment. Both behave in the exact same way!

No errors in the server logs to see. I'm not too sure about debugging Zencart. Is it worth looking there?

No, my guess is that the account-creation process within phpBB has changed since I originally wrote the ZC-phpBB linkage.

Ah ok...

I could use an older version of phpbb... which one was last known to work?

Do you know if the SMF integration is good?

Cheers
Chris

Westoner:

Ah ok...

I could use an older version of phpbb... which one was last known to work?

Do you know if the SMF integration is good?

Cheers
Chris
When I wrote the plugin in early 2013, some variant of phpBB 2.x.x was the "most recent".

I have not verified the SMF integration against later versions; perhaps some users of the SMF version of the plugin could chime in.

Apologies for keeping you "on hold", but paying clients come first.

How about if I offer to pay?

PM sent.

I've identified the issue; there are a couple of database fields that were removed from the users table in the transition from phpBB 3.0.x to 3.1.x. I'll post an update real-soon-now!

v1.3.0 of the phpBB interface has been submitted to the plugins area for approval. This version properly creates phpBB user accounts for phpBB versions 3.0.11-3.0.14 and 3.1.1-3.1.4.

lat9:

v1.3.0 of the phpBB interface has been submitted to the plugins area for approval. This version properly creates phpBB user accounts for phpBB versions 3.0.11-3.0.14 and 3.1.1-3.1.4.
Now available for download from the Zen Cart Plugins! Thanks to *Westoner *for notifying me of the issue.

This is perfect for something I have been wanting to implement.

Just one question .... what happens with the existing members in Zen-Cart? Does the install transfer all these to phpBB please?

The plugin does not support creating bulletin-board accounts for existing members.

lat9:

The plugin does not support creating bulletin-board accounts for existing members.

Ok ... thank you ... so the best way is just to get existing members to change their password in Zen-Cart then?

Oh ... just another thought. If existing members create a phpBB forum account using exactly the same details as in ZC ... would any changes to ZC in the future find that phpBB account and link them?

I'll need to review that procedure to see, but I think that the nickname -- if not entered during account-creation -- cannot be entered after-the-fact.

lat9:

I'll need to review that procedure to see, but I think that the nickname -- if not entered during account-creation -- cannot be entered after-the-fact.

Ah right. I haven't got round to doing the installs yet so I'm assuming the add-on provides option for a phpBB Nickname then? We're a small group at the moment so if that is the case it is not a problem for admins to contact members and add a Nickname at our end ... will go ahead with phpBB install and have a play and let you know what we find.

Thanks again