PunBB / ProtectedPages

[sjg]

I've just built a preliminary module to integrate a PunBB forum (http://www.punbb.org) into a CMSMS site.

It uses PunBB for the forums, obviously, but I also integrated the PunBB user and group database to provide for user-side access control over all the content in the CMS. By placing a tag in a page template, it comes under access control. In the CMS admin area, you can assign access rights to the PunBB groups on a page-by-page basis.

It's a little crufty, and will need further development, but I just wanted to let the community know.

You can download it from the Wiki.

[sjg]

Just an update on this ...

There have been two "Critical Security Updates" released for PunBB this morning. Since my module makes its own modifications to PunBB, I will need to merge these fixes.

I'll get that done this weekend. I apologize for the delay.

[calguy1000]

is there any example site showing punbb integration I can take a look at?

[sjg]

Hm. I don't have it deployed anywhere public. I did an intranet site for a client that uses it.

Frankly, I'm not particularly proud of this module. It's a hack, in the sense that it doesn't integrate a lot of code that could be integrated, thus resulting in a performance hit.

I think once we have the new UserID core module, I can attack this again and see if I can make it better. Alternatively, someone can just write a forum using the framework

___Samuel___