CMS Made Simple Forums

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.

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.

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

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___