Is it possible to embed a forum?

[Essie]

I use Invision Board forum.  And I like to embed the forum into the CMS template.  Is that possible?  I read somewhere about {fetchurl url="http://domain.com/forum"} .  I tried but I got an error.  I also read something about needing to add {fetchurl} plugin.  Where and how can I download that one?

I am using latest CMS Made Simple Version0.10

Thanks

[Ted]

Check out the punbb module at http://www.cmsmodules.com

[mah]

I use the {embed} plugin to include forum pages within CMS. punBB wasn't really an option for me since my phpBB forum had been around for a few years and I dfinitely wasn't anxious to change. Using {embed} is ok.. not perfect but not terrible.

[Marcucs]

punBB wasn't an option for me either. Instead of using {embed} i styled phpBB to look as if it was embedded in CMS. Then I wrote a module to handle the authentication between the CMS frontend and phpBB. It's not that hard. It just depends on how much php you know...

[BlueRook]

Then I wrote a module to handle the authentication between the CMS frontend and phpBB. It's not that hard. It just depends on how much php you know...

will you share that?

I second that. Also, how are you doing the users and user tables? I played around a bit trying to modify some of the CMS MS classes to work with phpBB and it kind of worked but if you have a working method and would like to share I'm sure a lot of people would be interested.

[Marcus]

I was thinking of writing a tutorial, but with christmas and all I haven't had time.
Here is a thread in the phpbb forums where I briefly explain how I did.
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=351941

[Marcus]

Looking at my post at the phpBB forums I realized it dosen't explain how to use this in CMS MS at all..

I will write a tutorial. Or a module. When I find time. 

[Marcus]

ok. the tutorial is done. I've posted it in development discussion, since I hope someone will continue to work on this.

[Ron Hartendorp]

http://www.spikecity.net/index.php?page=forum
Implements YaBB 2.1 (Perl based forum) in CMS Made Simple 0.12 (I only changed the pi_iframe tag to auto reformat the iframe it loads the forum in to always be 100% of the forum length so it does not generate a second scrollbar)

[Dee]

Link to tutorial in developer's discussion: http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 676.0.html