I’ve also learned a lot from this discussions. Thanks Xeliber for starting the thread.
I am currently using IntegraMOD for my site which basically started as plain phpBB2. Then I shifted to Smartor’s EZPortal for a month until I find it to be too complicated to administer when adding modules. I also looked at PHPNuke and CPG Nuke and liked the easy administration but then had problems importing my phpBB forums and got hesitant when I learned of numerous security vulnerabilities.
I found IntegraMOD (integramod.com) from phpbbhacks.com and tried it. It’s basically phpBB2 with all the nice mods integrated already. A lot of improvements has been added when I started with version 1.2.3 and it’s now 1.3.2
I also tried Mambo and really liked the ease of use and themes available. Unfortunately, it’s the lack of integration with phpBB2 that stopped me from using it. Thanks to the post on phpBB integration, I’ll give it another try.
Can you talk more about this? Did Smartor’s make it harder for other phpBB2 MODs to work? Which ones?
I also tried Mambo and really liked the ease of use and themes available. Unfortunately, it’s the lack of integration with phpBB2 that stopped me from using it. Thanks to the post on phpBB integration, I’ll give it another try.
Does this mean you are going to give Mambo-phpBB integration another try, or something else?
Are you still using IntegraMOD today?
I mostly need to make sure I can get the M2F, aka Mail2Forum ( http://m2f.sourceforge.net --it mirrors a web forum and an email list) MOD to work with any phpBB systems that I use. The Mambo-phpBB combo does not look promising for this, and I’m hoping I can get Smartor’s to work with it, or maybe IntegraMOD per your (alien_bz’s) suggestion.
Hello guys… i am surprised to see this thread outburried again and growing again…
Anyway… i am Xeliber, only under different account since i can’t login to my Xeliber account right now.
I’ve read your posts that emerged here and here are some answers…
By forum to CMS integration i originally meant the CMS that would have forums inside so that when visitor registers it registered at the whole site INCLUDING forums. That’s probably the most basic integration i was thinking of, but also i wanted the ability to excerpt latest forum posts to homepage, the feature that i happily use now on my site. I am happy with xoops so far, and i’ve been using it for almost 2 months now.
For this article to forum integration it as you noticed does link to the certain forum which you can choose, but not to the thread itself. However this is just the feature of WF-Sections, the most popular articles module for xoops, there are some others. Originally you get only te news module with xoops, but xoops is totally modular so you can use whatever is existent. It’s what’s good about xoops and makes it very customizeable.
I’d say that there is a way you could link articles directly to the forum thread, i’ll try searching for it on xoops.org site since that’s what i’d like to do on libervis.com actually. And with that back and forth feature also (to have the link from the thread to articles)
Almost everything can be worked out in xoops i believe… As i said it’s very modular.
Xoops uses newbb forum integrated, but you can integrate phpbb also, there’s a mod. However, that may not be neccesery soon enough because there’s a newbb 2 in development that actually has even more features than phpbb and looks very promising. I still don’t use it since it’s in beta 4 stage right now, bu i will as soon as it get’s to the stable release and we get an update script. It’ll be a booming enhancement to libervis.com as well as the whole xoops CMS.
Newbb is actually based on phpbb 1 as far as i know, so it’a kind of a fork of it which may in it’s second incarnation bring even more forum power than phpbb… We’ll see… I am however excited about it. Can’t wait until it’s finished.
I have been following this thread, and I must say that I also like what you did with the Xoops application. Your site looks great. Do you know if Xoops integrates with the new Invision board (IPB 2.0)?
There actually is a IPB mod for xoops and i think there is the IPB 2 version also, but according to this it may no longer be free. It was free before, but now IPB is charging bbpixel (the maker of this module) for the distribution.
IPB is commercial module so it is expected that it will either be un-free or have some other licencing issues and that’s why i don’t really recommend it.
Another reason i don’t recommend is because i am a freedom software “zealot”.
However, there is a PHPBB mod and even better there is a new NEWBB 2 forum module which is xoops native that now has many great features and seamless integration (it’s the official XOOPS forum). I highly suggest that you try it as it’s unlike anything you probably seen before. You can see it at my site (libervis).
Whatever your choices are here is where you can download your XOOPS forum:
Hi
Now I work on large project:
programmers community portal with 5+ sites, full featured forum, knowlegbase (code-base), many editors of content.
It will be something like http://www.sitepoint.com/ (but more for programmers)
TYPO3 is “ready to run” solution for standart corporate site with flexible design (3-5 templates for pages), popups, a lot of pages/content_bloks, with news, search and so on.
Registration, forums and other comunity features are not ready to run, anyone must spend 10+ hours to make them work.
TYPO3 by nature is corporate site (not community portal).
TYPO3 builtin forum and CHC-forum extension is poor in features, so I must integrate some other forum to TYPO3.
As for banner management:TYPO3 has a number of good banner extensions, but phpAdsNew is better for large project.
As for search: TYPO3 has good lexical search, but if I will need to search on some other sites (may be on 10-20 sites) Mnogosearch is the best solution
Valery Romanchev
freelance web-developer
Moscow, Russia
romanchev(at)list(point)ru
Just wanted to say that after using Mambo for a while, I have been VERY happy with it and I definitely recommend it!
The administration interface is very easy to use and it has TONS of customization options (especially with he new version 4.5.1a).
I am currently switching from a static-page to a dynamic site (not finished yet) and so far, I have been able to make it look exactly the same, including the url path names to pages (I did need to use the SEF Advance component and some simple tweaking of a PHP file to get the URL pathnames identical to my old site).
I love that there are some many components (plug-ins) available for it and their forums at mamboserver.com have tons of info (I am a total newbie and I was able to do what I wanted with mambo).
There is also a Community Builder component that is very helpful for building an online community.
I just took a glance over Xaraya’s site and it looks awesome and the CMS they are developing seems to be great too, but as i’ve read it’s one of the post-nuke clones taking it’s direction. The other postnuke clone is XOOPS which is also modular, but taking a strictly community building portal system development direction which i needed.
I can’t see any forums in Xaraya and to tell the truth it seems a bit complicated no matter that they say it’s easy. I think it’s a XOOPS “counterpart” but on a different playground, more content oriented sites, while XOOPS is for community oriented portals.
Both seem to be great in their playgrounds, but for a community oriented CMS (which we were looking for in this thread), XOOPS still wins (in my eyes at least)
Yes, I agree, getting into Xaraya is not easy, but once you get a hang of things the limits are endless. BTW, there is a forum system with xaraya, XarBB if remember the name correctly
Well, it seems i just missed it. I found it now and it looks like another phpbb nuke or clone which doesn’t makes it necesserily a bad thing.
I however somehow better like the features of NEWBB2 from xoops as it now has much more features and is looking good (will be even better as it’s only in RC 2 as of yet).
I looked at subdreamer and actually like the software. I don’t like that they charge you more for the support contract than for the software itself. Especially as you have to buy a support contract from day one if you want the pluggins and skins. That looks a little greedy to me. No, thanks.
I was very impressed with Mambo. I played with it for the last 2 days and once you get a handle on how it works it looks really nice. 2 problems let me step away from it. I was using 3 different tools to present google Adsense ads and in 50% of all cases the ads were just blank. I tried different locations and everything I could find - on most content sites the ads just stayed blank. The browser did not show a script error but I assume the way how the pages are build that it did not execute the adsense code properly. There is also a fee-based Adsense module available. I have not purchased it as I was not sure if I really will use Mambo. My second problem was moving modules to different locations. It does not seem as easy and seamless as with other CMS systems (or whatever is considered a CMS).
even i read that , u cant play around with modules at ease. Does xoops has a phpBB forum module/integration. I am looking for some CMS with a powerful forum.
Typo3 seems to be very powerful but i think customization and learning it takes a lot of time.
However, i still recommend that you first give XOOPS native NEWBB 2 a try. It is now in pre-final version (final is actually already there just waiting to be released) which has some very nice features and can definitely compare to PHPBB and has an advantage of being seamlesly integrated with xoops without any sideeffects that might occur with phpbb port.
Taking this into consideration, i think XOOPS really is probably the best option for community oriented sites as it has all the ingredients. Some things like blog module may lack a bit, but it is coming to it as well. Besides that it has a great articles module (wf-sections, AMS, news etc.), very good modules for links, downloads (wf-downloads), FAQ (smart-faq) etc.
You can look at my site for some examples (sig).
The best thing about xoops is that it is highly modular. All the mentioned modules may or may not be included in standard xoops releases, but if they are or aren’t isn’t important at all as you can simply take whatever module is available and easily install it on site. The whole system is therefore actually just a light core + all the modules you choose. It’s greatest power is that modularity. XOOPS also stands for eXtendable Object Oriented Portal System.
customize the way content is presented?