Date: 09.25.2003

PNphpBB2 PN User Integration Add-On

This was created while theming a PostNuke .726 installation.

It has not been tested on earlier versions of PostNuke - hoewever it's a pretty standard installation, so try it if you wish on an older version of PN - feedback is encouraged.

Feel free to distribute and use this with any PNphpBB2 impelementation - but keep in mind that you are using this at your own risk

Feedback and questions? Contact us!

Thanks,
Bill O'Connor

PNphpBB2 PN User Integration Add-On ©09.25.2003 Everybody's Interactive

Description

This add-on will enable two controls in the PN User Control panel.

It basically will enable a user to quickly change/view their forum profile or check their forum-based mail from the PostNuke user interface - i.e. 'My Account' or user.php in the PostNuke root.

Instructions for overriding PostNuke messaging with PNphpBB2 messaging.

Install:

• Simply extract the contents of the PNphpBB_user.zip to a temporary file
• move the folder 'user' to the PNphpBB module directory in your PostNuke installation
  • should be something like: yoursite.com/modules/PNphpBB
• Installation complete!
• Browse to your user index page - yoursite.com/user.php - to test the integration.

Customize :

• By default both functionalities are implemented.

  Change text under user icons

  • To change the value of the text under the the mail functionality icon:
    • open /user/links/links.forummail.php in the user folder
    • change the value of the variable $mailSays
      • example: $mailSays="my icon text";
  • To change the value of the text under the the profile functionality icon:
    • open /links/links.forumprofile.php in the user folder
    • change the value of the variable $profileSays
      • example: $profileSays="my icon text";

  Turn off Mail Checking links

  • If you are not using the forum-based mail as your PostNuke Mail go to the user folder for the PNphpBB2 module in the PostNuke Installation.
    • should be something like: yoursite.com/modules/PNphpBB/user
  • remove the following following files from the '/modules/PNphpBB/user/' folder
    • case/case.forummail.php
    • links/links.forummail.php
    • modules/forummail.php
    • images/forummail.jpg

  Turn off Profile Editing links

  • If you are not using the forum-based mail as your PostNuke Mail go to the user folder for the PNphpBB2 module in the PostNuke Installation.
    • should be something like: yoursite.com/modules/PNphpBB/user
  • remove the following following files from the '/modules/PNphpBB/user/' folder
    • case/case.forumprofile.php
    • links/links.forumprofile.php
    • modules/forumprofile.php
    • images/forumprofile.jpg

Uninstall

• Simply remove the 'user' folder in the module or rename the 'user' folder to 'user_off'.
  • should be something like - yoursite.com/modules/PNphpBB/user
  • No DB tables or anything are created - so none need to be removed