New update 18. December 2006

Many advanced features - and SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITY BUILDER

Indeed the best bridge we've seen in Joomla world having so many advanced features. We are happy to bring this bridge to the Joomla community.

JoomPhpBB bridge is the complete solution to connect Joomla to phpBB forum. It provides almost full synchronization between the Joomla and forum profiles with Community builder support without any changes of core files.

You can use the forum in a usual way or wrap it in the Joomla as a component and browse the forum without reloading of a page.

Features:
* No changes of Joomla's and phpBB's core files required - easy to install and upgrade the system
* Management of forum configuration and forum users in Joomla admin panel
* Transferring users between Joomla and phpBB with preserving their profile data including CB avatars
* Full support of Community Builder (additional CB plugin installation required), ability to assign CB profile fields to the forum ones,synchronizing of avatars, Forum tab in the CB profile
* Wrapping the forum in Joomla as a component and browsing the forum without the reloading of a page (a little (~1 minute) phpBB template changes required) Various advanced synchronization options
* Log user in phpBB when logged in Joomla
* Log out user in phpBB when logged out in Joomla
* Auto register Joomla user in forum when log in Joomla
* Change phpBB profile when changing in Joomla
* Change phpBB password when lost in Joomla
* Check phpBB for duplicate users before Joomla registration
* Open new private messages pop-up window when log in Joomla
* Log user in Joomla when log in phpBB
* Log out user in Joomla when log out in phpBB
* Auto register phpBB user in Joomla when logged in phpBB
* Change Joomla profile when changing in phpBB (except linked to off-site avatars of phpBB)

Tested on Joomla 1.0.11 + phpBB 2.0.21
Tested on Joomla 1.0.8 + phpBB 2.0.18

Read more at www.elearningforce.biz

Editor's Note:

* This extension requires registration to download.