Hello all, I have ran a couple XOOPS sites, and I will say that I really like xoops. So I am planning on changing another one of my sites over to xoops, but it runs a mybb forum. I would rather not change forums as I would lose a ton of usful posts, and make everyone re-register, along with try to learn a whole different forum. So I was wondering if theres any way to integrate the login. I seen some posts how to get it to show in xoops, so that shouldn't be a problem, just the login. I don't want to disable the XOOPS login, but I would rather not have 2 seperate logins.

Thanks in advance for any help

BTW the version of XOOPS I am using now is 2.2.3 but if someone knows a module or something that only works with 2.0.x or something I could probly use that, as I really haven't started making this site yet, Im just tryin to get everything ready before hand.

Soo.. no one knows of any way to do this?

Bare with me on this story...


sometime in 2004 i change from a phpnuke user to a XOOPS user. and for this i knew i would have problems. with changing my members, content, forums, ect. over to xoops.
so i made a copy of the sql db, i used this db to find out what the changes needed to be.
with shock i found that with a small amount of searching i found a small site that has a modified version of phpbb2 that worked in xoops. ( knowing that phpnuke uses phpbb2 for the forums ) this small site was bbpixel
to my suprise i found the missing link to make the merg from phpnuke to xoops.
it was a timely ordeal, but it was worth it.


what im saying is.

if you find waht you realy want, theres always a way.

you can take the mybb and have it changed to phpbb then have it changed to newbb, newbb2, x-ipb-223, x-phpbb.
but for things like this you must remember, you do it at your own risk, and alway back up you files.

So your saying I should switch forums to either phpbb or newbb2? Cuz I know I could transfer everything from one to another. It just to me doesn't seem worth it. Mybb from what I have experience is a far better forum then anything else I have seen, outside of maybe vbulliton, but theres no way I am gonna pay that much just for a forum..

I know joomla had a fairly simple module that would integrate joomla and vbulliton, it was a nice idea, still not for mybb though, lol. I was thinking though it would probly work simular for xoops. I know the login structure is probly totally different. But basically what it did is once someone created an account, logged in or out on joomla, it sent another query to the forum doing the same thing. There wasn't any thing to do the same in the forum, but that would be alright with me. I just don't know enough about php or MySQL querys to do this. But it would really be an awesome contribution cuz it would allow anyone to integrate any forum quite simply. All you would have to do is modify the querys to the forum to match whatever the forum is already set to do.

I looked for a long while for a module like this with xoops, but havent found it. I guess now this is kind of more a module request I guess. The idea to me seems simple enough, I just don't have any idea how to go about querying a MySQL database. I have just started to teach myself a little php.

Sorry for this long post, but if a decent coder would see this, I don't think it would take them too much to make something like this.

Alright. Since no one knows of any way.. Does anyone know what files i would have to modify to just make the XOOPS login read from the mybb tables? cuz looking at the table structure of both, they are very simular. Well kind of, every table is different, other then the users table, and the only difference in the user table, is the fields, like uname is username and pass is password, so I think that if you could just make XOOPS read from them fields instead of the default ones.. you could just install them on top of each other, and if they both read the same table, then they would work individually and together.

You could do a search and replace for 'uname' and 'username'.

Obviously you would need to do a little more than that, but you can see how it would be done.

Hope I've helped

You could do a search and replace for 'uname' and 'username'.

Obviously you would need to do a little more than that, but you can see how it would be done.

Hope I've helped