mike31mets
join:2004-10-30
Bronx, NY
|  Getting Wordpress and phpBB to work together
Using WordPress for blogging software one can create a blog entry and have readers comment below. Instead of having readers comment below I would like them to post in a forum. I would like to know if it is possible each time a blog entry is entered for a thread to be created within a forum. From my understanding, WordPress uses php and so does phpBB (who would have guessed? :P ). They're both free as well. So my question now is how could I set up a system where for each blog entry that gets created a thread in a forum automatically gets created as well. If I could just get pointed to the right direction I would greatly appreciate it. You see I've done websites before but in HTML. I've messed around with some forum software in the past but it's been a while. I appreciate any kind of help I can get for this. |
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mike31mets
join:2004-10-30
Bronx, NY | So I've been doing some searching of my own and I've found software called WP-United which apparently integrates WordPress into phpBB. Or at least that's what I gather. I'll be testing this out. |
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mike31mets
join:2004-10-30
Bronx, NY
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Just to update the situation. I've managed to install phpBB3 and WordPress. Both are pretty easy setups so long as you have the right database information from your host.
Then I setup WPU and it took a while but I also got it working. From the options it gave me during setup it seems like this will do just what I want. Just wanted to let others know.
When setting up WPU I recommend using a program like NotePad++ to edit the .php files required to install everything. Regular NotePad just won't cut it. |
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Jafo232
You Can't Spell Democrat Without Rat.
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join:2002-10-17
Boonville, NY
 ·RoadRunner Cable
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Let me recommend Metapad for a Notepad replacement, I have been using it for years:
»liquidninja.com/metapad/
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Custom PHP/Perl Development. Vbulletin And Wordpress Mods Too! |
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kidintraffic
join:2004-05-25
Grafton, OH | reply to mike31mets
I was just curious on how the setup of this was? Was it fairly straight forward? Run into any issues? |
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