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    Posted by rickdier posts: 38

    I'm already using IPB forums to a high level of satisfaction, but thinking on integrating Tikiwiki with it. How do I use single sign on for tikiwiki, IPB forums and other applications not included with
    tiki. (job board, dating, ads,...)?

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    Posted by Pat VDV posts: 224 Ireland

    I don't think you can very easily accomplish this with some serious coding. As long as Tiki has no API with authentication functions you will have to read and write user information from the Tiki database yourself. This is classic problem that many portal softwares have been faced with when there was a need to be integrated with external applications. But why don't you consider switching from the IPB forums to Tiki forums?

    Regards,

    Pat.

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    Posted by rickdier posts: 38

    1- Forums is currently the essence of my site and I wouldn't switch that early to TW forums since I may miss features.
    2- Most importantly, I still testing TW & is concern about its upgrade process & support issues

    3- the Job board, ads, dating issue would still remain open even if I switch to TW forum.

    I'm still waiting for documentation, active user community, add-on modules(job, ads, dating,..) and forum converter.
    Am I missing something or right?

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    Posted by Pat VDV posts: 224 Ireland

    Hi Rick,

    I doubt very much that we will see any forum convertor tools soon for Tiki unless someone takes this up of course. I understand your concerns as I have a pretty large vbulletin forum and would not be able to switch to Tiki forums now. In the current state the forums are in, I think it's fair to say that they worth considering if you are starting out from scratch.

    As to documentation: well you are looking at it. Tikiwiki is all about documentation and community work. Alternatively look at the sourceforge forums and/or mailing lists.

    Regards,

    Pat.

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    Posted by rickdier posts: 38

    this link (http://mods.ibplanet.com/db/?mod=1755) addresses the php-nuke/invision forums integration. How similar is php-nuke to tikiwiki and how easy would it be to modify this tool to integrate tikiwiki to invision forums?
    The question may be stupid, but I'd better ask

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    Posted by Pat VDV posts: 224 Ireland

    I am not a Tiki export neither very knowledgeable about the Nuke softwares. However, I would say that Tiki is very different both in concepts and architecture. One important factor would be to see how different the data models of both application are.

    Regards,

    Pat.

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    Posted by Chris Ward posts: 34

    I noticed that tiki is using the pear::DB module for database access. I am not able to check right now what tiki used for authentication, it could be a pear module. What this means is that you could probably call the pear modules yourself, as the use of the classes is fairly standard, due to pear. You would need to find out the how IBP (don't know anything about it) is doing it's signon/db though, as you are probably wanting to use their user list, right?

    Another thought. Does IPB use a cookie to store users? Just wondering if you could use that cookie info to pass the signon info to tiki.

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    Posted by rickdier posts: 38

    Working with classes is not my field at all & I don't want to mess up.
    In fact, IPB uses cookies & I would be glad to know how to use them to pass the signon info to tiki.

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    Posted by rickdier posts: 38

    Although I cannot create the solution, I'm still trying to find the tools to make it easier to craft. How helpul would this SDK be?

    See below the reponse I got from a IPB expert coder

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    QUOTE (rickdier @ Oct 3 2003, 11:06 PM)
    Hey Cow, how can a php dummy like me use the sdk to to integrate with tikiwiki for:
    1- single logon
    2- user profile replication

    I've been looking for this solution for months. Athough, they did some mod for E107 & PHP-Nuke, no one has dare to address tikiwiki. It seems you are the one tackling complicated matter, any help?

    Hey,

    Sorry I haven't been able to reply to support questions quite recently

    I've not tried TikiWiki, so I wouldn't be able to help. However, you should be able to work out how to make it member only using the SDK, some examples will make pages user only, and you can use get_info() or get_advinfo() when retrieving member and profile info.

    Sorry I couldn't be more helpful

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