[ic] IC and BBS

[Loy Ellen Gross]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Paul Jordan wrote:

> Has anyone every succesfully integrated a BBS system with
> Interchange. I don't want to reinvent the wheel, and I also don't
> want to bulk up userdb.

I haven't done this with IC, but I have successfully integrated phpBB
(a free MySQL and php-based BBS) with a ton of other software. In
almost all cases, I have used the phpBB user db as the main one and
added my other fields to it ... on occasion I have inserted a bit of
custom code into the other application to insert, update or delete
users into the phpBB database when the same thing is done ot the main
app (this works better in postgresql where you can rollback). On one
occasion, I remapped the table and field names in phpBB into the other
app's database. It worked all ways. 

While phpBB is simple, it's also simple :) Easy to customize ... you
should have no problem integrating in either direction. The key is to
get IC using a MySQL database for the user db, so you can remap
phpBB's field names to the appropriate ones on the IC db. Actually,
most of the BB apps I can think of are MySQL based, so you're probably
in the same boat with them also. If you're not using a MySQL-based
user.db for IC, I wouldn't know where to point you ... so I guess
that's your first concern.

Hope that helps.

  -- Loy

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