| FUDForum and integration / embedding [message #25940] |
Sun, 26 June 2005 15:09  |
valiant
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Hi,
I'm from the Gallery (G2) project and we've developed a way to integrate G2 with other applications (portals, CMS, forums, ...).
We're quite happy with our solution, but I'd still be curious how you integrated FUDForum in Egroupware.
- Do you share a single user / group database table or does each application have its own user / group tables? We went with the latter approach after experimenting with the former.
- How do you embed FUDForm visually in Egroupware? In G2, we can switch between outputting directly or returning HTML. When embedded, we return HTML and the other application can put that HTML is one of its templates. If this wasn't possible, one could also use output buffering, with the drawback of a larger memory footprint.
- How are users authorized in embedded FUDForum? Did you replace some session code, do you still use your own session cookies? In G2, we still use our own session cookies and the other application just tells us who's logged in at the moment.
- When FUDForum is embedded in Egroupware, can you still access it in standalone?
- Is FUDForum in Egroupware a fork or does it require a patch to work in Egroupware?
- Andy
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| Re: FUDForum and integration / embedding [message #25953 is a reply to message #25940] |
Mon, 27 June 2005 14:06  |
Ilia
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- Do you share a single user / group database table or does each application have its own user / group tables? We went with the latter approach after experimenting with the former.
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No, what the forum does is implement callbacks that eGW uses when any user related change is performed (Ex. Add/Delete/Update). These functions then work with the forum's own user's table.
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- How do you embed FUDForm visually in Egroupware? In G2, we can switch between outputting directly or returning HTML. When embedded, we return HTML and the other application can put that HTML is one of its templates. If this wasn't possible, one could also use output buffering, with the drawback of a larger memory footprint.
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The forum includes eGW headers/footers which embeds into eGW layout and CSS was modified to resemble eGW's appearance. That said the forum still uses it's own templating system.
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- How are users authorized in embedded FUDForum? Did you replace some session code, do you still use your own session cookies? In G2, we still use our own session cookies and the other application just tells us who's logged in at the moment.
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They are authorized initially based on eGW session id.
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- When FUDForum is embedded in Egroupware, can you still access it in standalone?
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No, it's pretty much a part of eGW.
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- Is FUDForum in Egroupware a fork or does it require a patch to work in Egroupware?
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It's a fork, which makes maintenance a bit of a nightmare. Recents version of FUDforum has API and single-logon script which is what I'd recommend using when integrating it with other apps.
FUDforum Core Developer
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| Re: FUDForum and integration / embedding [message #26038 is a reply to message #26036] |
Sat, 02 July 2005 16:13 |
Ilia
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The single login api script can be found inside the scripts/ directory or via the FUDforum's CVS.
I am of a very low opinion of CMS applications, for the most part they are bloated pieces of code designed with very little security in mind.
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| Re: FUDForum and integration / embedding [message #29620 is a reply to message #25940] |
Wed, 04 January 2006 09:48 |
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Surely you have thought about this before and it's not new, but I think forum software in general should approach to a kind of api/classes that allows easy integration with other CMS (of course, taking that there's a good internal design), without loss of funcionalities, and the extra work relies on the "connection classes". I think that if these "connection classes" just extended the "internal" ones in a way that transparently modify the session auth and user management (maybe another issues I'm not aware of at this time), it would simply rock, and the fudforum developers shouldn't have to worry about "the other", apart from having advantage in this matter. This would also allow easy upgrades (at least, in the same conditions than standalone installations). I think it's more difficult what is already done about having many different conversion scripts (varying depending on versions) than these classes. Maybe there's some work in progress about this, but if not, at least a "declaration" of what both parts need would be a good starting point, I think. Also (and it's why I replied here) this covers the embedding, and in this particular case because of this forum, in egw site manager, which doesn't exist (but old forum has).
I can be a tester of any suggestion, because I actually have fudforum embedded in an iframe, and want to get rid of it. 
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