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« Reply #105 on: January 03, 2003, 06:52:34 PM »
There is no easy way, sorry. Only with a lot of editing...

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« Reply #106 on: January 03, 2003, 08:12:17 PM »
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Jimmie's Chicken Shack is a rock band from Annapolis, Maryland, USA.  Their last album Bring Your Own Stereo was released in Germany also and they did a very short tour their in 2000.

I'm going to attempt the integration right now.
The board is here
http://www.jimmieschickenshack.net/phpBB2

The gallery is here
http://www.jimmieschickenshack.net/4images



So, did the Chicken Shack have success ?????????????????????

Bitte, Jan, Is this phpBB integration mod stable now?     ..und..

Bitte, is there a URL to an active use of this phpBB/4images integration mod ??????[/b]

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« Reply #107 on: January 03, 2003, 08:13:05 PM »
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Jimmie's Chicken Shack is a rock band from Annapolis, Maryland, USA.  Their last album Bring Your Own Stereo was released in Germany also and they did a very short tour their in 2000.

I'm going to attempt the integration right now.
The board is here
http://www.jimmieschickenshack.net/phpBB2

The gallery is here
http://www.jimmieschickenshack.net/4images



So, did the Chicken Shack have success ?????????????????????

Bitte, Jan, Is this phpBB integration mod stable now?     ..und..

Is there a URL to an active use of this phpBB/4images integration mod ??????

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« Reply #108 on: January 03, 2003, 08:48:20 PM »
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You'll probably need another script that adds the users in the current 4images table to the phpbb_users table.  Then you can run the integration script.  Luckily I'm just getting my 4images database populated so i only have one user - the administrator which is the same as the one in phpBB.

I hope this works, I'll try it out later this weekend

what about just changing the 4images login to use the phpBB username ?

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« Reply #109 on: January 04, 2003, 09:37:46 AM »
No, not without a lot of editing...

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« Reply #110 on: January 04, 2003, 04:45:59 PM »
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No, not without a lot of editing...

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Bitte, how stable is the current mod for 4images integration with phpBB?

Maybe I'll play around with the variable assignments.  I already have 4images and phpBB in the same db, so perhaps I can change the 4images login username/pw lookup to the phpBB username/pw variable.

This 4images looks very nice so far !!  ?gemutlich?  hahahaha


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« Reply #111 on: January 04, 2003, 05:23:00 PM »
As far as i know, its stable.

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P.S.: Can you please use the normal black font color in your postings. I have to read a lot of postings each day and it hurts my eyes..
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« Reply #112 on: January 04, 2003, 08:27:00 PM »
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As far as i know, its stable.

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Okay, that was a fun way to spend a Saturday AM.   Smooth enough.

..er.. So now I have 4images and phpBB lined up in a database and can log in with the same username/pw to both of them.

Now - and this may seem ein dummkopf question :D  -  but what's the advantage of this particular "integration" format?  A user still needs to log in to both 4images and phpBB.    

... or am I missing something here? :-P  

Perhaps I am thinking more of "embedding" 4images into phpBB (or vice-versa the other way around :-)   Is this possible moglich ?

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« Reply #113 on: January 05, 2003, 11:11:37 AM »
The advantage is that you don't have to register twice. Normally you should keep logged in but you need cookies enabled.

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« Reply #114 on: January 05, 2003, 10:47:23 PM »
Ok, I have a question.

I have too many members and images in my galleries too lose, but still I would like to integrate with the forum. I think this is a question many people have.

Now I think about manually copying all members from the user table of 4images to the user table of the forum. Is this possible and is there anything I should keep in mind.

I don't know what this integration is going to do, so which user table is used after the integration, or are they both used, what about table prefixes?

Could anybody shine a little light as I would like to do the integration, even if it means that I have to convert the tables by hand, just tell me how.

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« Reply #115 on: January 06, 2003, 10:05:38 AM »
Did you have already a running phpBB forum with registered members?

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« Reply #116 on: January 06, 2003, 10:14:07 AM »
Hi Jan,

yes, I already have a Forum with member, but that does not matter. I am taking a close look at both tables and have the following in mind.
I don't care about losing the users of the forum as most users of the forum are also member of the galleries, just can't lose the images.

So what is it I plan on doing:

1. I add all missing collums to the users table of 4images so that the table structure is the same as the one of the forum.
2. I change all user levels of the members to 0 instead of 2, otherwise all members would become moderator  :wink:
3. I dumb the users table of the forum and rename the users table of 4images to the the old name of the forum users table.

I think that this should do the job, but I'm not certain. Maybe I overlook something, but I will give it a try. I plan on doing this whole move somewhere next week, this week I will make all preperations like informing all members about it.

So right now my question is basicly, is the idea I described above possible?

I also saw that you changed the sessions table to the sessions table of the forum. I don't know anything about sessions so is it necasary to copy the sessions table as well?

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« Reply #117 on: January 06, 2003, 10:27:01 AM »
This should work. You don't have to copy the sessions table.

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« Reply #118 on: January 07, 2003, 01:27:13 PM »
i've used the integration for a while already but noticed something peculiar

It seems that the sessions table likes to overflow and is filled to the max.  Even using the phpbb session cleanup mod only fixes the problem temporarily... is this the fault of 4images because I've yet to encounter the session overflow problem with my other phpbb installations.

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« Reply #119 on: January 07, 2003, 02:11:21 PM »
Normally, all session should be removed automatically if they are expired (see "Session length [ seconds ]" in your phpBB settings).

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