Phpbb mchat install guide

AXEW3 is really a great developer and cares that people using this plugin are getting the most from it! Thank you for all your help! If you don't understand it go to the forum axew3 has setup and read and learn. Integrating WordPress and phpB is not an easy task! I am redirecting all my users to register and change their password in WordPress. I am also using a memberships plugin that handles multiple paid memberships in WordPress including add-ons and upselling, etc which is why I needed to force all the registration tasks to WordPress.

With WP w3all phpBB plugin it all works fine. Thank you for all your time and effort to solve a very complex and important challenge!! Great plugin with amazing support of the developer! Thanks a lot! Best Regards, good work for your next jobs. I can't fathom that the author has made such a great plugin.

He seems to have thought about everything. Yes, the English instructions are a bit hard to read. I can't believe this is free. Oh my god, I'm actually fangirling right now!! I love it. Yeah, it is a little bit hard to set it correctly. But if you follow instructions you can do it. I did :. But now it is just an amazing solution.

Love you guys! To update if you want, rebuild page-forum on plugin admin or substitute the one into your active template folder page-forum orWhatEverYouNamedIt. Note: open plugin admin page to automatically activate the new config that now work without including a phpBB config.

Fix: history. Now cookie setting has been definitively resolved. Please update to overwrite the unique file class. Make in this way the integration without linking users, also suitable for phpBB versions 3. As above, 1. If user is banned by username in phpBB, he will be logged out immediately, even without visiting phpBB, when return to visit WP side with a valid cookie. But if a ban is issued by IP or email in phpBB and the user in the while return back to site visiting WP pages with valid cookie credentials, will result logged in until he not visit phpBB so phpBB will reset his cookie and will be logged out.

The code on procedure as been updated and page-forum. Please update as soon. More important fixes and code cleanup.

More minor fixes. Improve and fix cookie setting. But if you like to update to the new version, the page-forum. Still not add all profile fields update for Buddypress, it will be done hope on 1. A documentation help for common problems about will be done asap if never necessary for someone. Important: Fix cookie domain fail on domains suffix like.

Now cookies are properly configured before to be set, for any possible suffix on domain or subdomain. While phpBB was undoubtedly popular, updates were infrequent and its huge legacy base made it hard to push out new versions. Its team of core developers worked inefficiently together, in part because the tools for doing so were relatively primitive at the time.

This allowed many other forum solutions to emerge to fill the feature gap while the phpBB group lumbered awkwardly forward into the future. I first installed phpBB 2. I have developed modifications and extensions, as well as generating good income from helping users upgrade and migrate their forums. There is a lot more to this topic that I may delve into in future posts. But this post at least gives you a heads up. If you need more agility from your forum solution, you might have to look elsewhere.

However, any other solution you pick may not hang around. I kept busy with phpBB work in August but fortunately not too busy. It was all just right for a change.

The big project was a Amazon Web Services AWS rehosting project that consumed four days after about two months of erratic testing and prototyping. I wrote about the project as it relates to AWS here.

However, there were other details of wrapping up this project unrelated to AWS:. Occasionally I do something new. Cloud services provide scalable services.

Also, you pay for what you use. I did not do this rehosting by myself. The forum is very large with 2. In addition to rehosting the forum, I had to upgrade the client at the same time to the newest version of phpBB and move his WordPress site. This project literally took months to complete, although I was not working on it all the time.

The learning curve is steep and the tools available to you are miniscule. I suspect that the wrong AMI was used or that using a better one would have prevented a lot of problems. In any event, the move to AWS turned out to be tricky, time consuming and a large hassle. For my client, it was an expensive endeavor. It turned out that all this work turned into my largest bill ever. In that sense it was good, although I would have been happier if it had spent a lot less time and a lot less of his money.

Now that my client is on AWS though, as long as it is tuned properly there will be some big advantages. Hosting may cost less in the long run, and the service should be more predictable and scalable. If you take up a project like this, you will definitely need someone who has set up AWS EC2 instances successfully and will work through all these issues with you. Even so he could not do it alone. The migration took four days to complete, although the forum was functional in less than twenty four hours.

For very large forums that need scalability and high reliability, using a cloud service like AWS makes a lot of sense. However, a project like this should not be taken lightly. Most forum owners will probably be much more comfortable on a good shared host, or a good virtual or dedicated server. See this post on phpbb. Click on the Advanced permissions link. You can then select any permissions you want to grant. In this case, I granted the Can post stickies permission by changing it to Yes.

Since multiple forums should be show on the screen, do this for each forum in the category. See screenshot below, which shows only the permissions for the category. Clicking the Apply permissions button will make the permission stick for this forum, or do all then press the Apply all permissions button at the bottom.

Now Jane Doe has the necessary added permission, but it was done outside of the forum role. The kinds of administrators are based on the roles they are given. In the Add Users block, enter the usernames on separate lines that you want to make administrators. Use the Find a member link if needed, and press Submit when done. See the screenshot below.

Standard Admin. Has access to most administrative features but is not allowed to use server or system related tools. Full Admin. Has access to all administrative functions of this board. Not recommended. Forum Admin. Can access the forum management and forum permission settings. User and Groups Admin. Can manage groups and users: Able to change permissions, settings, manage bans, and manage ranks. The main role to worry about is the Full Admin role, because if you grant it, then you are giving the administrator virtually complete control of the board.

The administrator is not technically a founder but might as well be since they can do pretty much anything a founder can do too except make themselves a founder or create additional administrators.

If you want to make someone a founder, you first must already have founder privileges. In the Founder field select Yes and press Submit. Large and busy boards might find a need to assign people to the Forum Admin and User and Group Admin roles. These new administrators get into the Administration Control Panel the same way as you do: by selecting the link in the navigation bar or from the link that appears in the footer.

In addition to having global versus forum-specific moderators , phpBB allows you to place moderators into various roles. The permissions of the role determine how much power a moderator has. These moderators roles come out of the box:. Standard moderator. This type of moderator can use most moderating tools, but cannot ban users or change the post author. Simple moderator. This type of moderator can only use basic topic actions.

They cannot send warnings or use the moderation queue. Full moderator. This type of moderator can use all moderating features, including banning. Queue moderator. This type of moderator can use the Moderation Queue to validate and edit posts, but nothing else. There is nothing to stop you from changing the default permissions for these moderator roles. The process is similar to changing user roles. You could create a new moderator role.

You want to keep the primary moderator for handling the bigger duties, but delegate moving topics, splitting topics, merging topics and locking topics to another type of moderator via a moderator role. First I create the role called Special Moderator. On the next screen, I first went to the Post actions tab and clicked on the No column to disallow all those privileges. I did the same on the Misc tab. On the Topic actions tab, I left these as is.

See the screenshot above. Pressing Submit created the role. With the group now defined, I can select members to have this role. The first step is to add the users to get this role in the Add users block, then pressing the Add permissions button. The next step is to assign the moderator role to these users. User roles bundle sets of permissions that apply to what users can do on your board.

There are six built-in user roles:. Standard Features. Can access most but not all user features. Cannot change user name or ignore the flood limit, for instance. Limited Features. Can access some of the user features.

Attachments, emails, or instant messages are not allowed. All Features. Can use all available forum features for users, including changing the user name or ignoring the flood limit. No Private Messages. Has a limited feature set, and is not allowed to use Private Messages. No Avatar. Has a limited feature set and is not allowed to use the Avatar feature. Newly Registered User Features.