扩展名称： RokBridge

商业版权：

RocketTheme


详细内容：

More Info


演示地址：

Live Demo

Traditionally bridges for

Joomla

have been a variety of hack's in both the

Joomla

and the forum code base, resulting in a precarious solution that was prone to break with updates on either side. This is not the case with RokBridge due to its non-invasive characteristics. RokBridge has been developed with the help of key members of the phpBB3 team to ensure that no hacks are required on the

Joomla

or phpBB3 side. Everything just works.

Features

* Non-invasive

Joomla

1.5 application

* Simple unified

Joomla


component

based install & setup

* Powerful New

Joomla

modules: Login, Latest Posts, Latest Members, Top Members, Online Members

* Uses

Joomla

authenticator and user synchronization system, which will allow for authentication via plugins such as openID, ldap, gmail, etc...

* Bi-directional syncing of registrations in either

Joomla

or phpBB3

* Sychronization of profile data

* Very little performance overhead compared to traditional bridges

* No

Joomla

or phpBB3 hacks required

*

Joomla

SEF capabilities trickle down to bridged forum

New Modules!

We have provided a powerful set of

Joomla

modules that can leverage your bridged phpBB3 forum. We have created a new Login

module

that works similar to the

RocketTheme

login

module

, showing avatar, and key forum links. Also, we have a flexible Latest Posts

module

, and now a new Members

module

. The members

module

has 3 modes allowing you to show: Latest Members, Top Members, or Online Members. These work via the bridge so no configuration is required once you have the bridge up and running. Just install, and publish.

How Does the Bridge Work?

The bridge is a

Joomla

! 1.5 application and not a

Joomla

!

component

. This means that

it

does run standalone and not inside

Joomla

!. We have chosen this approach for performance reasons. Running phpBB3 inside

Joomla

! would almost double the server load as both the

Joomla

! CMS and phpBB3 applications would need to be booted up at the same time for each page request. For smaller forums this might not be a problem, but for large installations this would definitely be an issue. With the bridge running as a

Joomla

! application, there is no visual integration. You must use a matching phpBB3

theme

to ensure visual integration. The

RocketTheme

phpBB3

Theme

Club provides matching themes for many of our

Joomla


Templates

.

Core Concepts

The user authentication and syncing architecture has been completely re-written for

Joomla

! 1.5. The system is now completely externalized through the

plugin

architecture. Out of the box

Joomla

! 1.5 offers different authentication plugins (

joomla

, openid, gmail, ldap, ...) and one user

plugin

.

Authentication plugins deal with the authentication of user credentials against a dedicated user store. For example, when a user tries to log in, the system will check the users credentials againt all of the enabled authentication plugins, if one of them succeeds the system will declare the user as authentic and allow the system to continue with the login procedure.

User plugins on the other hand are responsible to log a user in into an application, being that either

Joomla

! itself or an external application like phpBB3. The user plugins also deal with syncing users between the different applications.

Lastly, the

Joomla

! user

plugin

has special feature we call 'auto-registration'. This allows the system to auto-register (store in the database) and authenticated user who is log-in in into the system for the first time.

Extensions

The bridge is making use of all these features to allow

it

to do

it

's magic. The bridge contains the following 3

Joomla

!

extensions

:

* A

Joomla

! 1.5 user

plugin

: This

plugin

takes care of the user synchronisation login/logout synchronisation from

Joomla

! to phpBB3.

* A

Joomla

! 1.5 authentication

plugin

: This

plugin

takes care of the user authentication against the phpBB3 user store (database)

* A

Joomla

! 1.5 application: The application acts as a wrapper and makes

it

possible to offer advanced features to the bridge such a SEF functionality and in a later phase we also hope to offer some sort of

template

wrapping functionality.

The bridge also contains 1 specific phpBB3

extensions

, the phpBB3

Joomla

! authentication

plugin

.

Modes

The bridge is designed to run into two different modes, bridged mode and synced mode. In synced mode the bridge will only perform user and log-in/out syncing, while in bridged mode the bridge will run as a

Joomla

! 1.5 application and offer extra features, firing of

Joomla

plugins, and

Joomla

-

style

SEF URL's.

What does this mean in practice :

* Synced mode : when you install the phpBB3 user and authentication plugins in

Joomla

! and activated the phpBB3 authentication

plugin

in phpBB3 you are running in synced mode.

* Bridged mode : when you access your

phpBB

installation through the special

Joomla

! application you are running in bridged mode.

Quote:

http://www.

rockettheme

.com/

extensions

-downloads/club/1006-rokbridge