Quote from dave
Why make a bridge for phpbb2 when that version of phpbb is not even supported anymore by phpbb.  I agree there does need to be a bridge from phpbb3+ to Oxwall.

Sorry i mean phpbb3 not 2

I dont think anybody on here can build this plugin or it would of been done by now ,i think maybe in the futter we might get somebody that can build proper plugins .No offence to all you plugin builders ,but these or the type of plugins that should be being build .How can oxwall move forward if no body wants to try and build these sort of plugins ,there is only so much you can add to oxwall before you need to exspand.We dont realy need plugins to make pages private ,you can do this in cpanel.

We realy need these plugins

A proper plugin so admin can build extra pages.

A bridge so we can add phpbb3 forum board.

A sms payment plugin.

these or the kind of plugins members need .

The problem with a forum conversion is that you would only be able to pass over the basic data at best, it would be to involved to add in all the extra's like the newsfeeds and all that.  If you allowed guests to post on the old forum and not on this one then that i another issue. 

You could end up making a huge mess of things rather easily.  So it would have to be a stipped down verson and just move the very basic data.   Owner, Title, Content, and then the replies would be a challenge as well.

I do not undesrtand your post ,I am asking for a mod to do a bridge for phpbb3 forum board,not a conversion .If the bridge is coded proper everything should work proper .People do not seem to have problems with adding bridges to othere open source projects,so i cant see why it cant be done on oxwall ,if you can code in php proper.You or saying these things in your post Dave without even trying a bridge for oxwall.I beleve wordpress have newsfeed mods and wordpress has a few forum board bridges,which proves your post is wrong .All php code is the same ,its how you write it ,that is the main thing

Quote from dave
True, my bad.. I was thinking conversion not bridge you are correct.   Yes i agree a bridge would be much easier to do.  Sorry i had my head in the wrong place lol..

I have actually been working on a phpbb3 bridge from WHMCS to pbpbb3 so when someone gets hosting they can also create a support forum account as well.  Its a bit of a booger ill tell ya, seems everyone that has tried so far has either left it unfinished and gave up or and did nothing. 

There is some basic unfinished stuff out there but its in really rough condition and very open to hackers, and i mean very basic, i would not trust it.  I have been poking around at it on the back burner now for a while, but have been really busy trying to get caught up on my other fires in my life.  But i will keep trying to see if i can get that done.

Once i get that bridge done i will have the basic core code i need to help with this one. 

I will keep you posted.

The technical term is called "single signon"  (SSO)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_sign-on.

One of the biggest issues with any bridge is maintaining security.  Securty is only as good as the script behind it.  What i mean is lets say that we come up with a bridge for xyz software. And lets say for example that xyz has an exploit we dont know about.  Well now the hackers not only have your login for xyz, they also have your login for Oxwall, as well as other sensitive information.

Not many of the big companies offer "single login" when it comes to internet scripts.  Now for intranet (local office network) this is different because they can provide more security features with an internal network.

Even WHMCS the largest hosting managemet and billing software on the market uses seperate logins for their site and forum.

Now the smart thing to do would be not to have SSO but rather to create an account and then notify them by email what their forum login would be.