integrating Phorum under CMS

Hi,
I have a large static platform and I want to integrate Phorum as one "category".
How to run phorum from inside pages generated by static CMS (namely Bricolage). I beleive the phorum
templates could be stripped of (header.tpl, footer.tpl) but I wonder is there something like an "entry point" into
phorum application?

Regards, Zdravko.

Good question, I would also like to see some "official" solution to this!

/T

Take a look at my External Authentication module and my Generic Integration template. The External Authentication module is geared at integrating the behind-the-scenes code of Phorum into an external application, in this case CMS. The Generic Integration template is geared to placing the Phorum pages within another application by pulling out redundant header/footer information and allowing the necessary Phorum headers to be added to the external application's header.

I have tried to document how to use both the module and the template to do this sort of integration and both have descriptive comments within the code as well. The Drupal plugin makes use of the Generic Integration template so you can use that plugin as an example. I also created a Base plugin which can be used as a jumping off point for creating your own CMS plugin for the External Authentication module.

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Hi,

does this Generic integration works without External Authenticaton? What I have in mind is static CMS that can produce
say, something like
<?php
generic_phorum_entry_point(); //everything inside #phorum div
?>
which I guess does not exist.

Another way would be that CMS makes an "empty" page: that is a page without body, from which header and footer
are extracted and preprocessed by header.tpl (or php) and footer.tpl(php). I haven't figured out all the details, here.

Maybe I just don't see how Generic Integration works?!