System for embedding Phorum in other applications (early preview)

$PHORUM_DIR = "../phorum";

$PHORUM_DIR = "./phorum";

$mainframe->_head['custom'][] = $elements["style"];

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Maurice Makaay

We try to use trigger_error() for all errors in Phorum. Those errors could be caught by an exception handler. There might still be die() calls in there. If you find any that get in your way, then please tell us. We can change them to trigger_error(). Maybe a future idea for the embed_phorum mod could be to offer such an error handler and a callback method. I'll keep that in mind.

 # grep die phorum/mods/embed_phorum/*
phorum/mods/embed_phorum/PhorumConnectorBase.php:        die("Phorum embedding connector \"" . $this->name . "\" " .
phorum/mods/embed_phorum/PhorumConnectorBase.php:        die("Phorum embedding connector \"" . $this->name . "\" " .
phorum/mods/embed_phorum/embed_phorum.php:    if (! isset($GLOBALS["PHORUM_CONNECTOR"])) die("
phorum/mods/embed_phorum/embed_phorum.php:            die("No user data found for user id $user_id. " .
phorum/mods/embed_phorum/run_phorum.php:if (! isset($GLOBALS["PHORUM_CONNECTOR"])) die("
phorum/mods/embed_phorum/run_phorum.php:    die("embed_phorum error: Cannot change directory to " .
phorum/mods/embed_phorum/run_phorum.php:            die();
phorum/mods/embed_phorum/syncuser.php:        die("embed_phorum_syncuser(): no user_id found in the syncuser data");
phorum/mods/embed_phorum/syncuser.php:        die("syncuser error: non-numerical user_id found in the syncuser data");
phorum/mods/embed_phorum/syncuser.php:            die("syncuser error: usernames cannot be changed, but for " .
phorum/mods/embed_phorum/syncuser.php:        die("embed_phorum_deleteuser(): no user_id found in the syncuser data");

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Maurice Makaay
I'm working on that right now (good vacation time spending ;-) and I have some CMS systems downloaded on my laptop to test it. But not finished yet. Currently fighting a bit with Drupal and getting around to its module writing system to build a Phorum integration. I hope to finish a working setup during my flight back to the Netherlands.

If it's only for user integration and single sign on, you might also be able to take a different route. You could write a module that implements the "user_session_restore" hook, which is a really convenient hook for handling single sign on. The other thing to do would be keeping Phorum users in sync with the main system. If you search for "user_session_restore" in these forums, you'll be able to find some example implementations.