WordPress, phpBB & 4images Integration

I have been asked a couple times how I accomplished having a complete user integration between the software packages, so I have a small description of how I did it excluding having the packages all look the same…..that was hours of editing files and templates….don’t ask!

Just wanted to let you know that it is possible to have a forum, blog and gallery all working on a single registration system and single login across the 3 different components. This is done using the 3 following packages:

BLOG – WordPress – http://www.wordpress.org
FORUM – phpBB – http://www.phpbb.com
GALLERY – 4images – http://www.4homepages.de/

Keep in mind, as it was pointed out to me earlier, that 4images is only for private use and nothing commercial without asking them and purchasing a license. It is perfecly FREE if it is for non-commercial sites and is in my mind the most comprehensive gallery software out there.

STEP 1
Starting with the forum (phpBB), install it and setup the registration that you want to be done here as it will be the registration and user database for all 3 components.

STEP 2
Install 4images gallery software (in the same database as phpBB). Then you must go to the following URL to get the phpBB integration for 4 images at:

http://www.4homepages.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6985#6985

This allows the gallery software (4images) to use the phpBB members to authenticate against so that there is only one memberlist and registration process (at forum).

STEP 3
Install in WordPress the wphpbb plugin located at:
http://www.happypoet.com/hackery/

If you use wphpbb itself it will integrate login and comments. If you only want the login, you can just install wphpbb-login (shows as a seperate plugin) on the same page.

Keep in mind that phpBB is the common thread. If you don’t like that software package then you can ignore this entire thread!

Trent