What's the best CMS option for Power Board integration? The range seams to be fairly limited (in fact I can't find anything).

I want to build a site with Power Board as the forum but need a seamlessly integrating CMS.

Thanks

Whats your budget?

I didn't even consider a budget. I was thinking open source/free, just like the options for other forum software are.

If I had to pay, it wouldn't be higher than a hundred or so.

http://www.subdreamer.com/

$99.95 for a year. I haven't personally used it, but have seen it used and it seems to work well.

Although if you can, i'd use PHP to build a CMS.

what do you want to integrate? themes? user database?

The questions are what's your budget?

-or-

How much coding are you prepared to do?

This is all I'm aware of:

http://www.subdreamer.com/

You can export board content as RSS and then use something like simplepie to stick it wherever

You could also export RSS feeds to drupal or yahoo pipes or pipes inside simplepie inside drupal, etc.

you could try joomla which is free, but you'll have some work tweaking to integrate it.

All I want in terms of integration is news linked from the front page to the forums and the CMS to use the member system of the forums.

Apart from that they could be totally seperate.

Another CMS that you could use if you'd like, I'm not sure if you can integrate it or not, but the one that I'm thinking of is Etomite.

News could be integrated from any CMS which supports XML importing of articles. Member integration - you could either find one which supports it out of the box, custom code member integration, or set IPB to use the CMS's member table

I've got a custom system. It currently handles adding content via physical files that are created in a separate editor. It uses the Smarty version of IPB SDK 5.0.

I am still working on getting CMSMS integrated with IPB as well, but I've been bogged down with other projects lately.

What would essentially be required in a custom integration?

Would setting it to use the CMS's membership table be that simple?

Thanks.

Good point. Why pay if you can get it for free?
I recommend you using The WebAPP CMS Perl Portal from http://www.web-app.net
Its both open source, free (GPL license!) and is supported 24/7 for free too in over 35 languages!

WebAPP
http://www.web-app.net

I personally haven't seen a CMS that is fully functional and looking good. If you can, I would recommend you to write your own (which is something I will do actually)

If you can hold off for a bit (it's still in beta testing) immersecms has support for ipb integration which you can see in use on their site (blog post/gallery comments and more probably...).

BINGO!

This is exactly why I recommended WebAPP Open Source CMS.
Having flat file db and being written in the ancient CGI language. You can both easily modify it and find infinite addons and resources to add to it!

WebAPP
http://www.web-app.net

No offence... well actually, this probably will be offensive.

That app sucks like a dyson.... - a lot.

http://www.mkportal.it/



Free, and EXACTLY what you are looking for. It can even automatically clone the theme you are using on your IPB.
Uses the same database, and more.

All depends, if you are looking for kidz stuff, then stick to your php crap.
Just being honest with you.

WebAPP is not for kidz and school class sites.

The moment you spelt kids with a z and called php crap compared you cgi/perl you lost all credibility

So a CMS written with PHP is "kids' stuff"?

Haha.

By that logic...I guess that means forum software written in PHP is "kidz stuff" and "php crap"

If it's so bad, why are you even posting here?

And why is that?

Its your own choice if you want a script for "kidz" and "warez" usage. Like 99.999% of the php CMS out there.

WebAPP is not for that and do not expect WebAPP to win any "credibility" for that either.

php is for users who have not got a clue what Perl is and how it evolved, and why should you and they care about it anyway while having simple needs for "kidz", "warez" and other nonsense sites.

Its a free world...

That's the funniest post I've read all week.

... okay.

HAHAHA!

Yea, okay...try telling that to a Perl/PHP/Objective-C programmer...*cough*ME*cough*..yea...that's what I thought.

Perl is good, and very powerful, but there are some things PHP is better at...and there always will be.

All depends... of you need a forum for having posts under "IM IN YR FORUMZ READIN YR POSTZ", you would certainly know what I mean to

WebAPP is mainly for users who can spell without "z". No age limit but its a good starting point.

LOL, i'd trust a cms written in LOLCODE more than one associated with spammers like you

Guys...ignore the troll...

he links to "the emacs script editor"

that's one thing i've never heard it called and i've been using it for ten years.

There a lot of php projects out there that just should not exist. This scares the bejeses out of me:

http://nanoweb.si.kz/

I've been playing with this a lot lately:

http://orangoo.com/skeletonz/

Its exactly what I was saying.

I just thought it was funny that the poster above with " IM IN YR FORUMZ READIN YR POSTZ" in his signature was judging the script credibility on the ground of a hint to him that WebAPP is not for "Kidz".

Make a search and see in your own eyes. over 90% of the applications using php are "Kidz" applications. While over 90% of the applications making a use of CGI are none "Kidz" applications. This fact speaks for itself.

Heres all the kidz Apps I was able to find.

Phpmyadmin, Drupal, Mambo, SquirrelMail, MediaWiki, Moodle, WordPress, PHPMailer...

It's not in my signature... it's in my user title. If you can't tell the difference then what hope do we have using something you promote... Ever heard of LOLCODE? It's an amusing programming language that was discussed on this forum hence the title.

Anyway, cgi apps are only used by the older people who don't know how to move on and embrace new technologies better equipped for creating web apps. like PHP, ROR, Python...

How does anyone find anything on your site between all those google ads? A good app isn't only in the code, it's in the design and usability, something your site and app are obviously lacking.

IP.Dynamic all the way!!!!

OH WAIT that's still VAPORWARE....come on guys 2 years now, but in the mean time I have been using SubDreamer with great success and enjoying it very much.

I have to say that bagging on PHPMyAdmin isn't fair...what else do you suggest some people use, nothing?

MediaWiki isn't a kidz app either...

I think that was the point... none of them (well maybe mambo & drupal) are kidz apps, they're all powerful and used by millions of people.

sorry...i missed the sarcasm LOL >_>

I consider phpMyadmin a lazy-application, because I don't want to whip out my php/mysql manual everytime I want to perform a query or delete a table. I'm not great at remembering the actions.

I uz LOLCMS.


http://lolcode.com/

1.) I accept the critics for the design. I am not happy with it either, but there are over 100 themes out there which one can choose from.

2.) Google adds is something else, we work for free and the ads [hardly] pay for the organization expenses for hosting. And by the way the admins can turn off/on google ads for specific sections... so WebAPP is not just free the sites installing they can run thier own adsense program and earn cash. What WebAPP gets in return? a link back at best..).

3.) New technologies are fine and great, and one surely should and could translate the script to other languages. But please don't undervalue Perl. It has been there for ages, actually the greatest human project ever (and most expensive) ... is written in Perl, the Human Genome Project. So Perl is both an old but also a new technology.

End of speech :-)

someone have integration tutorial for PHPNuke and IPB 2.X?

There was IPB-Nuke, but that website is long gone.. I think.

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is a free blogging system that be extended and used a full blown Content Management System.

IPB together with Wordpress can create beautiful websites that can be flexible, expandable and scalable.

Check out: http://www.invisionplanet.com

To say that Perl/CGI is only used by "older people" is as ridicilous as saying "PHP is kids stuff". It shows that you dont know anything about Perl. I am just guessing, but you probably never did anything in Perl, right? And probably nothing with Ruby and Python also.

Has anybody tried to integrate IPB into Typo3?

Okay, first of all, You registered an account on IPS' company forums just to advertise that script?

Anyways, if you're calling PHP "crap", then you've just made #1 on my list of "Most Moronic and Uninformed Statements Ever". The majority of dynamic websites on the net today are built with PHP, and done quite well I might add. Also, that WebAPP script sucks horribly...I tried it myself - the control panel is hard to just pick up and go, and the functionality is limited.

By the way, "kids" has an s instead of z. Someone who can't even spell "kids" doesn't have any position calling anything "kidz crap" in comparison to ANYTHING they think is better/more mature, like you claim Perl to be. Like nash said, it's proof you know nothing of Perl or what it's capable of.

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I kind of wanted to learn perl and write my CMS in it, obviously perl seems to scare away a lot of people, and I'd rather slap the PHP 5.2 and MySQL 4.1 requirements on my page and call it done as far as what you need (plus a few permissions at the script checks when it boots up the engine, I'll look into writing a small script that you can upload and will check if it will run fine).

Same with python, but the guy who tried to get me into using it said "LOL IIS sucks" instead of telling me how to get it to run on IIS, so I never got into it being as I'm not interested in a language I can't easily run on all servers (though I bet it can run on IIS... somehow anyway).

I should upload new screenshots and a movie or two of the one I'm writing, I want to do IPB integration because I really like IPB, I use it myself, and using the plugin system I wrote it should be really easy to do really.

Really?

I'll have to check it out whenever it's released.

Problem is it's a very buggy system. Even the translations are poor.

Wonder if there are any other free alternatives.

Your are not allow to use "Z"