Loaded Commerce Community

The objective is to take the contributions designed for integration of phpBB with oscommerce and convert to cre. Consolidate all of them into one nice package. Features included will be:

- Shared account creation. Accounts created in cre are mirrored in phpBB.

- Shared login/logoff. Users who log into the shopping cart are also logged into phpBB. Logging off from phpBB or cre logs you out of both systems. phpBB login is standardized to e-mail address + password combination like cre. Logging into phpBB does NOT log you into cre: this keeps users who are only signing in to post from signing into the shopping cart unaware, putting their personal information at risk should they forget to log off. Shopping carts should always require people to re-enter their password before signing into the cart area, and this emulates that behaviour.

- Usernames are created using first name + last initial. Most people don't want their last names publicized without their explicit authorization, for privacy and security reasons. Instead, this mod creates the usernames only using the last initial.

- Prevention of username collision with first name + last initial + sequential number. This mod counts how many usernames already exist similar to the first name + last initial combination (testm) and automatically appends the next number to the username (testm2, testm3, etc) to ensure 2 users don't end up with the same auto-generated username.

- Site Name is keyed to Store Name. Editing the Store Name from the osCommerce administration panel updates your phpBB Site Name as well.

- Board Description is keyed to a new Store Slogan field. Editing the Store Slogan from the cre administration panel updates your phpBB Board Description as well.

- Board E-mail is keyed to Store E-mail. Editing the Store E-Mail from the cre administration panel updates your phpBB Board E-mail as well.

Based on:
phpBB mods:
- Username Or Email Login Mod v.1.0.4
by Johnpg82
osCommerce mods:
- pbpBB2 and osC shared account creation v.0.2
by anderskiel
- PHPBB 2.0.8a implementation
by chaveiro
- phpBB-osCommerce Bridge
by gabrielk

I am working on this now but am having a issue with session, I will release as soon as i fix it.

This sounds very good, will want to try this, yes indeed
but, just two Q's if I may please...

1) Will it be the latest bersion of phpbb2?
2) Will the Loaded store + the forum(phpbb2) keep separate MySQL Databases?

It will be the current version 2.0.21 of phpBB, they will have to share the same database since bridges tend to be difficult for users to install.

hmm... give me a shout M8 when done, I'll like to have a looksies.

Sean

I am almost done with this but am having a little problem when the session id is in the url, the ? in the id is causing a error but if you change it to & such as in oscommerce it is fine. When session id is dropped everything is fine, so users only have a problem when they come to my site and click on the forums link first. If they click on another link first then the forums link the session id is stripped from the url causing no problems.

Check it out: http://www.grdstore.com

are you good at this porting thing?

think you can merge joomla in ?

I believe there is already a contrib that combines joomla, oscommerce, and phpbb all together to share logins. I think I saw it on the joomla forums.

wow... why are you working on doing it seperatly ?

joomla has this amazing plug in... allvideo

We can install that contribution for you.

price?

email me for the quote.

I can put a contribution together for this since I believe I have worked out all the bugs, except for one that only pertains to me. I thought there was a lack of interest on this so I never did it. Check out my site to see it working, but don't click on the forums link on the first click, this is the bug that only pertains to me because of the tab contribution I am using, I it didn't place the oscid in the url everything would be fine but because cre uses ?oscid90823479807234897instead of &oscid890723947982374 it comes up with sql errors. Once the oscid is dropped "after you click on a link to a new page" everything is fine.

50.00 for the contribution

Hey boostin4hp is there a zip of the working version from your site with install instructions? you mentioned upping it or could you email it? Thanks

i would also really like this contrib.... dude... this is cool... congrats...

does any one know if there are any security issues with phpbb ? lol i had a hornball attack one of my coppermine sites... flooded the site with porn, and hid the files... google picked up the links.... eek... needless to say, now im a little worried...