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Will SMF and Joomla live happily ever after, together?

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mclane:
I too am a fan of SMF and Joomla. Man, I wish there were a solution.

AtlasShrugging:
In a similar sinking boat here.  >:(

We manage 60+/-sites & some of them (law libraries) have thousands of pages of content. Anyone on the outside looking in - or a visitor, would think it was a simple enough decision - that content is king. But they'd be wrong. For us, the whole reason for the content is because the community demands it. And the forum is what builds the community. ie they learn from the content - but they discuss & bond & network  & contract through the forum. So you really really have to know your needs, audience, members etc to make a solid decision. We're still wrestling with what to do.

Rotten to have to choose "content over community" so to speak. But given our particular scenario, we absolutely will not quit SMF unless something better comes along. And if there is something better, we've yet to find it.

And I don't want to run a load different CMS. So that means redoing all of them with a new one. It would be much simpler to drop SMF - but easy isn't always right. I think it would cost us way too much in the long run to take the easy way out. And quite frankly (not that I would admit this), being forced to choose doesn't sit well with me anyway, so I'm digging in my heels.

Don't know much about Tiny, & wondering if it's robust enough to handle what we need. Right now it looks like it'll be Drupal as soon as we can stomache rolling up our sleeves for the transition. Unless of course the developers over yonder get lonely & decide to rethink things.  O:)

If anyone has any Drupal/SMF or large integrated Tiny/SMF sites - I would really appreciate some links. I am so not looking forward to this ..

nightmarepatrol:
I agree with AtlasShrugging (who is John Galt?), I have become fond of drupal as it provides a tremendous amount of flexibility that Joomla and others do not. It is (to me) is also much easier to administrate. But like most CMS systems the forum software lacks the out-of-the-box sophistication and functionality that SMF (and other forums) have.

Since most forums are tacked on to a CMS, but just as important as the CMS itself in many cases I would love to see a way via API's and stylesheets to combine the two and deliver a uniform looking product without massive fussing. Tinyportal is a great mod, but can't deliver the full spectrum of goodies that a CMS can.  I realize there are license issue incompatibilities with SMF and drupal, but is there a way to find a middle ground?


With the onset of SMF 2.x, and Drupal 6, having the ability to integrate SMF and all of it's capabilities with drupal's taxonomy and organic groups would provide an almost limitless possibilities for those of us that run dual package sites.

This of course would be a major undertaking bot technically, ideologically and legally I suppose.

Orstio:
The issues I had with bridging Drupal were technical, not legal, just so that is understood.

There was an integration made that uses the smf_api.php script, but having a look at the files, it appears they are distributing SMF code without permission. :(

nightmarepatrol:
I realize the technical issues could be immense, starting with the user table (the user 0 and user 1 thing) right down to how content is stored and recalled. I would love to see drupal and SMF gleefully coexisting with one another as they are (IMHO) the two best at what they do.

I'll see if I can find the script, but again I don't want to violate any licensing either.

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