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Will SMF and Joomla live happily ever after, together?

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Murgen:
Many years ago I migrated from EZ-board via Ikonboard to Invision. In those marry days Invision slogan was 'why pay for a forum when php and mysql are for free?'. A year later they changed their course and started asking money. I migrated to SMF and became very fond of this little piece of software. In that time I started developing some community-sites and after Mambo I went with the flow to Joomla!

SMF-community had a very fine software-bridge (Oristo!) integrating SMF-Joomla in a very fine way. But the GNU from Joomla blocked distribution so ... end of life cycle.

I'm getting very worried. I see a lot of development for phpBB 3 with Joomla but SMF-developments are falling behind. Right now the JFusion 1.05e alfa is doing nothing good for my portals, I need dual login and I need it bad for even considering upgrading to Joomla 1.5. From my point of view my personal roadmap is the next:

1. JFusion with a proper dual login and cookie handling for SMF (mind you, right now I can't even login into the JFusion portal ... just the phpBB3 forums) and Joomla!

2. Dump Joomla! and pick up Mambo with SMF.

3. Dump Joomla! and continue with TinyPortal.

4. Migrate to phpBB3 to continue Joomla!

Right now SMF is much more important to my community then the portal is. What is your opinion about my personal roadmap. I'm running out of time since the operational Joomla software is getting too old to keep online.

Regards, Murgen

babjusi:
Option 2 and 3 ;)

青山 素子:
A lot depends on what you features you consider important.

Migration to Mambo is a possibility as Joomla! 1.0 is a fork of Mambo, so it shouldn't be difficult to complete the migration. If you don't need such a "heavy" solution, then TinyPortal is a nice alternative that is lighter.

You could always choose option 4 if you don't see a future in Mambo or SMF, but considering many plugin developers have moved to Mambo from Joomla! since their license clarification, I do think that there is a good future for Mambo. As for SMF, version 2.0 is a good preview of our future.

Murgen:
SMF never let me down ... so far. :) Guess where my loyalty is.

redone:
Also look at Drupal. I have been using Drupal 6 of late and its pretty impressive so is the 5x series as well and it has plenty of established modifications for it too.

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