Customizing SMF > Portals, Bridges, and Integrations
New tools to help integrating SMF with something else
Kindred:
Why don't you just use SMF for that?
There are certain things which can/should be externally done, and others which really should be done, properly form inside the forum portion. Why would you need to create boards from an external source?
EpicorUsersGroup:
I already have a website with supports sub-groups within our user community, I would like to be able to create and connect those sub-groups with their own discussion group within a specific category in the forum. We are new to smf and I am trying to integrate the forum into our existing functionality as smoothly as possible with as little administrative effort as possible.
Kindred:
I think that you may be using cross-purpose terms.
to SMF, a GROUP is a way of organizing users for security, permissions, access or visual organization.
If this is how you are using the term, the what you should do is - use the API to associate your group structure to a similar group structure in SMF and then use SMF's permissions to grant (or deny) access to boards in SMF.
EpicorUsersGroup:
That is not my point at all. Please excuse the reference to "groups" this has nothing do with SMF member groups. I understand how to use the API for that. We are a software user group with an existing website, I am adding and integrating SMF into our existing website. I am just trying to figure out if it is possible to create a new SMF board automatically when we activate a new "sub-group" within our membership.
Kindred:
well, since creating a board is just a php routine, yes.... it is. Although setting the permissions might be a little tricky.
remember, once you load SSI or the API, you can often use internal SMF functions.
although I am uncertain which file the create_board routine is in... you can check the WIKI and the function database...
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