Whats the latest news on the Portal addon? Is it going to happen or is the portal add on not being done?
I have no Idea... but is this a good question to ask...
Why might it not be a good question to ask :-\
kevin might not be happy - thats all I'm saying...
meh.... i have wasted four months wating for this addon.... and 2 months waiting for even a snippet of news....
/me thinks its time to give up and go grab mambo.
Thanks for the thought guys... but I believe the addons time has come and gone....
Good luck if you have decided to continue the add-on... if not then thanks for trying it anyways....
Cheers,
Amph.
Quote from: Room11 on September 02, 2004, 10:01:11 AM
kevin might not be happy - thats all I'm saying...
Kevin might not be happy, but it's still a reasonable question to ask.
Months ago someone (not Kevin) decided to announce to the SMF community that the add-on was under development and, perhaps incorrectly, gave the impression that it was nearing completion. As there are very few options for integrating a decent CMS/portal with a decent forum it should have been fairly obvious that making such an announcement would set a very high level of expectation amongst the community.
It's gone pretty quiet since the announcement. I can't help feel that the announcement was made far too soon and I'm not sure why the announcement was made when it was.
I've given up waiting. I've got a few issues to resolve with migrating my existing forum to SMF. If the add-on has appeared when I'm ready to jump to SMF I'll take a look at it, but otherwise I'm going with Mambo.
It's a total rewrite so you can be better patient on this one
when it's final you hear it bout here ;)
You are correct in saying that I am unhappy.
No need for Google searches anymore. Here's a link to the site I set up with my current SMF version of my portal, http://smf.yauws.com/
My original site that housed MyiBPortal was at www.yauws.com which was for Invision Powerboard. That site has been moved for the reasons mentioned below. And that 404 error page (not really a 404) does have a link to my site. :) Sad to say, I have also moved all the work I have provided for the past two years. The current site is nothing more than a personal site now.
The SMF version involved a lot of recoding but not to get it integrated. The recoding was done to enhance it beyond a typical portal. I tend to think of it more of a CMS type. This part has been done but outside testing has been very slow. People do have lives to live too. I just did not get enough feedback yet on the beta testing to let this get released in it's current form.
So why am I mad?
I put ALOT of work into my portal over the past two years. I am the only coder for it and that takes it toll over time. I can not keep up with this myself. I also provided support and "blocks" for it for all these years.
I just can't take doing this anymore. An offer to past this to Lewis Media did not go over very well, so for the time being I am taking a much needed break from it.
But what REALLY put me over the top is the fact that someone, whom received the SMF beta in good faith, is now exploiting it by claiming it as his own.
I have all the proof I need on this. This person was exposed not too long ago on this. After he was informed as to how I know this is my code, he removed MY portal from his site, putting nuke in it's place.
But now this person is back to his old tricks. Changes were made by him to further hide the fact that it still is my portal. Little does he know, I can still prove that the current one he has on his site, posing MY portal as his own, is MyiBPortal.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do now. I can just walk away from the table and live my life without having to support this portal anymore
or I can give up my life, supporting this for the rest of my life
or I can just release this thing with no support just to stop this punk from exploiting MY work.
You make the call.
Quote from: packman on September 02, 2004, 12:26:39 PM
Months ago someone (not Kevin) decided to announce to the SMF community that the add-on was under development and, perhaps incorrectly, gave the impression that it was nearing completion.
While Kevin did not bring up the idea of posting an announcement, the text of it was approved by him. We often announce things before they are near completion; it was close to a year between the first public announcement of the SMF project and our first public release. It was never intended for the announcement to infer a time-frame for a release.
Quote from: packman on September 02, 2004, 12:26:39 PMAs there are very few options for integrating a decent CMS/portal with a decent forum it should have been fairly obvious that making such an announcement would set a very high level of expectation amongst the community.
From what we had seen on Kevin's work already, the portal was beyond even our expectations. :)
Quote from: Kevin_MIP on September 02, 2004, 02:36:16 PM
You make the call.
As some people know, we went through basically the same thing with YaBB SE. It sucked and really hurt our team both as a whole and each of us individually. We were however able to work through it, took months, and with each other's support have gotten back on track and where we are today.
Thank you David, Joseph, Jeff, [Unknown] and everyone else that I may have left out.
I got the nudge I needed and released it on smf.yauws.com
Good luck to the SMF team, Lewis Media and the SMF community.
Kevin, any chance you stay active if we get the chance to donate to yauws for you input and intellectual property?
[give us a paypal button so we can get some $ together to sue some people]
Quote from: David on September 02, 2004, 03:01:08 PM
We often announce things before they are near completion; it was close to a year between the first public announcement of the SMF project and our first public release. It was never intended for the announcement to infer a time-frame for a release.
Announcing things very early is OK, as long as you keep up the communications and give some idea of progress. I know that release dates are a pain, because everyone wants you to stick to (or beat) them! But an update every few weeks to let people know that the project is still underway and on track against an unpublished plan helps the potential users to decide whether to keep on watching. Whilst SMF may have taken a long time to go from announcement to first public release, was there no communication from the developers about it for that entire 12 months?
Quote from: David on September 02, 2004, 03:01:08 PM
From what we had seen on Kevin's work already, the portal was beyond even our expectations. :)
Sorry for any misunderstanding...I wasn't suggesting that the code/feature set wasn't up to what people expected from it. I meant that once it had been announced in such a way as to make it sound like a world-beating product (which I'm sure it is), so many people wanted it immediately that there was bound to be a lot of pressure to get it finished and loads of questions asked about a release date. The lack of communication just increases the mystery and made people ask even more questions! A bit of regular communication might have helped set some realistic expectations of when we might see it.
Quote from: Kevin_MIP on September 02, 2004, 02:36:16 PM
You make the call.
I wasn't aware of the issues that Kevin has recently faced with the 'add-on'. Perhaps these have been aired before, but if they were, I (and I suspect a lot of others) missed it. Having now heard from Kevin I understand far better why the add-on hasn't appeared yet and how p*ssed off Kevin must feel. Maybe there were reasons why the story couldn't be told sooner, but now that it has been told, I think a lot of people will understand his position and the status of the add-on.
I really, really, really would like to see a fully featured CMS/portal (or even better dozens of them!) with a strong integration to SMF (or even better dozens of other forums!) There may be reasons why Kevin wants to develop his software on his own, and of course that's his choice. However, now that the story has been told, perhaps some people might be able to offer their services to help out with coding, testing, block writing, etc, very much like the SMF community does for SMF.
I'm a late-comer to the SMF community. 3-4 months ago I'd never heard of SMF, but now that I've found it and have joined in with the community spirit, I've already been asked to help out with some mods to the phBB2 converter (and have started to implement some of the ideas). That's the positive side of a community...perhaps the SMF community can help Kevin with some of the add-on work...but only if that's what he wants. Even if he doesn't want any help, the other positive thing the community can do is to make him feel wanted/valued and encourage him to carry on developing the product that appears to be well received by users of another forum.
Quote from: Kevin_MIP on September 02, 2004, 02:36:16 PM
You are correct in saying that I am unhappy.
I can now see why you're unhappy, but I also now see that the unhappiness isn't with the question asking about progress...it's a more deep seated unhappiness about how you've been treated. Perhaps asking the question and your response will prove to be a turning point towards a more positive future?
these posts now make everything a lot clearer
I really hope that you can continue (much more positively perhaps)
EDIT:
*lost for words*
Now I get some closure. It was so sudden, but now I find out what escalated to the decision.
Hope you get your life back to normal Kevin!
i was actually really looking forward to it, too bad this doesnt work out for you kevin
Well, at least now people understand what's going on.
I gotta say Kevin.
That sucks man (the cms theft) and I sincerely hope all works out for you.
But as far as stopping portal development......
I didn't quite understand throughout your couple of posts in this thread if you were stopping, continuing, releasing the cms on Yauws, or just forgetting about it forever.
If you are stopping development, what's the chance of a release so that development could be picked up by other parties (in the spirit of open source).
And if you are continuing but need more help... just ask buddy... this community is full of well-intentioned, helpful, extremely talented people.
Don't let one black-hearted, moronic thief give you a bad impression of the rest of us mate.
Either way... I will probably be moving to mambo, and working out integration through a bridge.
But if your CMS does become publicly available I will still probably give it a try ;) hehe
Cheers,
Amph.
I did make it publically available a several hours ago today.
You are welcome to download it if you'd like.
The main reason why it's available now for everyone is to remove any doubt that this portal is in fact the same portal that someone is claiming to be their own.
I will be changing the frontpage yet again to point to the location of this distribution as I can see now how some might not have noticed it's location.
To publish the product was the best you could do to protect your rights.
I doubt that the guy who ripped your program off is a serious competitor. He is well known and banned from here so hasn't access to the newest SMF pre releases. A couple of days ago I have seen that he seeems even be banned from lunabyte, I found namely a post there which looks like he has done a similar thing over there and at least he has guest status over there. At least it looks like he is well known in the portal scene for rip off's.
Sorry to hear Kevin.
Under bad situations sometimes its a good thing to step back and take a break. Even if it turns out to be longer than a break.
I'm sorry to hear that Kevin.
Quote from: packman on September 02, 2004, 04:08:13 PM
... I'm a late-comer to the SMF community. 3-4 months ago I'd never heard of SMF, but now that I've found it and have joined in with the community spirit, I've already been asked to help out with some mods to the phBB2 converter (and have started to implement some of the ideas). That's the positive side of a community...perhaps the SMF community can help Kevin with some of the add-on work...but only if that's what he wants. Even if he doesn't want any help, the other positive thing the community can do is to make him feel wanted/valued and encourage him to carry on developing the product that appears to be well received by users of another forum.
being two years now with Yabbse/SMF and I can assure that :) and please Kevin if there is anything the community can do to help just ask.
To lay to any doubts to rest, this was not Kevin's fault. It was mine. I was the one who gave the portal to quadro under the assumption he was a developer to help Kevin. After reading this, you all may wish to yell and chastize me and that I understand. Just know, I am SORRY.
In this play of events, I will refer to Kevin (one true developer of MyiBPortal) as Kevin G. and the person that stole this work as Quadro. since both of their names are Kevin.
Now, the reason Quadro has this portal is because I (YES ME) am the f'up who trusted this guy with his words of "I want to help develop this portal he is working on".
Silly naive me, sent him the portal to review and test until Kevin G. returned from vacation.
So, quadro (Kevin Brooker) starts showing me his "new project" he is working on. It looks nice but familiar to Kevin G.
So, in the interim, quadro assisted me in setting up Grudge's shout box on my site, he upgraded us to Beta 6 (As ok'd by Jeff L.), and modified some lines on our "tables" to make them thicker. He did all of this because as I said, I know nutin about code. I thanked him for his work and it was appreciated! Heck, what a nice guy for doing all of this.
Well, Kevin G. gets back from vacation (well needed and deserved), and IM's me asking about quadro's portal......
To make a long story short, Kevin G. showed me how he knew quadro had stolen his portal.
Now, I do not act like I know code or much about this web crap at all, I do know I was sent proof and I do know that this is NOT the first time quadro has been accused of stealing someone else's work.
I have been contacted by people in the past that also know quadro very closely also had proof and now have warned me about him and to just stay away from him as he will do the same.
I keep logs, threats, and I confirm stuff before making accusations. I was going to keep my mouth shut and not participate in this discussion as I have chosen not to involve myself with this person any more. I have looked up much of his threat assessment he has accused me of by Googling it and mostly these were Bots and Apache logs of some sort, not hacks.
Now, quadro will most likely reply to this or email this all to everyone including our hosts. At this point, I do not care.
I did have links on my site for apz and duns but am slowly going through and removing them so he cannot state I am still doing this. I have also visited his site to see what others are talking about and to see what his site looks like now as he has mine also. I do try to keep from going to www.quadroplex.com or net now as I know he will continue to accuse me of hacking attempts even though this is a open site and available for anyone.
I do not know how to hack sites, nor know what all of his ramblings are half the time. This is the only thing he has against me that can hinder my hosting so, quadro, by all means, please continue this threat as I am cleaning up those areas.
I can only hope the people here and at SMF (where he has also threatened) until they sent him their lawyer info to contact and I have been given the ok to contact their lawyers also if needed.
FYI, he also made a similar attempt to steal LSP portal system which I am sure their staff will confirm if any of you care to ask them. He hides the info well on how he steals the software from what developers have told me.
He stole from my true friend(s), he has harassed me, he as lied to me, he has abused my trust, and has lied to my friends, and much more.
I am truly SORRY for causing all of this by introducing this guy into a OUTSTANDING project and group such as MyiBPortal and have no one to blame but myself for this. I most likely will not reply to any further postings about this or respond to his threats or accusations. PLEASE know, there are MANY people that can attest to his stealing etc. I think you know, that the people here at this good site, SMF, LSP, as well as my host are pretty reliable and whatever usually spews from quadro's mouth is most likely either a lie or a taken out of context statement to the actual truth.
Please be careful with this guy, he is not a nice guy.
You made a mistake, which every single person here is guilty of on, I'm sure, more than one occasion. And you've realized the mistake and what not to do in the future. I don't think anyone here believes you had ill intentions when you gave it over to him, nor thought that he might steal the code, because, for the most part, everyone who even just frequents this project (SMF), is a decent person trying to utilize good software and perhaps help make it better. It's ok. :)
**Flame on**
And, I believe (or hope), that everyone around here already knows Quadro is an idiot. Anyone who looks at his web site and/or his 'clients' can tell that he just couldn't possibly have the skill to create anything even mildly useful, especially creating and integrating an advanced portal system into a very advanced piece of forum software like this. Either that, or he's VERY good at making others believe that he's a total dunce while, secretly, he's a bona-fide programmer with some intelligence....I'm thinking no.
**Flame off**
Anyhow, like I said, you made a mistake, but its in the past. Intentions were good, and it just blew up. Sad, but it happens. The important thing is is that it's pretty clear as to who's doing the good work, and who's not. Quadro is banned from both this forum and from Lunabyte (as far as I know), and with any luck, will slowly lose steam soon. (After all, it uses a lot of energy to download software, change so text in the files, and then re-upload it. :P)
- Methonis
Quote from: CP on September 03, 2004, 01:02:10 PM
To lay to any doubts to rest, this was not Kevin's fault. It was mine. I was the one who gave the portal to quadro under the assumption he was a developer to help Kevin. After reading this, you all may wish to yell and chastize me and that I understand. Just know, I am SORRY.
IMO CP... this is a terrible thing that has happened... but if it is
anyone's fault, it is
Quadro's, not yours.....
It's a shame that you were tricked, but that is about it....
If I bought a gun... and I used it to go on a school killing rampage... would that then be the gun store owner's fault??
Cheers,
Amph.
Well, it is a sad thing...
Kevin>
Well, that happened here in SMF, is the risk of putting open source code to the public but, the truth is, quadro project will die... Same as the one that stole out code, without SMF official approval, and banned from here, I assure you, is only time before he drops the stolen project. don't give him a lot of your time/toughts. Is not worth it
CP>
Well... It seems you didn't act of bad will, so, the best you can do for now, after what you already did apologizing to Kevin G, is just take it as a note for future reference... Not worth to blame yourself everyday now that this happened..., well, i i said, he will eventualy drop the project.. i don't see on it any future.
And, enjoy life, enjoy the project, and do what fills you, guys ;)
My first SMF/Yauws is up and running at Jupiter Guild (http://www.jupiterinfo.com) using Andreas Aquamania buttons.
Good job. :)
- Methonis
Hey, Thunderace! I saw you reply on the yauws site to someone about having a front page wrapper setup... Can you send me an example of what you mean? Munchaen (the guy you were responding to) and I have been trying to work through this problem as we each have it. (We work together) Both of us are pretty much coding newbs...
In admin create a wrapper called "frontpage"
It should end up looking something like this ...
<!-- #PORTAL_SMFTEMPLATE_main_top()# -->
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" border="0" align="left">
<tbody>
<tr class="windowbg2">
<td width="15%" valign="top" align="left" class="ltnotop smalltext last">
<table width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" border="0" align="center" class="bordercolor">
<tbody>
<!-- #PORTAL_BLOCK_ID(3,0,0)# -->
<!-- #PORTAL_MESSAGE_ID(2,0,0)# -->
</tbody></table>
</td>
<td width="70%" valign="top" align="left" class="ltnotop smalltext last">
<!-- #PORTAL_CONTENT_ID(1,0,0)# -->
<p /><p>
<!-- #PORTAL_BLOCK_ID(4,0,0)# -->
</p><p>
<!-- #PORTAL_BLOCK_ID(10,0,0)# -->
</p><p>
<br /></p></td>
<td width="15%" valign="top" align="left" class="rtnotop smalltext last">
<table width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" border="0" align="center" class="bordercolor">
<tbody><tr>
<td class="titlebg">Forum</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="windowbg">
<!-- #PORTAL_BLOCK_ID(2,0,0)# -->
<!-- #PORTAL_BLOCK_ID(7,0,0)# -->
<!-- #PORTAL_BLOCK_ID(9,0,0)# -->
<br /></td>
</tr></tbody></table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<!-- #PORTAL_SMFTEMPLATE_main_bottom()# -->
Ensure that it is activated
Create an assigment called "frontpage"
Assignment name = "frontpage"
Site area = "frontpage"
Wrappers = "frontpage"
Create your own blocks, content and message blocks and you're away
Thank you Thunderace, gonna try this out today. With IPB and Yauws it was a bit easier to get the portal running...
Quote from: Thunderace on September 20, 2004, 06:00:59 AM
In admin create a wrapper called "frontpage"
It should end up looking something like this ...
<!-- #PORTAL_SMFTEMPLATE_main_top()# -->
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" border="0" align="left">
<tbody>
<tr class="windowbg2">
<td width="15%" valign="top" align="left" class="ltnotop smalltext last">
<table width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" border="0" align="center" class="bordercolor">
<tbody>
<!-- #PORTAL_BLOCK_ID(3,0,0)# -->
<!-- #PORTAL_MESSAGE_ID(2,0,0)# -->
</tbody></table>
</td>
<td width="70%" valign="top" align="left" class="ltnotop smalltext last">
<!-- #PORTAL_CONTENT_ID(1,0,0)# -->
<p /><p>
<!-- #PORTAL_BLOCK_ID(4,0,0)# -->
</p><p>
<!-- #PORTAL_BLOCK_ID(10,0,0)# -->
</p><p>
<br /></p></td>
<td width="15%" valign="top" align="left" class="rtnotop smalltext last">
<table width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" border="0" align="center" class="bordercolor">
<tbody><tr>
<td class="titlebg">Forum</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="windowbg">
<!-- #PORTAL_BLOCK_ID(2,0,0)# -->
<!-- #PORTAL_BLOCK_ID(7,0,0)# -->
<!-- #PORTAL_BLOCK_ID(9,0,0)# -->
<br /></td>
</tr></tbody></table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<!-- #PORTAL_SMFTEMPLATE_main_bottom()# -->
Ensure that it is activated
Create an assigment called "frontpage"
Assignment name = "frontpage"
Site area = "frontpage"
Wrappers = "frontpage"
Create your own blocks, content and message blocks and you're away
I did all this, and I am still not seeing any of the portal?
http://www.tooraad.com/smf
help?
Quote from: MunchaenUSF on September 20, 2004, 12:25:47 PM
I did all this, and I am still not seeing any of the portal?
http://www.tooraad.com/smf
help?
QuoteThis is your custom 404 "Not found" Error page. This page is displayed whenever a file that a web browser requests is not found on your website.
If you would like to change this page, edit the file "404.html" in your "www" dir.
Important!!!!
If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, please read this important article about "404" pages. It will save you a lot of frustration!
Force IE5 to display your 404 and not its own (http://www.plinko.net/404/custom.asp#ie)
You may also wish to read this article:
click here for Microsoft Knowledge Base article (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q218/1/55.asp)
He removed the stuff man, thats why it comes up that way now.
Well mine's now up on my main site sportsbike forum (http://www.sportsbike.cc)
includes a choice of 5 aquamania themes and a semi themed coppermine gallery.
Seems to work very well.
A quick tutorial
These files are a bit of a mishmash of file versions as Yauws only supports version beta 5, also at this stage these files will show version as RC2, modify as necessary.
This will set up some initial blocks and content to get you started.
1) install smf RC1 - check that it works
upgrade to RC2 (if you can) - check that it works
2) Download the Yauws portal here (http://www.smf.yauws.com/forum/index.php?topic=69&PHPSESSID=8d1268cc62c68ed08a2ebbcbdad51289)
3) In the Yauws package delete the folder "forum"
4) Upload the remaining Yauws items to your site (not in the same folder as SMF)
5) Copy your SMF Settings.php to the Yauws folder
6) Open portal_config (in portal root) and change the following to your site paths ..
Quote$portal['smf_path'] = '/home/mysite/public_html/forum/';
$portal['home_dir'] = '/home/mysite/public_html/';
$portal['home_url'] = 'http://www.mysite.com/';
$portal['home_name'] = 'Mysitename';
7) Copy your modified portal_config.php to your forum root (where SSI.php is)
(8> run the portal install.php (it will install to your SMF database)
9) Download my modified files here (http://www.jupiterinfo.com/downloads/forum.tar.gz)
10) Upload these files into their respective SMF directories replacing any existing files (save the originals 1st)
**Ignore the aquamania index.template.php unless using these themes**
11) Go to the portal index.php in your browser and check if it's working, it should just be showing the forum header and menu etc at this stage.
**Ensure your database is backed up**
12) If you have access to phpMyAdmin run "__tutorial-SQL__.sql" (found in my download) on your database. Then go back to the portal index.php, you should now see my content and some blocks.
13) Go to the portal admin.php (in the root of the portal) and play around.
Done
Thunderace,
Thanks for posting the tutorial. I'd like to give it a try but I get a "Error reading header.." error on your forum.tar.tar archive - would you mind checking that archive?
Thanks,
John
Where do you get an error Slack?
Please don't redistribute RC2 files... :/.
-[Unknown]
Quote from: Thunderace on September 28, 2004, 05:34:29 PM
Where do you get an error Slack?
Opening the .tar file.
No redistribution here - I've got a test site at bloozbox.com
Thanks,
Unknown it says RC2 but it's not the only RC2 file is index.english
should I delete?
I guess if it's just the language file it's fine...
-[Unknown]
Ok m8 sorry
re: problems with the archive
try the zip here (http://www.jupiterinfo.com/downloads/forum.zip)
Thanks Ace, got it. I'm leaving town pretty soon - but if I have any success, I'll report back.
Thanks again.
I followed the install to step 8 and get this:
Houston, we have a problem here.
Ummm. I need the forum's Settings.php file to run you know.
You have two choices here:
1) Copy that file to this directory
2) Set $portal['smf_path'] in portal_config.php correctly.
I have done both and changed permissions on the file. Any ideas? I really would like to install this and more legitimize the original Author by using his work and giving credit where it's due..
If $portal['smf_path'] is right it should work or try here (http://smf.yauws.com/forum/index.php?topic=85.0)
Thanks Thunderace
Hello nice people, friends and fair-coders of this community...
I had been looking out for the official SMF Add-On ever since it had first been announced in the news section and just today I did PM David before I even noticed this post, I had overlooked...
First of all I want to thank Kevin for his great work (which I haven't seen yet) and tell him that I fully sympathize with him.
This guy did a terrible thing and I would never use his portal over yours. I was waiting for the Official SMF Add-On and would never use the Official SMF Rip-Off.
I am all with you Kevin_MIP.
I also think Packman replied very gracefully and intelligently to Kevin_MIP's post.
This said I find myself in the position when I must decide if I should use Mambo or if I should install Yauws.
- My understanding is that Yauws is still in beta, is this correct?
- Does it work with SMF 1.0 RC2?
- Will it be further developed now that Kevin_MIP has come out and can count on the developing and testing support of all of us? Or will/was development dropped?
- Can somebody enlighten me as to how it compares to Mambo?
If you could answer these questions I'd be very glad.
Thanks for your help.
Mambo is not fully integrated to my knowledge (??) so I have stopped working with it unless or until it becomes so (Unless I dont know about it) [Fully integrated meaning when someone logs into mambo, they are logged ino my forum.
I too will work on Kevins again here in a couple days. All valid questions concerns I'd say.
I thought that Mambo DOES have an integrated user backend... Can somebody using Mambo confirm whether it is or is not integrated (same user log in etc)?
You can follow the progress here:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=6344.0
re: Mambo...
look at the thread in previous post. Ortsio has done a very nice job creating a bridge. In essence it replaces the Mambo login module. When used, the user is logged in both to Mambo and SMF. I was testing it and it works very nicely. And he continues to improve it I think, possibly in terms of making it even easier to use or install, but it's basically a matter of copying a couple files into your Mambo and SMF installations, and then installing a component and a module in Mambo.. and it's done.
Sorry to hear that, Kevin. I really despise people who try to take credit for other people's work, especially when a lot of time and effort has gone into it.
If I were you, I think I'd release it and, if you're sure you have the proof you need to discredit this thief, make a very clear statement with the release to that effect, naming him and shaming him. Then sit back and wait for him to sue you for libel, at which point the truth will out.
Of course the decision is completely up to you, and I can imagine that you're feeling stressed out and pissed off with the whole thing by now, so I wouldn't blame you if you can't be arsed either :)