Joomla and SMF - I just plain GIVE UP....

[profotograf]

This has been the most frustrating experience of my life.

I have a brand new Joomla setup, and cannot find the SMF-Joomla bridge anymore because the Joomla folk are arguing about some stupid junk.... JoomlaHacks is dead in the water, login over there is impossible, and no one seems to answer help questions about getting SMF and Joomla to work together.

I cannot use Joomla 1.5 because the store software VirtueMart isn't ready for it yet, and its still unstable; no one has made a non-hacked forum that works well except for SMF, which I have been using successfully on 2 other Joomla installations, but that was back when I had the older bridges and they are still the legacy bridges that were installed long ago...

I don't have the old installers or the older versions of Joomla or the SMF version from back then which worked with the old bridges, and have no idea what to do now.

I normally never use the "if it doesn't work, simply take a BIG HAMMER to it" method.  But I am so frustrated with the entire online community surrounding Joomla and SMF I don't know what else to do.

My site must be up and selling by November 15th, or I am in big trouble.

I won't have a forum, so my users won't be able to communicate, unless I stick the forum into a wrapper, and they have to login separately.  They will ****** moan and complain to no end because of this.

Can anyone help me???

Is there ever going to be a solution to this Joomla-SMF bridging issue???

Antonio
PoserAddicts.com / hxxp:digitalmales.com [nonactive]

[Kindred]

no. Without some major re-alignment on one side or the other, there will never be another official Joomla-SMF bridge.

I suggest that you take a look at Mambo and the SMF bridge released for that.

[profotograf]

Is Mambo a different CMS entirely??? I thought Joomla was built out of Mambo...?

I have separated my SMF from Joomla completely.  Put it inside a Wrapper and will let the users login for the forums separately if they don't want to its their problem, not mine.

Amazingly enough, Joomla also uses SMF and doesn't bridge it either... which to me is wierd in itself!

I figured they would be super happy to work together with SMF to create an official Joomla-SMF bridge without all the bull******.  Amazing that bull****** rules over common sense nowadays... whatever happened to working together to create great products that worked seamlessly together???  Guess its a sign of the times...

Greetz,
Antonio
PoserAddicts.com / hxxp:digitalmales.com [nonactive]

[青山 素子]

Is Mambo a different CMS entirely??? I thought Joomla was built out of Mambo...?

Mostly correct. Joomla! forked from Mambo back during some drama about Miro ownership of Mambo and the like. The internals of Joomla! 1.0.x are quite close to Mambo because of this. Joomla! 1.5 is completely different, enough that it should have been called 2.0.

If you are used to Joomla! 1.0, Mambo will be very familiar. Of course, it is always a good time to re-evaluate all the different CMS solutions out there and see what they offer.

I figured they would be super happy to work together with SMF to create an official Joomla-SMF bridge without all the bull******.  Amazing that bull****** rules over common sense nowadays... whatever happened to working together to create great products that worked seamlessly together???  Guess its a sign of the times...

We tried working it with them, but their position wouldn't and couldn't budge. They don't have complete copyright over their codebase, so they can't grant an exemption (all contributors would have to agree, and tracking them all down would be a massive undertaking). With how they detail their understanding of the GPL, the bridge with the functionality it had would need to be GPL, and thus SMF itself.

[sNiTcH]

oh that answers my post on joomla-SMF... ill better use mambo instead of joomla. if we have Mambo and the SMF bridge.. then ill go for mambo.