SMF & WordPress

[waremock]

I got everything to work, however..


How do I make the forum appear in a WP page?

[waremock]

Anyone, please help me. I'm drowning in code.

[Succubus Evaligan]

Hi
I am using SMF 1.1.4 and I have installed WordPress 2.3.2
Are some bridge that works fine with that two?

I want that the WP uses the DB of the SMF.

[Prospero]

I couldn't integrate WordPress 2.3.2 with SMF 1.1.4. It's a pity as I love SMF, but now will probably have to work with phpBB.

I hope someone will be able to update bridge for new versions of both WP an SMF.

[Hj Ahmad Rasyid Hj Ismail]

Just wanted to say hi to all...

I've been very busy and unable to maintain the bridge.  I was hoping to put work into it over Christmas, but I've just been informed by SMF that they have some copyright concerns (as they are not GPL).  Unfortunately, I'm not sure that  it's in my best interest to keep developing/distributing this.  For my own site, I switched to a GPL-licenced bulletin board system that had bridging capabilities with wordpress.  I wasn't happy about this, as SMF is a superior platform.

Anyway, best wishes all.  If people are interested in further developing it, they're more than welcome.

cheers,

Jeff

What a sad ending... I really hope that someone will be interested in continuing this great job.

[wickeddivine]

aargh I just got done installing the current versions of Wordpress and SMF-installed the two plugins and got an error.  Came here for help, only to see the post above me.  I wish he would have updated his download page with that information as well so I didn't have to waste my time......

Is there anything that can be integrated with SMF anymore?  No Wordpress, no Joomla....  It's my favorite forum software, but it's becoming harder and harder to use.

[waremock]

Easy integration is going to be crucial for the survival of any forum program. I am going to be forced to choose the forum which integrates best with Wordpress.


I want to find something that works best with Wordpress and It really upsets me to have to do this because of all the time I have invested to make SMF and Wordpress work properly.

But at the end I'd rather get rid of SMF or have no forum at all instead of finding something different that would integrate with SMF.

[Apostaganha]

Easy integration is going to be crucial for the survival of any forum program. I am going to be forced to choose the forum which integrates best with Wordpress.


I want to find something that works best with Wordpress and It really upsets me to have to do this because of all the time I have invested to make SMF and Wordpress work properly.

But at the end I'd rather get rid of SMF or have no forum at all instead of finding something different that would integrate with SMF.

An integration os smf and wordpress is crucial and urgent!

[FCF iNFERNO]

Just wanted to say hi to all...

I've been very busy and unable to maintain the bridge.  I was hoping to put work into it over Christmas, but I've just been informed by SMF that they have some copyright concerns (as they are not GPL).  Unfortunately, I'm not sure that  it's in my best interest to keep developing/distributing this.  For my own site, I switched to a GPL-licenced bulletin board system that had bridging capabilities with wordpress.  I wasn't happy about this, as SMF is a superior platform.

Anyway, best wishes all.  If people are interested in further developing it, they're more than welcome.

cheers,

Jeff

What a sad ending... I really hope that someone will be interested in continuing this great job.

Bump for the front page, so no one has to go through what I did.

I installed this bridge and plugins and the first time I tried to update the database crashed my forums completely.  No one can log in and it overwrote the names of the users.  In addition, the SMF backup won't work.

I'd search for a COMPLETELY different forum or blogging app.

[Prospero]

This sucks. Why can't two great platforms find a way to be together? No offense, but why did SMF developers have to show that they were not pleased with someone working on a bridge? Did anybody suffer from this?
I just don't get why SMF, being IMO the best message board software, doesn't want to play nice with the best blogging software. Everyone would win.

So far the only people who suffered are WP and SMF users.

I don't have any message board now and I really don't know what to do. I could downgrade to older versions of WP and SMF and use and old bridge, but it's not the right thing to do and can't last forever. I could install Vanilla or PunBB, but they are way too simple for my needs. They only thing left is phpBB, but I don't really like the way it integrates the two scripts.

Damn, everything went so good till now...

[JoshieDaMan]

I wish that SMF has a bridge for wordpress as well.

[Misu]

For all those who are wondering whether this bridge works on WordPress 2.3 (I know... outdated now but a lot of us are still using it), it seems to work fine besides the cookie integration not working very well.  So when you log into WordPress, it doesn't log you into SMF, when you log out, blah blah...

I recently setup a WordPress+SMF Bridge for a client and figured out a work around to this problem.
The problem seems to be that the SMF Bridge (or maybe SMF) is setting its cookies to use .domain.com to allow for subdomain cookies to validate SMF too.  WordPress 2.3 uses hxxp:domain.com [nonactive] as its cookie.  Since the cookies have two different domains, the bridge does not set and unset them properly (and thus you are not logged in our out properly).

The solution is pretty simple.  WordPress is built very pluggable, so all you need to do is tell WordPress that it should setup its cookie to be .domain.com instead of hxxp:domain.com [nonactive], and magic, everything should work in regards to shared logging in and out =D.

To tell WordPress to change what the default cookie domain is, just open up wp-config.php (the file you original modified when you created WordPress with all your database information).

Go to the the line that has:

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define('COOKIEHASH', $cookiehash);
Add another enter and add this line of code

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define('COOKIE_DOMAIN','.domain.com');

Make sure that you replace hxxp:domain.com [nonactive] with your actual domain and that you have the "." in front of your domain name.  That "." is important, as it is what allows all the magic of the bridge to work automatically.

Hopefully this helps anyone still trying to use this bridge.


I haven't tested this in WordPress 2.5 yet, so I can not guarantee it will work with 2.5.  I have also not tested this on any version of WordPress MU, so no guarantees there either.  There may be a possibility that I can release a patched version of the bridge to incorporate this fix automatically, but that will all determine on whether I can find some time to do some more testing  and if I can get jjgallow's approval to use his codebase.

[ccbtimewiz]

http://www.dmry.net/wordpress-smf-bridge-plugin-10

[waremock]

Is anyone planning on making this work again? If not is there an easy way to import smf users into wordpress?

[b4pjoe]

For all those who are wondering whether this bridge works on WordPress 2.3 (I know... outdated now but a lot of us are still using it), it seems to work fine besides the cookie integration not working very well.  So when you log into WordPress, it doesn't log you into SMF, when you log out, blah blah...

I recently setup a WordPress+SMF Bridge for a client and figured out a work around to this problem.
The problem seems to be that the SMF Bridge (or maybe SMF) is setting its cookies to use .domain.com to allow for subdomain cookies to validate SMF too.  WordPress 2.3 uses domain.com as its cookie.  Since the cookies have two different domains, the bridge does not set and unset them properly (and thus you are not logged in our out properly).

The solution is pretty simple.  WordPress is built very pluggable, so all you need to do is tell WordPress that it should setup its cookie to be .domain.com instead of domain.com, and magic, everything should work in regards to shared logging in and out =D.

To tell WordPress to change what the default cookie domain is, just open up wp-config.php (the file you original modified when you created WordPress with all your database information).

Go to the the line that has:

Code Select Expand

define('COOKIEHASH', $cookiehash);
Add another enter and add this line of code

Code Select Expand

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN','.domain.com');

Make sure that you replace domain.com with your actual domain and that you have the "." in front of your domain name.  That "." is important, as it is what allows all the magic of the bridge to work automatically.

Hopefully this helps anyone still trying to use this bridge.


I haven't tested this in WordPress 2.5 yet, so I can not guarantee it will work with 2.5.  I have also not tested this on any version of WordPress MU, so no guarantees there either.  There may be a possibility that I can release a patched version of the bridge to incorporate this fix automatically, but that will all determine on whether I can find some time to do some more testing  and if I can get jjgallow's approval to use his codebase.

I have been using the WP & SMF 1.09 bridge with WP 2.3 and SMF 1.1.4 for quite a while now and today I upgraded WP to 2.5 and everything is still working quite nicely. Also I never experienced the login and logout problem from one to the other you mentioned in your post. If I login in or out from one it does the same at the other one.

[kangkenyot]

If I login in or out from one it does the same at the other one.

OK, my database integration is works well for SMF and WP. No problem at all.

But, currently they're still on different page.
WP on http://www.links2countries.com
SMF on http://www.links2countries.com/forumtraveling

Now, how to make SMF Forum appear on WP 2.5 page with header, footer and widget as per WP 2.5 theme?

Anybody know how to do that?

Please advise.

[rgarrison]

Any plans on making this work with SMF 2.0

[konfusion]

Seems like I'll have to change forums yet again, as support is dropped. First I was using BBPress - but that was much too basic, and mods weren't actively being made at the time. Now I went to SMF, but the support has been dropped... PunBB next...

[Hj Ahmad Rasyid Hj Ismail]

I am currently trying this complicated "thing". J1.0.x + SMF1.1.5 + FlashChat + WordPress (MojoBlog) + Gallery2. Except for Gallery 2, others should work just fine...

[Miyagi]

anyone tried this... ?

http://gumfi.de/wordpress-251-smf-forum-bridge/

I might run a test environment tonight and have a play...