SMf Future

[roboter88]

LDAP?
ahhh

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
http://www.openldap.org/

[kegobeer]

@Yardbird:

The only benefit is having one user base instead of two.  The bridge just allows Coppermine to use SMF's user base so your members don't have to re-register on your Coppermine site.  If you don't plan on allowing people to upload pictures/files to your Coppermine gallery, or restricting access to certain albums, then you don't really need to bridge the two together.

[packman]

Problem then is that you can end up shooting about 50% or more of your general users (as forum software goes at least) in the legs.  Not everyone has access to LDAP.

It's true that most people don't have access to LDAP today, but at least it's an existing standard that allows extensible user records to be stored/retreived in a secure way and that's a lot of what people seem to be asking for at the moment.

There are Open Source LDAP systems around and it probably wouldn't be too difficult to build a simple MySQL based LDAP-lite (if you can have a Lite Lightweight system!) for people who don't want the complexity of setting up a huge installation.

[roboter88]

I would really love to see a gallery mod or ported coppermine for SMF

Coppemine comes with a bridge file that works with SMF.  It allows Coppermine to use your SMF users instead of the system that Coppermine uses by default.  Then it's just a matter of designing a Coppermine theme that matches your SMF theme.  Check out my site, I use SMF and Coppermine together.  The only limitation right now is the inability to use SMF's SSI.php file from within Coppermine, but the next release fixes that.

How or where i get this Hack/MOD you using on your site which displayes the last gallery additions?


Found

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=13450.0

Much thanks for your work it works just fine.
btw wht is the better sollution now? SSI or without ? I use the 1st...


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[kegobeer]

btw wht is the better sollution now? SSI or without ?

I'm not sure exactly what you mean.  If you are talking about the mod I made that displays the latest images, the SSI version is much better.  You might want to download the version I posted on my site - I made some changes to the original code to improve it.

[roboter88]

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=13450.15

[Anguz]

[Unknown] wrote an SMF API to facilitate integration with other scripts. You can find it in Converters and Tools section of the Downloads page.

http://www.simplemachines.org/download.php?converters

Also, I may start writting some stuff to have a blog, gallery, articles and other things using SMF, just SMF. It can't get more integrated than that. They'd be kinda basic most of the time, but could be improved with mods too. I just don't have any idea when I'll do this though, but I've worked out most of it in my head already.