Advice needed About Bridging

[higherauthority]

OK for years I have been using Joomla 1.012 + Smf 1.1X + The Bridge 1.1.7  I set these up using separate databases

And I know that the Bridge is no longer available. I have been dragging my feet to convert to Mambo. I have been testing it and  I have had issues with the WYSIWYG editor and mambo seems to really lack options and support. 

I'm thinking now I can really get away with getting away from the bridge. I think I have adjusted operation so I really don't need my smf users to have any kind of access to joomla. I do use some of the Joomla features like the nav bar at the top and the automated publishing but I  am the only one who makes changes to the content. 

So Can I just run SMF wrapped in a wrapper and add just a basic login box using SSI that I can display in a HTML or php module?

I really don't need the users to synchronize between Joomla and SMF.

[Orstio]

The Mambo/Joomla wrapper components are iframes.  Iframes eat babies after midnight.

I would (unofficially, of course) suggest you check out SJSB.  Although the licensing situation is precarious, it has clean coding and is the best integration currently available for Joomla.

[ilwoody]

I'm thinking now I can really get away with getting away from the bridge. I think I have adjusted operation so I really don't need my smf users to have any kind of access to joomla. I do use some of the Joomla features like the nav bar at the top and the automated publishing but I  am the only one who makes changes to the content. 

So Can I just run SMF wrapped in a wrapper and add just a basic login box using SSI that I can display in a HTML or php module?

I really don't need the users to synchronize between Joomla and SMF.

Yes I believe you should give a try to SJSB and see how it works for you. Honestly, I think its pretty good at providing a wrapper for SMF inside Joomla without any kind of user synchronization. Now it supports that too but its just an option that often its not really needed.

SJSB also comes with a wrapper for SSI functions (ie the login box) and a feature to show different Joomla modules to different SMF users (ie moderator, admin, guest ..).

Just my 2 cents selling my baby

I would (unofficially, of course) suggest you check out SJSB.  Although the licensing situation is precarious, it has clean coding and is the best integration currently available for Joomla.

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