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Phorum module

Name: phorum
Type: Phorum module
Compatible: Phorum 5.2+
Last update: 2009-02-13
Copyright: moovum
License: GPL 2.0

This is a Phorum module extension (so not a Joomla! module!) that enables bi-directional user management and also bi-directional single sign on between your Joomla! and your Phorum installation.

Along with the Joomla! plugin it provides the following logic:

Bi-directional user login and logout. This means that when a user logs into Joomla, it also logs you into Phorum. This also works the other way around, logging into Phorum will log you into Joomla. Logout logic works the same.
Bi-directional user management. When you create/update/delete a user in Joomla! it will be also created in Phorum. Only those fields that are used in both systems will be used (obviously). The same logic works also from within Phorum, a password change will also be implemented in Joomla (as with change of username and mail address).
New user registration logic of Phorum also works towards Joomla! The user account will only be accessible from within Joomla! after the user has confirmed the registration mail (if configured).

To install the phorum module, just unpack the zipfile, configure and enable. The only fields you need are the absolute path to the Joomla! installation, and a default group assignment for new users within Joomla!

To have it all working, you also need to upgrade the Joomla plugin to version 1.1. If you use the 1.0 version, you will suffer a login/user update recursion problem.

Please read the detailed instructions before you start using this Phorum module.

To use this Phorum module you first need to install it. Just unzip the package, install it in the Phorum module directory, configure it and as last step enable the module. During configuration you only need to configure two settings:

Absolute path to your Joomla! installation. Make sure this path is set properly, else you could end up with a non working Phorum installation.
Default user access level. These are the Joomla! user groups that are defined by default. Make sure you don't set this to a high access level...all your new user will then be able to manage the Joomla! site!

There are 1 comments posted.

Re: Recursion problem with rglob and circular symlinks

# 1 - Posted by: Sean Phelan on 2009-04-07 03:32:48

I rewrote the rglob function in settings.php to handle circular symlinks.

In short, I keep a list of processed realpath directories, and don't process the same one twice.

This cuts off circular symlinks.

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function rglob($pattern='*', $flags = 0, $path='', $asaPathsProcessed = array())

{

echo "PATH=$path"; #dbg

$paths=glob($path.'*', GLOB_MARK|GLOB_ONLYDIR|GLOB_NOSORT);

$files=glob($path.$pattern, $flags);

foreach ($paths as $path)

{

$realpath = realpath($path);

echo "REALPATH=$realpath";

if (!$asaPathsProcessed[$realpath] )

{

$asaPathsProcessed[$realpath] = 1;

$files=array_merge($files,rglob($pattern, $flags, $path, $asaPathsProcessed));

}

return $files;

}

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