[wp-hackers] SMF Integrator (A WordPress 2.2.2 Plugin)

[Stephane Daury]

Quick questions, by curiosity:
- are you using updatable views?
- are they 1 to 1 views or linking to multiple joined tables?

Stephane




On Aug 26, 2007, at 23:00, Curt Woodard wrote:

> Well, I'm very, very close to finishing this off!
>
> What is SMF Integrator? SMF Integrator is a new plug-in for WordPress
> 2.2.2 and SMF 1.1.3.
>
> Features:
>
>     * WordPress and SMF share the SMF user tables. No need to have a
> users table in WordPress any longer (though keeping it with the
> default admin account is a good idea if there are issues). This
> integration is achieved by using features in MySQL version 5 called
> Views. In the most basic sense, fields in the smf_members table are
> mapped to fields in the wp_users database. The result, along with a
> custom user table definition, is that WP thinks the SMF members table
> is it's own!
>     * Due to the above feature ALL SMF members on your forums are now
> able to access WP using the 5 default roles that WP offers. When a
> user logs into WordPress for the first time, their usermeta
> information is set up. But this is only if they were not added from
> WordPress and already exist in SMF...
>     * Administrators who are able to add and update users can do so
> from the WP admin panel. Added/Updated users are immediately available
> in SMF!
>     * Users may update their profiles in WordPress if they have  
> that capability.
>     * SMF membergroups can be tied to specific roles, with the default
> roles of Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, and Subscriber
> already configured with the default SMF membergroups. Administrators
> can change which membergroups belong to which roles via the handy
> option panel.
>     * Via the options panel, admins can update the path of SMF (where
> SSI.php is located), change the name of the MySQL View that the
> plug-in uses, and delete/reassign orphaned posts from WordPress's old
> user table. Of course, if it's left alone, there's no harm or foul...
> But there may be clashes due to the SMF user id's possibly matching
> the WordPress ones...
>     * All features of SMF still work.
>
> I am currently working on:
>
>     * Concurrent login: Logging into WP will log you into SMF.
>     * Self-Registration from WP (I have that feature turned off  
> atm... heh)
>     * Lost/Reset Password requests from WP.
>
>
> Installation is quite simple:
> Make sure that you unzip SMF_Integrator.php into either a directory in
> the wp-content/plugins folder or directly to that folder.
>
> Edit the file to make sure the default option points to your SMF
> directory. Otherwise it will crap out... heh. I know, it defeats the
> purpose of the option, but you won't have to deal with the file again.
> If you happen to move your forum to a different directory, you'll have
> the option to change it.
>
> Then activate the plugin from the plugins panel on the admin page.
> That should be all there is to it. You'll need to log in as yourself
> from SMF, but other than that everything should be cool. Usually, the
> person who is running the forum is also user #1. But if this isn't the
> case, let me know and I'll see about fixing this.
>
> Once I have the above three taken care of, I'll make the plugin
> available for beta testing. The interesting thing is, it's one file
> that goes with WordPress and doesn't modify anything in SMF! Hopefully
> this will be it, but I might have to do some file hacks to get around
> the above issues with WordPress... we'll have to see.
>
> Well, you've officially heard it here, features and all! Let me know
> what you think and what features you'd like to *eventually* see!
>
> Thank you all for your help!
>
> -Ex
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