The JoomlaHacks Joomla-SMF Forum(JSMF) Bridge is intended to be used with Joomla Content Management System(J!) and Simple Machines Forum(SMF). The bridge integrates these two pieces of software allowing one login, registration, and user modification point for both systems. The JoomlaHacks bridge goes one step further and adds full integration with Community Builder (CB) using a CB plugin and allows the use of a wide array of logins. In addition, this bridge allows a choice of Personal Message Systems to be used with the integration.
The JoomlaHacks JSMF project not only includes the bridge but also many optional modules and mambots. One of the modules is a login module that has optional features like avatar display, multiple SMF related links, and ability to add additional links. Another module is the recent topics which will display your most recent SMF topics on your Joomla frontpage. You can even use XTHML compliant marquee-like scrolling for your recent topics. The final module is a who’s online replacement that optionally displays users in their SMF membergroup colors and works with Flashchat.
In addition to the modules the project includes a mambot, the SMF discussbot, which will create new topics from your content. This can be setup to automatically create a new topic or only when a user wishes to discuss the article.
Brat graciously donated the code base for the CB SMF plugins to the JoomlaHacks project and I have since reworked them to be optimized for JSMF. These plugins will add tabs to your CB profile to show SMF info, SMF posts, SMF signature, and SMF profile information. Many thanks to Brat for this, great work!
Finally, the project writes several plugins to integrate with other third party components. This includes the plugin for Community Builder which provides full integration with CB. New to version 2.0 is a Joomap plugin to allow a sitemap to be built from your SMF boards, categories, and topics.
This version of the JoomlaHacks JSMF bridge marks a significant step forward in full integration with SMF and CB. This step could not have been reached without the help and support of many of our users on the JoomlaHacks Forums but most importantly my test team. Thanks to them this bridge is continuing to improve.
Thanks to the entire community for your support through help, code contributions, requests for features, and especially donations! You all make this fun for me!
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| Still the best SMF bridge around by deebee, June 14, 2008 |
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I've been using this bridge for the last 3 years now & have just upgraded to Joomla 1.0.15 and SMF 1.1.4 - it works like a dream. The index.php patching is now automatic and can be unpatched if needed. The synchronisation just does what it should do.
Oh, & it's free. Nice work. |
| Doesn't work with latest versions by arron, April 21, 2008 |
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I can't get it to work with the latest Joomla 1.0.15 and SMF 1.1.4. Now SMF discontinued the official Joomla bridge on their website. This is the only alternative. Is this meant to work with the latest versions? |
| Doesn't work by mhd911, February 25, 2008 |
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0 of 1 people find this review helpful:
I downloaded it and and cannot install it |
| Screws up SMF modules by sjoe, January 15, 2008 |
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After installing the component just so I could get the SMF ajax poll to work, my SMF Latest Topics/Posts and SMF Top Topics won't work; they give me warning messages. And I can't find a recent posts module on the Joomlahacks site even though people say it's there. It doesn't help that their site is so dang slow. |
| It does not link correctly by mkelly66, December 21, 2007 |
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1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
Unfortunately I have to agree with a previous reviewer ( Sebastyne) who left a review on September 26.
I essentially have the same problem he had.
I installed Joomla and added the CB (Community Builder) module. Then I installed SMF in a subdirectory (/forum). And finally the Joomla-SMF Bridge.
Everything seems fine and the Joomla and SMF user databases synch without a problem. The hitch is that when you log in to Joomla and then click a link to the SMF forum it not only does not log the user in to SMF but also logs them out of Joomla!
I tried all the different combinations of options I could think of, but nothing has worked. So after two frustrating days of working almost exclusively on this problem (including two fresh installs of everything) it looks like I'll have to give up on the bridge and SMF and go with a forum built for Joomla.
Final note
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I installed Joomla in a subdirectory of my site (/v3)
and SMF in a subdirectory of the Joomla install (/v3/forum) |
| Couldn't Install by ewillison, October 16, 2007 |
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1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
I tried for five days to install this forum, but sadly I could not make it run. I asked questions on the SMF forum, and when I still didn't understand and mentioned that the manual they kept referring me to was to vague, they marked my Kara points down for it. NOT A NICE COMMUNITY for "average Joe" website builders! So I dumped it, and went with Fireboard. Fireboard loaded on the first try, and I installed a few more plug-ins with no problems as well. If only I loaded Fireboard first. I would have saved me some headaches. |
| Unfortunately it just won't work. by Sebastyne, September 26, 2007 |
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6 of 6 people find this review helpful:
I L-O-V-E SMF. I love Joomla. I would love to have them work together, but it just doesn't seem to happen. I have tried different combinations of bridges and SMF versions, I even went all the way down to (a fresh installation of) version RC2 as the latest bridge claimed to work with at least that one. It's a no go, login problems persist. It logs out users from the login page and there's no return. (It looks to install right at first, but try closing the browser and returning after it, to see if it works before going through a lot of trouble setting up boards. You'll still be able to get back to Admin, even if you won't be able to log on the site.)
I am using Community Builder as well, which might be the issue here, even though the bridge should support CB as well. Just to those of you who doubt me, a copy paste from my installation on the bridge about -page:
"This component is intended for use with the following versions:
Joomla 1.0.x+
Mambo 4.5.2+
Simple Machines Forum 1.1RC2+
Community Builder 1.0+
Version Information:
Your Joomla version is: 1.0.13
Your SMF version is: 1.1 RC2
Your Joomla-SMF version: 2.0.2
Latest Joomla-SMF version: 2.0"
The good thing is, it uninstalls easily.
To add to the problem, the support forum of the bridge is hmmm... not supportive. Their website is a mess, it doesn't give you information on which bridge version to use with which forum version, and their own version names conflict with the forum version. (Assuming that Joomla-SMF RC2 would work with SMF RC2 seems to be too much to assume.) If you politely ask about it, they will bitch to you and treat you like you were the stupidest & rudest person alive. What it looks like from here, their attitude is that THEY don't make mistakes, and if you can't get it to work, it's an user end issue and not their problem. The huge amount of people having a problem on their support forum are just sent away with bitching, not their problem!
So... I beg of you, would someone ELSE try building a bridge here? |
| Wow, THAT was easy... by kaizen, August 3, 2007 |
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I've stayed away from SMF for awhile, in part to support other developers (FireBoard) and to steer clear of any GPL issues with other bridges.
But this solution is fully GPL Compliant and went in like a breeze. It literally works out of the box and was no trouble at all to install. Directions and steps are cleraly indicated and the process was absooutely painless.
If you've been dreading a bridge install, this is your answer. I haven't tried the CB support yet, but that is yet another plus in this component's favor.
Nice job, JSMF Team!! |
| Not Bad by JRW, April 10, 2007 |
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1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
I have to admit, it would be no mean feat to grab tags from Joomla, SMF and CB, and attempt to tie them all in together. I for one am very happy with this extension, and have to say that my site would not have anywhere near the same level of integration without it.
Is it flawless? well, no its not. There are a few little bugs, particularly in the CB side of things. BUT I have to say that the component does work and it certainly works well enough for me to be using it on my site.
Set up a test site and give it a go, and you will see whats possible when you are fully integrated! |
| Smooth installation transitions to nightmare of bugs. by eexchange, March 18, 2007 |
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1 of 2 people find this review helpful:
The idea of a simple single sign-on for a three-way between Joomla, CB, and SMF was like a dream come true. After working my way through the odd navigation choice for the site I finally had the files I needed. The well written step-by-step instructions walked me through the process and after about an hour of messing around there was SMF...
...or so I thought. The one thing I really wanted was to avoid having users sign in more than once per visit. Instead of this convenience I wound up with a bridge which behaves unpredictably and still will not synchronize l/p.
Wolverine/Joomlahacks take note: If you want users to pay for donationware you should keep the script in RC until all these bugs are fixed. I'd of dropped $10-20 for the work done to make a hassle-free bridge. |
| Very Poor by clairecutler, March 5, 2007 |
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4 of 7 people find this review helpful:
Sadly, when i installed this it made all my content disappear from my website. The first time it happened I wasn't sure if it was that component or something else I was doing but when I reinstalled Joomla and then it happened for a second time there was no doubt. Luckily, its a new site I am working on. It doesn't bear thinking about if it was a fully developed fully functioning site! |
| does as it says on the tin by sarena, February 15, 2007 |
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I needed a forum and looked at the different options available, smf was one i had used before on another project so naturaly that took priority, then it was finding a bridge, out of the two available I chose this one primarily for the sitemap function, enabling me to get my whole forum in my google sitemap although since installing it (took 2 mins) have now added community builder into the mix, took less than five mins to get everything working together, and im reciving a lot of positive feedback from my users which is what its all about
so definatley worth looking at |
| Amazing by Flipsider, February 15, 2007 |
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Unfortunetly I'm not that much of a big reviewer so Ill just keep it short.
I have been using this simply amazing component since november when I started working on my latest and greatest website.
I have had quite a few problems in the beginning but Wolverine and his testers kept upgrading and fixing all issues within sometimes a week or even a day.
This component MADE me throw away my vBulletin License even though vBulletin is so full of features and modifications that I never thought Id leave it.
What vBulletin doesn't have though, is this PERFECT Joomla AND EVEN Community Builder integration component to make us all even happier even though there might be less forum features!
I am very thankfull for JSMF and the Creators and am giving it a 5/5 because this is the very main component built for my site (along with Community Builder) and if it wouldn't exist, I probably wouldn't have the chance to make my site that great.
Sincerly,
Jordan |
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