The fact that this, being an alpha release, has had ZERO bugs worth notice compared to the massive number of problems I had with jvbPlugin makes it a vastly better product even considering the current lack of many features. The ease of installation is only a thousand times easier than that of jvbPlugin, too. And JFusion is free :)

I've installed this on my Joomla 1.5 RC4 instalation along with SMF 1.1.4 and it works exceptionally.

User sync both ways is a much needed feature but from what I've heard its on its way in a future release. A few other minor features need to be added but I believe they are on their way too.

For an alpha release, it's a great extension!

I was so happy yesterday when I tried it, that I almost cried! I will still be anxiously waiting for the user sync. feature so possibly using Community Builder will become possible, but just being able to FINALLY combine SMF with Joomla is just wonderful. :)

Ok, i've done a quick test with smf and - it works !
The idea is brilliant and if this bridging solution is OK with OSM then this is our baby ;)
Keep goin..

Owner's reply:
Yes JFusion respects the licenses of softwares. Th FSF has told me that JFusion is compatible with non-GPL licensed softwares such as SMF. Cheers, Marius

We initially wanted to use Joomla a year ago, but our whole site is based around vBulletin 3.6.8 and we have substantial workflow driven by the vB profile fields and registration process. The previous duo-synch bridge was very flaky and left us feeling that we'd get stranded with a split site at the next upgrade of either side.

Fast forward to a couple days ago when I saw that J!1.5 was finally out and started looking at extensions. And I found JFusion, which is so *exactly* what we need it's amazing. Using the vB user tables as the authentication system for Joomla suits us perfectly, and it's a true testament to the greatly improved design of 1.5 that the switch over is as clean and surgical as it is!

We had a couple minor blips installing and getting JFusion running, but as it's still in Alpha, that's pretty freaking incredible. Not only does it WORK, but it works cleanly, and well! And it's still early days. Great extension with great potential and top notch support, the answers to just about everything I needed was in the forum.

JFusion *is* the reason we're back in the Joomla arena. 5 Stars + from us!

James

Pros: It works! In Alpha, allowing login between test 1.5RC4 with vB 3.68. Considering that this is an alpha I should have given 5 stars.

Cons: None really considering this is an early Alpha of a highly desired integration. It take several attempts to get the configuration just right with VB.

I look forward to the continued development of what has been long sought by people wanting to leverage arguably the best CMS out there with arguably the best forums out there.

Well, I installed this bridge in my Joomla 1.5 and phpBB3.0. I use JFusion login modul.
Now, I can’t synchronisation the users between systems. I read I can it next version. It’s ok.
But… When I swicth off the joomla users plugin in the joomla admin then I can’t login in admin such as administrator.
What I have to give the link in the menü to I login in the phpBB, because now it isn’t operate.
Thank you!

zseni

Owner's reply:
Yes user synchronisation will be part of the next version as stated.



Uninstalling is as easy as unpublishing both the user and authorisation plugin and republishing the Joomla ones. Sounds like you forgot one of them. Now you will need an mySQL editor to republish the Joomla plugins.