# Rails with PHPBB forums... How to do it

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-with-phpbb-forums-how-to-do-it/132009>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 15, 2008, 6:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-with-phpbb-forums-how-to-do-it/132009 "2008-03-15T06:45:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![rahil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ebca7d/32.png) [@rahil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rahil)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 6:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-with-phpbb-forums-how-to-do-it/132009/1 "2008-03-15T06:45:33Z")

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Hi,

I like Ruby on rails for my web development, and I like PHPBB forums as  
well.

I think wordpress, Jhoomla and PHPBB forms are the best thing happed to  
PHP community.

And Rails is the best inspiration for all.

I would just like to icorporate PHP and wordpress inside my Rails  
website.

I will be using MySQl as my database.

I wonder if anyone has implemented it with a smooth functioning. If yest  
then pl. guide me more on this.

I am sure, many would like to go this way.

Pl. do not suggest us to use Ruby CMS and Ruby Forums. I want something  
more elegant

Thanks

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**Author:** ![rahil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ebca7d/32.png) [@rahil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rahil)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 9:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-with-phpbb-forums-how-to-do-it/132009/2 "2008-03-15T09:40:10Z")

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There are plenty of Rails alternatives to forums. There’s El Dorado for  
one,  
Beast too. I’m also developing my own forum “software” if you would like  
to  
try it out, it’s at [GitHub - radar/rboard: A fully featured forum system compatible with Rails 2.3](http://github.com/radar/rboard)

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Rahil K. \<  
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> Pl. do not suggest us to use Ruby CMS and Ruby Forums. I want something  
> more elegant
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**Author:** ![rahil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ebca7d/32.png) [@rahil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rahil)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-with-phpbb-forums-how-to-do-it/132009/3 "2008-03-17T17:24:06Z")

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> I like Ruby on rails for my web development, and I like PHPBB forums as  
> well. I think wordpress, Jhoomla and PHPBB forms are the best thing  
> happed to PHP community. And Rails is the best inspiration for all. I  
> would just like to icorporate PHP and wordpress inside my Rails website.  
> I will be using MySQl as my database. I wonder if anyone has  
> implemented it with a smooth functioning. If yest then pl. guide me more  
> on this. I am sure, many would like to go this way. Pl. do not suggest  
> us to use Ruby CMS and Ruby Forums. I want something more elegant

My advice would be to look at something other than phpbb. I’ve done it.  
It isn’t fun. I did it with 2.x (don’t recall which version) so maybe  
it’s gotten better, but the only way to integrate the two were some ugly  
hacks to create the appropriate database records in the forum database  
on  
user signup (our users are in our website, not in our forums) and then  
to  
hack up all the login/logout pages of the forums to make cookies work.  
It  
makes upgrading a real pain.

Also, our forum moderators can’t stand phpbb. For what that’s worth.

What I don’t understand is why every forum app out there assumes the  
users  
will be in _its_ database. Seems none of them ship with login hooks  
allowing you to easily authenticate against some external resource.  
_sigh_

Maybe that’s all changed in newer releases, but if it hasn’t, I’d advise  
you to look at something else.

-philip