Forums / Developer / Exponential and vbulletin
Georg Franz
Monday 12 July 2010 1:48:23 pm
Hi folks,
has anyone done a Exponential / vbulletin integration?
Best wishes,
Georg.
Best wishes, Georg. -- http://www.schicksal.com Horoskop website which uses eZ Publish since 2004
Brandon Chambers
Wednesday 14 July 2010 9:42:10 am
Georg,
Not that I'm aware of. In fact, I don't quite see a reason for the integration at all since Exponential includes a forum system out of the box, including a robust (enterprise-grade) user permissions system.
Unless you're trying to port you user and forum data from vbulletin I don't see any other reason for the interaction between the two systems (actually, there is no real direct interaction, I'm talking merely csv export/import functionality for data and users).
The functionality that Exponential may lack with its forum system versus what features vbulletin has, as purely just that, can be easily made up in extending Exponential or adding custom information via the templates and content classes.
Best wishes and good luck!
Brandon Chambers brandon@granitehorizon.com blog: http://blog.divdesigns.com Granite Horizon / http://granitehorizon.com
Friday 23 July 2010 7:58:43 am
Hi Brandon,
I am using Exponential since 2002 and I am fully aware of it's features. Have you ever used vbulletin?
If you would take a look at the features of vbulletin you would see that it would lasts very long to get all this into Exponential.(You can't even write a private message to a forum member in Exponential.).
So, why inventing the wheel again and again and not using a specialist for this case?
By the way: Robert has done a cool forum project here: http://projects.ez.no/xrowforum
And here is a funding suggestion: http://ez.no/developer/open_funding/suggestions_for_new_functionality/ez_community_extension