PhpBB is definitely one of my favorite open source projects ever. Because its open sourced with the GPL, a huge modding community has emerged full of people molding the forum software in to what they want it to be. Its pretty common for people to add on their own stuff, like spam filters or ways to post YouTube videos…
For the iswapyou forums we had already created our own profiles, and wanted phpBB to recognize and link to them. So what I did was take out all links to the phpBB profiles and substitute links to iswapyou’s profiles. Simple mod, really. It made sense for us because we were adding phpBB in to a site that already had its own set of user information that was used to create a site profile.
Click here to view the mod. (I wanted to post it here, but it looked really, really ugly).
This was tested using phpBB 2.0.21. Iswapyou profile pages are in “../findUser.php?findName=$username”, where $username is the users phpBB username. If you use this method you will need to change this wherever you see it in the code to however your site or software displays profiles.
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