Comments on: Installing Fireboard in Joomla 1.5

By: JennyPrincessX

JennyPrincessX — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:17:35 +0000

Hi there!

I’m new to the forum so I just wanted to say hi to everone!

By: Johan Cyprich

Johan Cyprich — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:24:48 +0000

I think it would be best to use phpBB. There will be a bridge for Joomla soon, and its one of the best forum applications in spite of certain problems that it has.

By: magnum

magnum — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:31:20 +0000

whats your take on IPB 1.3 vs. phpbb 3.0, I am still not happy with phpbb and fireboard,eventhough i have installed all the three, i want to keep only one of them.
I am seriously confused. I once had a great forum with IPB 1.3, but once my server crashed i was unable to recover any details, your help on choosing 1 among the forums will be appreciated, ofcourse i will make the final decision but i am just collecting advices from everybody before making the final move.

By: Johan Cyprich

Johan Cyprich — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:33:51 +0000

Hi magnum. You can create a custom theme in Fireboard that matches the Invision forum layout.

You might consider using phpBB. Eventually, there will be a bridge between Joomla and phpBB.

By: magnum

magnum — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:55:35 +0000

Thx Johan, I did it so easily in the end, thx for you help any ways.

Unlike Joomla , fireboard seems confusing, i have used ipb,invision and v-bulletion but this one seems very confusing. Will I be able to create a forum similar to invision.

By: Johan Cyprich

Johan Cyprich — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:58:48 +0000

Fireboard is small enough so that you can install it from Joomla. You’ll have to uncompress the Fireboard zip file and install the component_Fireboard_Forum_1.0.4.zip file in a subfolder in the Versions folder. Don’t try installing the main zip because it won’t work.

By: magnum

magnum — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:11:10 +0000

How should I install fireboard, should i install from joomla or should i upload it to my server with ftp and do it from there, help me pls.

By: Johan Cyprich

Johan Cyprich — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:07:05 +0000

I had problems installing Fireboard as well. I got it to work when I did a clean install with the latest version of Joomla and Fireboard.

I haven’t tried installing Community Builder, but it seems like an interesting application. I’ll try it and write about the results.

If you need help installing Fireboard, I could give you greater assistance if you can let me know what type of web host your using and how you installed each application.

By: Aria

Aria — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:44:19 +0000

Hi,

Wonder if you have any suggestions re: a rather huge problem I have been having trying to integrate fireboard with Joomla… was supposed to be quick and easy but not so.

Fireboard may or may not add a user registered through Joomla to its list, but the great problem is that it does not seem to recognize the user as registered and doesn’t give access to the message board when it is set to “registered users”.

Hope I made the problem clear.

I initially had CB installed along with UddeIM but have since uninstalled those components as the system didn’t seem to integrate one with the other, particularly fireboard which picked up that a user was registered, but did not give access to the categories/forums. A newly registered user saw an empty message board and when ‘view latest post’ was selected got an Error 403 message.

The problem persists now that I have fireboard as the only component.

You mentioned admin.fireboard.zip elsewhere, do you suppose this would be a fix for this situation? Thanks for any ideas you may have on the matter.