Is it possible to integrate aMember with Joomla and then also with some sort of forum software so that I can build an all inclusive membership site with content and forums?
Fireboard is a forum extension you can add to Joomla. Or you can also integrate PHPBB3 or vBulletin. David
What is the best way to intergrate vbulletin?? I Have joomla and amember working together via the amember joomla plugin. Should I buy the vbulletin plugin for amember, or install the plugin for joomla for vbulletin??
The only issue I've seen with this is single login integration. When the user logs into joomla, an amember session is created, but they are not really logged into amember. Therefore, not really logged into bulletin yet. to remedy this, you do a redirect link from joomla to amember to vbulletin. <a href=" /amember/login.php?amember_redirect_url=/forum/">forum</a> This logs you into amember, then redirects to the forum. This may also be true for the reverse- vbulletin to joomla. I'm not sure how the vbulletin plugin for joomla works. David
A few years ago I worked on a Joomla/aMember/vBulletin project. I seem to remember that if you use aMember's Joomla and vBulletin plugins, you will have an easy go of it. You'll use aMem's Joomla plugin on your Joomla site for members to login. This will log them into aMember, which logs them into both Joomla and vBulletin. aMem will also ensure you don't have duplicate user names. If a visitor logs directly into your vBulletin forum, they won't be logged into Joomla (so disable logging directly into the forum to disable this). vBulletin is an excellent forum application. But I would suggest you really look at Fireboard and consider using it. It's free, it's a native Joomla component, and can do most of what vBulletin can do. If you really need the advanced features of vBulletin, you should then consider using a Joomla/vBulletin bridge (or SMF or even phpbb) and not aMember's vBulletin plugin.