First of all, the new forums looks really ugly, why we need such a forum when when we know already the old forum for years and it is already integrated it, just need a better colors and design and more secure dynamic mods.

1. Less Lines so it doesn't look like box specially with IE.
2. More beautiful colors.
3. Simple and Easy.
4. The Letters should be a little bit bigger than now.
5. Secure the old mods and validate them xhml
6. CSS Bottons with colors.
7. Paypal Buttons.

Note: I do know lots of secutity issues found out in phpbb2 but even like that we know it for years.
This is just my opinions about phpbb3 but the bridge was really nice.

Phpbb2 has been secured in RavenNuke. Many styles are available for both 2 and 3. The main issue with phpbb2 is that it is not being updated and for all practical purposes, it is a dead project.

The great thing about a phpbb3 bridge is that it can be updated super fast when newer versions are released as opposed to a port that would take much longer to release updates. Future bridges will include better sharing of user data between the two systems.

The phpbb3 project is going in a different direction with future releases that will require a totally different bridge to work with any CMS. Until they release a new phpbb3, very little will be done on bridges since they are basically doing a totally new phpbb3.
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I loaded phpBB3 on a new site, but had problems with the bridge from RN.
First was _authors not found (solved problem by adding $prefix=(the rn prefix: i.e. nuke)to the config file in /phpBB3.

The other problem was that it would always then bridge over logged in as administrator. To solve this I changed ".$user_prefix."_users to ".$prefix."_users in phpbb3.php.

Now it works perfectly restricting access from rn to forums based on user and group setting in rn.

http://stsoftware.biz has phpBB3 styles available for free.

Thank you.... I will test and update the phpbb3 download.
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I set it up so you can only get to the forum if you are logged in to the rn website. When you logout of the forum, it returns you to the rn website, but you will be logged out of that one also.

my 2 cents on this is phpbb2 has served us well but as bobby said it is now dead and people shy away from nuke because of this they want the modern forums.

phpBB 3 would be a great addition into nuke if only the bridge was worked out to run smoother i have no idea what goes into the bidge as i have never looked i have been waiting since the first bridge was done using phpBB 3.0.1 or 2 cant remember all i know is a bridge would take time to work out the flaws hence my waiting anyways just my 2 cents on this

You may want to consider adding "Group" settings to the bridge.

PhpBB3 is going to be replaced by phpBB4 soon and it is supposed to be a complete rewrite. I am taking a wait and see approach on any changes until they release a beta of phpBB4.
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phpBB 4 isnt due for awhile yet and from what i have been reading it will rely on Symfony 2 Framework which in turn relys on php 5.3.0.

i would recommend carrying on with the phpbb3 bridge and once phpbb 4 is released offer that to
as many uses will flood your forums with posts like it wont work i get a white screen or it doesnt do this or that as they wont have php 5.3.0 installed on there hosting server.

just a thought

I was under the impression that they were stopping work on the 3.x branch and moving forward with 4.x. It appears I was wrong since they are preparing 3.1 release. That changes a lot. Thanks...
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if you read the release notes they plan on releasing
3.0.9 as a maintance release
and start the new series 3.1.0

read this to clear things up

http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=36288