Grails and vBulletin (forum integration)

Hi,

We are planning to integrate a "forum" functionality to our "100% Grails" platform (www.chakkr.com )

There are 2 ways to go :

-> Develop on our own (Grails and some associated plugins may give a good start)
-> Use 3rd party apps (my favorite so far being vBulletin)

Is there any existing plugin for "forum" support in a Grails application ?

Or, is there any existing plugin for a 3rd party forum software like vBulletin ? (how is the user-account data "shared" ?)

During my research, I stumbled upon a website (http://www.cruiselinefans.com), which claims to be developed using Grails, and have successfully integrated vBulletin to their application.

Can anyone out here throw some lights on that ?

Thanx...you guys rock!,

Regards,
Ajith

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Hi Ajith,

I've had a little experience so I'll throw my 2 cents in here. My experience was not with grails but with wicket and I have to offer a word of caution going down the road of integrating 3rd party software. If I understand you correctly you are basically talking about a bit of software to keep your users sync'd between the forum and the grails app, I think the term is a 'bridge'. While it is possible it certainly wasn't painless, things like:

• vBulletin is PHP so there is that whole rabbit hole. 
• Your session isn't going to pass seamlessly over 
• Logins often use cookies so you will have some voodoo to do there, either registration is going to be via the vBulletin registration (adapt grails app) or registration is going to be via the grails app (back to PHP) as you don't want your user having to log in to both 
• CSS, styling often ends in duplication

I think with something like Grails that is fast to develop in it is better go for the contained application rather then have to live with what starts out as what seems like an easy win but turns into lots of glue and sticky-tape to make it work. 

Anyhoo, that's my opinion for what its worth.

Simon

On 31 May 2011 10:29, Ajith Kumar Padmanabhan <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Davide,

Thanx for the feedback.

Sounds good that you did an attempt to add "forum" to a Grails App.
Did you try to integrate a 3rd party software like vBulletin, or did you do it yourself from scratch?

I'll PM you, so that we can take it further.

Thanks,

Regards,
Ajith

On 05/30/2011 12:24 PM, Rossi Davide wrote:

Hi,

I started developing a forum plugin for one of my projects.
The first version of the site went live without the forum, as the plugin was a bit rough  (and we had to develop other more important features), but I plan to restart working on it soon.
If you want I can send you the rough version so you can start evaluating it (and maybe help me polish it if interested :-))

In any case, if you can find a good way to integrate another forum engine I could use that solution instead of my plugin if it's better :-)

Ciao
Davide

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Ajith Kumar Padmanabhan <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

We are planning to integrate a "forum" functionality to our "100% Grails" platform (www.chakkr.com )

There are 2 ways to go :

-> Develop on our own (Grails and some associated plugins may give a good start)
-> Use 3rd party apps (my favorite so far being vBulletin)

Is there any existing plugin for "forum" support in a Grails application ?

Or, is there any existing plugin for a 3rd party forum software like vBulletin ? (how is the user-account data "shared" ?)

During my research, I stumbled upon a website (http://www.cruiselinefans.com), which claims to be developed using Grails, and have successfully integrated vBulletin to their application.

Can anyone out here throw some lights on that ?

Thanx...you guys rock!,

Regards,
Ajith

--
Ajith Kumar Padmanabhan

CHAKKR – The Courier Marketplace www.chakkr.com

Web2Come GmbH
Alleestr.4
46049 Oberhausen, Germany
www.web2come.com


 

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