Integrating Coppermine with phpBB
The Coppermine Bridging (integration) Manager lets you integrate the gallery with both the latest version of phpBB (2.0.18) and ones prior to it. Please note that the integration process is different for versions 2.0.18 or better and the ones prior to it. With that being said, lets proceed to the actual installation. Log in as administrator and navigate your way to the Bridging Manager. We have done several test integration with phpBB while writing this tutorial and noticed that if you are running a phpBB which was initially installed with a version prior to 2.0.18 and then upgraded to the latest version, you will have to select phpBB versions prior to 2.0.18 for the integration. The integration process is the same for both version 2.0.18 and the ones prior to it.
Note that before proceeding with the integration process you will have to install the application you are going to bridge with Coppermine, in this case phpBB. You can refer to our phpBB tutorial for further reference.
Once both applications are ready, Open your Bridge Manager and select phpBB versions prior to 2.0.18 (again this is assuming that your phpBB was not version 2.0.18 when it was initially installed but it was upgraded to 2.0.18. If the version you have installed is 2.0.18 choose phpBB version 2.0.18 or better) and click next.
On the next step you have to point where is your board installed - URL to the installation and a relative path to the installation
In our case the forum is installed in /home/user/public_html/board while Coppermine is installed at (/home/user/public_html/gallery), so the URL for the phpBB installation would be http://yourdomain.com/board and the path from gallery to the board folder would be ../board as shown on the screenshot.
By default phpBB uses cookies named phpbb2mysql, so unless you have changed the name of the cookie in your phpBB installation you should leave that one as it is and click Next.
Use post-based groups?: Yes or No Should the groups from the BBS that are defined by the number of posts be taken into account (allows a granular permissions management) or just the default groups (makes administration easier, recommended). You can change this setting later as well. This is an option which you decide whether to use or not, we had it enabled during the integration.
Click Next when you are done. That will take you to the summary screen of the integration
Select enable, click Finish and you are done. Your phpBB forum and your Coppermine gallery now share the same username database and once logged in in one of the applications you are automatically being logged to the other one as well.