As many others I'm trying to integrate Umbraco with YetAnotherForum. I have seen Dave's effort but that takes quite some time and prevents you from possible (easy) upgrades of the forum codebase.
Would it be possible to do it the other way arround:
Create a separate Application for the forum.
Copy the umbraco dll that contains the membership classes to it's bin.
Change web.config to use umbraco membership classes
Ready?! Yes that's 3 steps, where Dave needs 40.
What simple thing am I overlooking that makes Dave's complicated efforts necessary?
If you're trying to integrate the authentication between YAF and Umbraco then yes, you'll probably have to have most of the Umbraco assemblies in the bin folder of the YAF application.
But to be honest I'd stay away from YAF, I really don't like it. It's got one of the most horrible code bases I've ever seen, and it's very heavy for what it ultimately contains.
I'd suggest having a play with uForum(http://our.umbraco.org/projects/uforum-basics), which is what runs this site.
Just want to let you know that my guide is a bit outdated. It still uses RC2 of YAF.If you just want to use membership maybe your solution will work. But if you really want to use YAF as part of your website, so rendering it with a Umbraco template you probably have to follow my approach
YAF with Umbraco membership
As many others I'm trying to integrate Umbraco with YetAnotherForum. I have seen Dave's effort but that takes quite some time and prevents you from possible (easy) upgrades of the forum codebase.
Would it be possible to do it the other way arround:
- Create a separate Application for the forum.
- Copy the umbraco dll that contains the membership classes to it's bin.
- Change web.config to use umbraco membership classes
- Ready?! Yes that's 3 steps, where Dave needs 40.
What simple thing am I overlooking that makes Dave's complicated efforts necessary?If you're trying to integrate the authentication between YAF and Umbraco then yes, you'll probably have to have most of the Umbraco assemblies in the bin folder of the YAF application.
But to be honest I'd stay away from YAF, I really don't like it. It's got one of the most horrible code bases I've ever seen, and it's very heavy for what it ultimately contains.
I'd suggest having a play with uForum(http://our.umbraco.org/projects/uforum-basics), which is what runs this site.
thanks for confirming this approach might work. Will let you know if it is as easy as this in reality.
uForum missing basic things like subscribing to a topic and attachments that I need.
Hey Yannick,
Just want to let you know that my guide is a bit outdated. It still uses RC2 of YAF.If you just want to use membership maybe your solution will work. But if you really want to use YAF as part of your website, so rendering it with a Umbraco template you probably have to follow my approach
Finally got the time to try this approach but I can't get it to work. Some timeout is happening which I can't seem to debug. Going the Dave way now.
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