Bridge prestashop and ip.board

[Kogkalidis]

I own valid license of the board and I want to have same login for both systems (with prestashop system the main) and some modules that will get content from the forum such as 1) last topics, 2) non answered topics, 3) most answered topics, 4) specific category topics, 5) links in user dashboard in front office and 6) discount per xxxx posts... Pm for proposals.. Thanx

[vekia]

integration between both CMS will be MAJOR technical headache.

 

but:

- to display last posts you can use rss channel, ipboard has got feature to turn on / off rss

then link to rss looks like: 

http://domain.com/rss/forums/1-new-topics/

you can use this channel in rssblock module (default free prestashop addon)

 

other stuff needs custom development, both for prestashop and for ipboard

[Kogkalidis]

Thanx for fast response Milos. Because I dont posess the technical expertise that you do, can you be more specific by what do you mean 'headache'?

[Dh42]

I think by headache he means that you are going to have to override the whole ip board login system to make it use the prestashop login system. The reason you do that way and not the opposite is that PrestaShop needs certain information since it is an ecommerce package and needs information to make checkouts happen. At the same time you are going to have to merge the two cookie systems too or at least make each software package set the cookie for the other software package. Doing something like this time consuming since there are so many different aspects to each software to keep in mind. 

[Kogkalidis]

I completelly understand that. So how much money would you need to do it?

[Reho]

Hi Guys,

 

I'm looking for the same solution and I found the following resources:

 

- IP. board has the functionality to gather user credentials from third party service

- you can connect to services which is IPS login compatiblie

- these services can be master and slave (so for example you can connect two IP.boards because its implements both modes)

- we have to write an IPS login compatiblie master plugin to use Prestashop as the main account holder

- here is an example of a master and a slave application: http://www.invisionpower.com/support/guides/_/advanced-and-developers/integration/ips-connect-r27

- another resource which will be helpful is the Prestashop Webservice API: http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS16/Web+service+one-page+documentation

 

I hope this helps, and if you have working solution let me know here. I'll do the same if I have...