Integration with FlashBB
FlashBB is a Flash skin for phpBB and vBulletin bulletin board systems. Since osDate uses, by default, a phpBB forum for its members, you can upload FlashBB to your osDate.
To do this, create a sub-folder called "flashbb" within our osDate "forum" folder, and upload all FlashBB contents to this new folder, as shown below.
You can test this by directly accessing flashbb's "index.html" file to load FlashBB. To administer FlashBB, you will use phpBB's administration panel, and use your osDate admin login to access it.
I have osdate installed at http://www.tufat.com/demo/osdate/, and the phpBB forum is located at http://www.tufat.com/demo/osdate/forum/, so FlashBB would be at the URL shown below. I logged in using my osDate admin login.
When you access FlashBB for the first time, a new table will be created, phpbb_flash_user_theme, with one record. This record corresponds to the default layout for FlashBB. If this table was not created, then FlashBB might not be able to establish a connection with your database. Check to ensure that you have the latest version of FlashBB, and that it is correctly uploaded to your server. This screenshot was created using phpMyAdmin.
As a final step, we have to update the osDate template. Open the "templates/default-blue/panelmenu.tpl" file using a good text editor, like Textpad. Change the /forum/osdate_login.php reference to "/forum/flashbb/index.html", as shown below.
Finally, login to your osDate admin panel, and switch from your current template to any other template, then back to your current template. For example, if you're using default-blue, switch to black-grey, then back to default-blue. This will cause the updated .tpl files to be re-loaded, with the change that you made to panelmenu.tpl. Login using a valid, registered user name. In the Member Panel, the Forum link will now load FlashBB instead of phpBB.
