Title: Poor man's integeration with phpbb
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Poor man's integeration with phpbb

 *  [chrisv2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisv2/)
 * (@chrisv2)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poor-mans-integeration-with-phpbb/)
 * I am experimenting with a simple way to have phpbb header and footer encapsulate
   WP. This is a combination of calling phpbb to generate its header, then calling
   wp-loader to get the WP content, then phpbb to generate the footer. Also, I strip
   down the native WP header.php and footer.php to a bare minimum.
 * It actually works very well with only a couple of minor code tweaks to formatting.
   php and pluggable.php, and a couple of css collision fixes.
 * The headache I ran into was phpbb being able to find it’s href linked files once
   I turned on permalinks in WP. I spent hours trying to figure this out. Here’s
   what finally worked: putting a symbolic link to phpbb’s root directory, in every
   level of generated page directory from WP.
 * So, if I want to have links like: **[http://www.foo.com/blog/2010/my-post](http://www.foo.com/blog/2010/my-post)**
   then I have to put a symbolic link to phpbb at ‘**blog**‘ and at ‘**2010**‘. 
   It actually works, but it’s ugly.
 * I also tried experimenting with .htaccess to redirect any calls to ANYTHING that
   had /phpbb/ in it’s header request to remove any leading directory path that 
   WP was pre-pending onto the GET request. Although that made sense to me, I couldn’t
   get it to work.
 * Should I keep hacking on this or is the redirection/permalink manipulation from
   WP just too complex and I’ll end up going (completely) insane?
 * Thanks,
    Chris

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