mrmoh

$w3all_dbhost = ‘127.0.0.1:3307’;
$w3all_dbport = ”; // maybe required
seems to work, i can find users in the phpbb now , rest should be working as intendend then.
Im not home right now but from the looks of it, the port isnt used so makes sense that the connection returns as null or failed since those info wont work on my running 3306 port, which it probably defaults to if nothing is set.

to use the config.php file structure from phpbb one would need to concat the 2 strings,
$w3all_config[“dbhost”]
and $w3all_config[“dbport”]
into
sting$dbhost
wpdb::__construct( string $dbuser, string $dbpassword, string $dbname, string $dbhost )

same for the usage of the root config file. I assume it doesnt came to attention because just using a db host without specifying :xxxx after it will default to 3306 making it as if the dbhost with dbport=3306 was indeed used.

last post widget or [w3allforumpost id=”3″] doesn’t work either. Showing there is no Post..

You should have at least made it so, that it checks if the connection is available before actually activating the plugin and possibly removing the option to log in for ID 1 when ID2 cant be found even tho it’s supposed to link it. Like I said before there is absolutely NO difference at all if I put a config.php in where all strings are empty. The only thing the plugin is actually checking on is the “Phpinstalled” stuff…

As I said, I’m using the original root config.php of my phpbb installation as a path, my Forum works just fine, no issues at all, WordPress still sees no users, no post/threads, nothing.

At this point, I’m wondering if I should actually spend more time trying to figure out what stops it from working, or if I should just write a new plugin for the same purpose .. Not really convinced so far that this implementation is properly done. The only idea like you mentioned already as well is that there is an issue with it having the same DB but different table prefixes

also saw

$w3all_dbms = ''; // maybe required
$w3all_dbhost = 'required value here';
$w3all_dbport = ''; // maybe required

in the unused custom config.php file, im using db port 3307, i hope the “maybe required” refers to it not being required to set if its == 3306

anyway, this is the config im using

// phpBB 3.2.x auto-generated configuration file
// Do not change anything in this file!
$dbms = 'phpbb\\db\\driver\\mysqli';
$dbhost = '127.0.0.1';
$dbport = '3307';
$dbname = 'cms';
$dbuser = 'root';
$dbpasswd = 'pw';
$table_prefix = 'forum_';
$phpbb_adm_relative_path = 'adm/';
$acm_type = 'phpbb\\cache\\driver\\file';

@define('PHPBB_INSTALLED', true);
// @define('PHPBB_DISPLAY_LOAD_TIME', true);
@define('PHPBB_ENVIRONMENT', 'production');
// @define('DEBUG_CONTAINER', true);