Hello there. I'd been watching this topic because I love SMF, and cannot abide by Joomlaboard. In my frustration, I remembered one of the things I loved about SMF - namely, its SSI, and the fact that the code is relatively easy to read.
Using this, and a nudge from a helpful poster in the SMF forums, I figured out how to make SMF "speak" with CB in a sense.
I've just finished coding up a Recent Posts CB plugin that shows the last five posts of each member in the member profile (I use tabbed display, so the plugin is coded that way). Instead of one big plugin, I'm doing little useful ones that contain info not shown in CB (such as number of posts).
The goldmine SMF files are Profile.php and Profile.template.php. Almost everything you need to display information in SMF can be extracted from these and dropped into a plugin (with some tweaking). Just remember to fix the scripturl variable to point back to SMF via Joomla and there you have it.
Oh yeah... to work with CB, Joomlahack's bridge is better. That's the one I'm using, and that made my life so much simpler. Also, Joomlahack's bridge allows you to link to CB's profile - yeah, not perfectly integrated (i.e., avatars aren't synched), but really, that's just a small inconvenience to live with until some code guru finds a way to work around this. SMF is worth it.
Regards,
Brat.
Post edited by: Brat, at: 2006/07/23 14:23