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I currently have a website which is using phpBB and Coppermine bridged. I am using phpBB Fetchall to display the latest posts and various other user stats on the front page.
Having seen the need for a more robust system which included a section devoted to technical articles, the ability to receive RSS feeds, a feature of the month option & banner advertising etc. It became obvious I needed a more sophisticated system.
After doing much research it looks as if Joomla might be the best system. There are many things I like about this CMS but upon digging further I have become somewhat trapped or stuck.
Joomla appears to integrate ok with SMF and Coppermine. I am looking to also use Community Builder a popular mod for Joomla which enhances profiles of users and OpenSEF a search engine friendly URL rewrite.
This makes things very complex. It also makes url's of the forum no as search engine friendly as I'd like.
Has anyone here successfully integrated a CMS, Forum & Gallery and kept it search engine friendly? What did you use?
I'm also looking at VBAdvance and using Vbulletin and Photopost as I've seen another website that uses this solution but it's still not quite SEO friendly. I'd also like to stick with OpenSource if possible.
At the end of the day the ideal solution would be something that follows:
CMS Sytems with 1 login box.
Forums would be located here or similar:
[website.com...]
Gallery here or similar:
[website.com...]
Users can login and access the cms features the bulletin board and gallery and only need to login once.
The cms, gallery and forum can all operate as seperate entities making it easy to apply updates to each later, but share users basically.
I realise this is a long open ended question and a unique question to say the least but I'm hoping someone can help point me in the right direction. I'm happy to do more research just give me a few links or something ;).
