Question Few questions about integration

Hi all,



Recently installed Kunena, and I must sya it looks really slick! I like it a lot at first sight, however I'm struggling a bit with a few questions.

First and for all, I'd like to point out that I'm aiming to have one profile for my users for the whole site, combined into one table in my database.

I've taken a look at CB and it looks alright to me, but does anyone know if it's possible with that plug in to combine the joomla user and kunena user profiles into one? Because I believe (haven't checked it in phpMyAdmin yet) the synchronize function of kunena uses a different user table then the Joomla user table.

Besides this, I have one other question, more Kunena related . I'd like my 'articles' on the front page to be selected from a certain forum (News, to keep it easy ), but I haven't found an option to do so. Am I overlooking something, or is there already a plug in for this option, or will I have to write it my own (which might prove to be a pain in the *ss, as I'm a newbie with Joomla^^)

Looking forward to your replies.



Thanks in advance,

Anzeo

We plan on having not only a forum feed, but of each subforum, so with time, you will be able to parse them as articles

Or some talented user of the forum, could take the challenge and do that cool addon!

I'm not promising anything, but I'll take a look into it ^^

I don't recommend anyone to move all profile info into one table. You will run into problems sooner or later, if you do that.

Here are a few reasons why you should not do it (you may make up more):
* Possible field name conflicts: these will break your components.
* Only owning component should have access to fields belonging to it: other components do not know what to do with the data and may break it.
* Upgrading software will be pure pain -- data structures usually change between releases. This will effectively force you to fix all depended software almost every time you update one of your components. As a result you would soon have 2 years old buggy software.

Using common data structure is against every principle on how to design a good software. Nobody else but the component itself should see the internal data. Much better way would be to integrate different components to work together -- by using APIs.

I'm afraid I haven't made myself clear, I don't want all data in one table, I just want all my users stored in the same table(s) (so no more then one USER table, GROUP table and so on).

But after taking a look at the current database structure, it seems to me that Kunena is making use of the Joomla user table anyway ,so that's not a problem then

I was talking about user information and user table.

Kunena uses all information in joomla user table as does any other component.

But it has it's own table for all Kunena related stuff (jos_fb_users). That's why I posted my message.