Question Groups plugin

In case you're interested, we've developed a commercial tool that integrates JomSocial group discussions with the Kunena Forum: JS G-KUNENA .

It works with Joomla! 1.5 & 1.7; Kunena 1.5, 1.6 & 1.7; and JomSocial 1.2, 1.5, 1.6, 1.8, 2.0 & 2.2.

It includes automatic forum creation, automatic forum subscription for group members, and a JomSocial-Kunena toolbar. It does not handle member access rights to the forums because of ACL limitations that are not in our hands (they depend on Joomla!, Kunena and JomSocial).

As mentioned before by xillibit, Jomsocial needs to improve his API to easily integrate these two products. That's a fact. It'd need, for example, improved plugin management to be able to replace the default JomSocial group discussions behaviour by that of Kunena. In the meantime, you can use JS G-KUNENA , that handles the substitution of up to 5 JomSocial template files for each template, for the given versions.

Thanks for the offer. I have already seen your plugin and it is really more of a Kunena core hack.

I am using Kunena 1.7.1-DEV modified by Matias to work on my site. It works perfectly.

A plugin / code hack with no ACL control for private groups is meaningless especially when it costs $45 for a few lines of code.

While I don't agree with Xilibit offering a worthless "proof of concept" plugin on his downloads page - at least I know they are thinking about it and will eventually come out with a product that does not require hacking their forum code.

Good luck to you on your advertising campaign.

Hi Acapulco,

Well indeed it's more like a JomSocial template hack, not a Kunena core hacked as you called it. Starting with Kunena 1.6 and its new event when a new post is made, we don't touch a single line of the Kunena code (we don't need to, starting with Kunena 1.6 we can use a system plugin instead).

About ACL control, Joomla uses its own, Kunena modifies it a little, and so does JomSocial. There's nothing we can do about it. Unless Kunena and JomSocial handle ACL in the same manner or integrate each other at this point, it'll very hard to limit Kunena forum access to JomSocial group members (and it's not in our hands, I'm sorry).

We have developed this product because we need it ourselves in the first place. Once JomSocial Group discussions and Kunena Forums integrates with each other out of the box, we'll be more than happy to use it. Believe me, we don't like hacking JomSocial template files either. And as I told you before, we don't hack a single line in the Kunena code.

The advertising campaign, as you called it, is because some people in this forum may find the product useful for their purposes. If it is, we can help you. Just to let you know.

Kind regards.

PD: it doesn't cost $45, it costs 24.95€. And it is not a few lines of code. It includes 204 files, a Joomla! component, three Joomla! plugins, and it handles three new DB tables. Not a few lines of code.