Jeremy O'Connell

This plugin will check your phpBB board and grab vital statistics such as total members, total threads, total posts, newest member, and last post and display that information on your WordPress site. phpBB can even be on another site, server, and datacenter. You have total control over which statistics are displayed. The theme is totally customizable and its easy to modify to match your design concept.
You are able to pull statistics from up to three (3) boards and display them on your WordPress powered site. Each board may have its own refresh setting. So if you have a busy board you may update its information more frequently than one that isn’t so heavily traveled.
Why a refresh interval? When loading statistics from your phpBB install a web query is required to grab the information. This makes sense, right? Well this action is taxing because another system must be contacted and possibly another datacenter too. So the data collected from your board(s) is stored in your local WordPress database. Thus between refresh periods the phpBB statistics are loaded from your site’s database, which makes this process more optimized for performance. However there are two other important optimization features.
First when the refresh period has lapsed and its time for new information only when the next page load occurs will this plugin contact phpBB. So if you have a 15 minute refresh period and your site gets no visitors for 32 minutes then at that time the plugin will grab the updated information and start a new 15 minute count down. After all why grab the information when no one is visiting the site. Yes, if you are wondering, spiders and bots count as visitors and thus new information will be pulled if they are the visitor.
Second when it comes time to update the board information this plugin will not wait long for phpBB to respond. In fact it only waits up to two seconds. If the board can’t be contacted in that time due to a network issue, slow server, or server is down the last saved statistics are displayed. Cleverwise phpBB Statistics will then automatically keep trying with every page load to update the information. So as you can see this plugin is designed to reduce the amount of resources required to accomplish the goal at hand.
It should be noted that there are two required parts to this setup. First is, obviously, this very plugin. The second involves some important files that allow this plugin to communicate with your phpBB install(s) called the wpapi. You see this system talks to the wpapi, that is uploaded to your phpBB styles directory, and that is what gathers the actual information from your phpBB(s). Now there are two important settings in the wpapi.
First is a secret key, that you create/make up, which keeps unauthorized sources from grabbing your data. Second is an optional setting that allows you to direct the wpapi system to omit specific forum(s) when looking for the latest post. Why this feature? Well if you have a hidden forum on your phpBB board you probably don’t want any topics from it displayed in the last post to your board do you? Nope.
Now you are wondering where do you get this wpapi? The download link is posted in the “Help Guide” in this plugin. So once you have installed this plugin simply download those key files and follow the instructions in the “Help Guide”.
Language Support: Should work for all languages that use the A-Z alphabet. The default language to display the statistics is in English but is easily changeable into any language.
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Cleverwise phpBB Statistics

Displays key phpBB statistics from up to three boards on your Wordpress site with total control over layout and what is displayed.

Nikos Merianos

Because we had some difficulties in the past versions, we have remove some of the features of the plugin. The version 2.0.7 DOES NOT require any donation to remove the backlink. With the new version, you will not be anymore able to autosubmit posts from WordPress into forums as a threads.
The WP phpBB Bridge is the evolution of «WordPress to phpBB3 Bridge». The first version of the plugin was designed to synchronize users of phpBB to WordPress, so when a user log-in to phpBB would be simultaneously connected to WordPress also.
The new version by e-xtnd.it added new features and improvements to exploit many of the features of WordPress previously were not available. Also has been added one new Widget to give more options for your blog.
After activating the Plugin, the user is redirected to connect and disconnect at phpBB. Also keeps the record within the phpBB3 and not WordPress. If a user does not exist in the tables in WordPress, then a new user is created . It should also be noted that after the activation several of the functions of phpBB will be available in WordPress in widget area.
Feature List:
<ul>
<li>Shares user authentication with phpBB3, by forcing phbBB to handle all the authentication.</li>
<li>Adds new users to WordPress user table from the phpBB3 user table.</li>
<li>Synchronizes WordPress user table from phpBB3 user table.</li>
<li>Allows WordPress themes to display current/last visit date/time as displayed in phpBB3</li>
<li>Widget for user login/user information from phpBB3 to be displayed.</li>
<li>Meta links widget that has registration, logging in, WordPress admin, Forum moderation, and Forum administration links. phpBB3 links visible based on user authentication.</li>
<li>Forum links widget that has links to various forum functions and pages based on the phpBB3 user authentication level.</li>
<li>Multilanguage support</li>
<li>Displays latest’s post’s of specific forum id’s</li>
<li>You can create instances of the same widget.</li>
</ul>
New Features
<ul>
<li>New easy way to deactivate the plugin in case you are locked out (There is no need to access again your database to deactivate the WP phpBB Bridge).</li>
<li>A new user-friendly dashboard with a quick view information about plugin status</li>
<li>You can specify the phpBB encoding for the WP phpBB Bridge Topics widget</li>
<li>You can be informed of your server settings, software, memory usage and many other related information</li>
<li>You can download from WP phpBB Bridge dashboard the english language *.po file to translate it into your language.The translations of the previews version 1.x are not compatible with the 2.x version of WP phpBB Bridge.</li>
<li>You can remove the backlink by unchecking only one checkbox</li>
</ul>
for more info visit: http://www.e-xtnd.it/wp-phpbb-bridge/
<h3>Developers</h3>
In new WP phpBB Bridge there are many hooks you can use with your code in order to modify native data, or run some functions in some points of WP phpBB Bridge execution period.
The following hooks are available.
Actions:
<ul>
<li>wpbb_before_init</li>
<li>wpbb_after_init</li>
<li>wpbb_plugin_started</li>
<li>wpbb_includes</li>
<li>wpbb_phpbb_loaded</li>
<li>wpbb_user_object_created</li>
<li>wpbb_authentication_object_created</li>
<li>wpbb_template_object_created</li>
<li>wpbb_cache_object_created</li>
<li>wpbb_db_object_created</li>
<li>wpbb_phpbb_configurations_loaded</li>
<li>wpbb_before_user_session_begin</li>
<li>wpbb_after_user_session_begin</li>
<li>wpbb_before_acl</li>
<li>wpbb_after_acl</li>
<li>wpbb_before_user_setup</li>
<li>wpbb_after_user_setup</li>
<li>wpbb_before_get_user_id</li>
<li>wpbb_return_user_id</li>
<li>wpbb_before_return_username</li>
<li>wpbb_after_return_username</li>
<li>wpbb_styles_loaded</li>
<li>wpbb_scripts_loaded</li>
<li>wpbb_ajax_url_created</li>
<li>wpbb_before_display_warning</li>
<li>wpbb_after_display_warning</li>
<li>wpbb_uninstalled</li>
<li>wpbb_before_flus_rewrite_rules</li>
<li>wpbb_after_flus_rewrite_rules</li>
<li>wpbb_before_add_rewrite_rules</li>
<li>wpbb_after_add_rewrite_rules</li>
<li>wpbb_before_add_query_variables</li>
<li>wpbb_after_add_query_variables</li>
<li>wpbb_before_disable_me</li>
<li>wpbb_after_disable_me</li>
<li>wpbb_before_admin_dashboard</li>
<li>wpbb_after_admin_dashboard</li>
<li>wpbb_before_admin_settings</li>
<li>wpbb_after_admin_settings</li>
<li>wpbb_before_forum_integration</li>
<li>wpbb_after_forum_integration</li>
<li>wpbb_before_author_integration</li>
<li>wpbb_after_author_integration</li>
<li>wpbb_before_donators</li>
<li>wpbb_after_donators</li>
<li>wpbb_before_get_avatar</li>
<li>wpbb_after_get_avatar</li>
</ul>
Filters:
<ul>
<li>wpbb_forums_categories – 1 argument – Array containing forums</li>
<li>wpbb_user_obj – 1 argument – phpBB User object</li>
<li>wpbb_auth_obj – 1 argument – phpBB Auth object</li>
<li>wpbb_template_obj – 1 argument – phpBB Template object</li>
<li>wpbb_cache_obj – 1 argument – phpBB Cache object</li>
<li>wpbb_db_obj – 1 argument – phpBB Database object</li>
<li>wpbb_phpbb_configs – 1 argument – phpBB Configurations object</li>
<li>wpbb_new_username – 1 argument – New username for WordPress database</li>
<li>wpbb_hash_generation – 1 argument – Hash</li>
<li>wpbb_forums_list – 1 argument – Array with forums displayed in Forum Assign page</li>
<li>wpbb_blog_categories – 1 argument – Array containing WordPress categories</li>
</ul>

WP phpBB Bridge

Shares user authentication with phpBB3, by forcing phbBB to handle all the authentication.

Cleverwise phpBB Statistics vs WP phpBB Bridge