Any PHP developers interested in this exciting project?
 

Hi,

I'm an experienced PHP developer, currently working on an exciting project, and would love some advice!

Mail2Forum is at present a MOD for phpBB, and provides an feature-packed interface between phpBB forums and email mailing lists (i.e. in essence forum posts are sent to the list and emails are imported into the forum). However, I am currently hard at work on a complete redesign for version 2.0, which brings me to vBulletin. Rather than the 1=1 relationship we have in version 1 between a phpBB forum and a mailing list, version 2 will be modular, allowing pluggable 'channels' to be configured in a many=many relationship. My focus at first will be to write channels for phpBB and email, but later I will also tackle things like RSS and other forum software such as vBulletin. The new version will allow a huge amount of functionality: imagine synchronised posts between different kinds of web-based forums; synchronised RSS feeds and mailing lists; importing archived emails into a forum - the possibilities are endless. Some of the combinations will duplicate functionality already available (such as converting posts from phpBB to vBulletin, or making an RSS feed out of a forum), but m2f's advantage will be its modular nature, its centralisation and its ease of configuration.

What we need is someone to help out with some serious PHP work - to join the team for a great Open Source project. We're writing for PHP4 and PHP5, using OOP and Test Driven Development, with the help of libraries from PEAR, ADODB and Smarty. As well as responsibility for the vBulletin channel, we would really love some help with development of the core code for m2f.

Firstly I wonder if this is the correct forum at vbulletin.org in which to post my request - please let me know if there's a better option. Secondly, is anyone interested enough in the project to want to discuss it with me? Please reply here (preferable) or look me up on MSN/AOL/ICQ.

Many thanks!

Since you don't have a vBulletin license, this is one of the few forums on vbulletin.org where you have posting permissions. The forum where it is now is a good place to ask for this as you are unlicensed.

Good luck with finding someone to help you with the vBulletin part of the coding and with your project.

Thanks Marco.

PS Since you are unlicensed, other members will not be able to send you a PM. So will have to be either public posts in this thread, or IM.

(and your thread got another bump ;))

Sure - I'll edit the post to reflect this.

Do you have any particular advice about my request? It's truly a fantastic project, but I wonder whether you think anyone who frequents these forums will be interested. What do you think? Should I give some more information on any points, or is it clear enough?