Answers.Body: <p>Out side of what you have mentioned, I recall <a href="http://www.discourse.org/" rel="nofollow">Discourse</a> being mentioned on the Google+ Community. That's written in Ruby, though.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://vanillaforums.org/" rel="nofollow">Vanilla Forums</a> is open-source and written in PHP. It's also comes with SSO (Single-Sign On), and can be embedded into another site via an iframe.</p>
  
  <p>There are currently no announced forum plugins native to Craft.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: We have successfully used Vanilla and enabled SSO with Craft. Works well.
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Answers.Text: Hey dan,
  I am working on embedding vanilla which i have managed to do with SSO working just fine. Next i want vanilla to assign the roles automatically as well as defined in my craft website. The permissions are going to be based on these roles. Is there any way I can pass user groups to vanilla from the jsConnect plugin such that it appropriately sets the user's role?
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Answers.Body: <p>Muut's Small subscription ($36/month if paid yearly, $45 if paid month to month -- previously $16/$20 for a 'developer subscription') includes 'Single Sign On', so users in Craft can translate to users in Muut without having to login a second time.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.theburn-zone.com/" rel="nofollow">BurnZone</a> is another alternative, similar to Disqus, it's tailored to commenting. You'd have to have a user create an entry, then use BurnZone/Disqus to facilitate comments on that entry. Both Disqus and BurnZone have 'Single Sign On' included as a free feature.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>The <a href="https://www.simplemachines.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Simple Machines Forum</a> (SMF) is pretty good as far as forums go, comparing favorably to PHPBB. I've used Craft's bootstrapping capability to integrate Craft templates into SMF templates pretty easily:</p>
  <pre><code>// Bootstrap Craft
  $craft = include '/path/to/craft/app/bootstrap.php';
  
  // Save the output of the specified Craft template
  $header = $craft-&gt;templates-&gt;render('includes/header');
  
  // Show the saved output
  echo $header;
  </code></pre>
  <p>I guess that holds for any PHP-based forum, of course.</p>
  <p>It doesn't cover SSO, though.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Im curious to hear more about what any of you are using to build "community"/ "forum" messaging options into your craft cms site.</p>
  
  <p>From what I've found it seems there would be a couple of interesting options</p>
  
  <p><strong>Socialize Plugin</strong> <a href="https://dukt.net/craft/socialize">https://dukt.net/craft/socialize</a></p>
  
  <p>Its in private beta and I haven't tried it but it seems to have a lot of the features we would need.  </p>
  
  <p>The big option questions would be how to manage any group messaging features but maybe you just have a "posts" channel that users can post to?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Muut</strong> <a href="https://muut.com/">https://muut.com/</a></p>
  
  <p>Allows for an iframe type integration. Seems to be pretty full featured but wouldnt really share any data (or logins) with craft, would be a visual integration only</p>
  
  <p>Any other options</p>
  
  <p>We aren't looking for a ton of features, just a way for people to login, share text and photos, and comment on those posts.</p>
  
  <p>Curious if anyone out there has tackled a problem like this?</p>
  
Tags: <users>
Title: Craft Forum/Community options
ThreadText: # Craft Forum/Community options
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-06-24)
  
  Im curious to hear more about what any of you are using to build "community"/ "forum" messaging options into your craft cms site.
  
  From what I've found it seems there would be a couple of interesting options
  
  **Socialize Plugin** <https://dukt.net/craft/socialize>
  
  Its in private beta and I haven't tried it but it seems to have a lot of the features we would need.
  
  The big option questions would be how to manage any group messaging features but maybe you just have a "posts" channel that users can post to?
  
  **Muut** <https://muut.com/>
  
  Allows for an iframe type integration. Seems to be pretty full featured but wouldnt really share any data (or logins) with craft, would be a visual integration only
  
  Any other options
  
  We aren't looking for a ton of features, just a way for people to login, share text and photos, and comment on those posts.
  
  Curious if anyone out there has tackled a problem like this?
  
  **Tags:** users
  
  
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  ## 3 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2014-06-25. Score: 3
  
  Out side of what you have mentioned, I recall [Discourse](http://www.discourse.org/) being mentioned on the Google+ Community. That's written in Ruby, though.
  
  [Vanilla Forums](http://vanillaforums.org/) is open-source and written in PHP. It's also comes with SSO (Single-Sign On), and can be embedded into another site via an iframe.
  
  There are currently no announced forum plugins native to Craft.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: We have successfully used Vanilla and enabled SSO with Craft. Works well.  
  > **username_3**: Hey dan, I am working on embedding vanilla which i have managed to do with SSO working just fine. Next i want vanilla to assign the roles automatically as well as defined in my craft website. The permissions are going to be based on these roles. Is there any way I can pass user groups to vanilla from the jsConnect plugin such that it appropriately sets the user's role?  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2014-07-03. Score: 2
  
  Muut's Small subscription ($36/month if paid yearly, $45 if paid month to month -- previously $16/$20 for a 'developer subscription') includes 'Single Sign On', so users in Craft can translate to users in Muut without having to login a second time.
  
  [BurnZone](http://www.theburn-zone.com/) is another alternative, similar to Disqus, it's tailored to commenting. You'd have to have a user create an entry, then use BurnZone/Disqus to facilitate comments on that entry. Both Disqus and BurnZone have 'Single Sign On' included as a free feature.
  
  
  ---
  
  ### Answer by username_5 on 2018-01-29. Score: 1
  
  The [Simple Machines Forum](https://www.simplemachines.org/) (SMF) is pretty good as far as forums go, comparing favorably to PHPBB. I've used Craft's bootstrapping capability to integrate Craft templates into SMF templates pretty easily:
  
  ```
  // Bootstrap Craft
  $craft = include '/path/to/craft/app/bootstrap.php';
  
  // Save the output of the specified Craft template
  $header = $craft->templates->render('includes/header');
  
  // Show the saved output
  echo $header;
  
  ```
  
  I guess that holds for any PHP-based forum, of course.
  
  It doesn't cover SSO, though.
  
  
  ---
  
  