Installing a phpBB extension to restrict MediaWiki-incompatible characters in phpBB.The Custom phpBB-to-MediaWiki username translation section of the README goes into this in depth. The suggested approach for existing phpBB installations is to create a custom phpBB user profile field where a phpBB admin can set a MediaWiki-friendly username for users with incompatible names.There are a few ways to solve this problem: For example, MediaWiki does not allow the '' bracket symbols. Although all MediaWiki usernames are valid in phpBB, some phpBB usernames are not valid in MediaWiki. MediaWiki does not follow the same user naming conventions as phpBB, so there may be problem if someone uses an invalid username.

See the project's README for more information on how to configure these. PHPBB_Auth supports several optional features as well, including connecting to phpBB tables in an external database, requiring users to be a member of a specific phpBB group to log in, customized error messages, and custom phpBB-to-MediaWiki username translation. $wgAuth_Config = // load the authentication extensions wfLoadExtension ( 'PluggableAuth' ) wfLoadExtension ( 'Auth_phpBB' ) Optional features

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