CI Forum Plugin or Integration

[eluser]Phil Sturgeon[/eluser]
It's really not as easy to do as you would think. Back in 2000ish I was on the PNphpBB team which worked on integrating phpBB into Postnuke (ha!) and all the time we spent re-writing and integrating that crap could have easily be spent on making a native forum module that worked much better.

The issue here is that no two CodeIgniter applications have identical views/templates, user systems, permissions, admin setups, etc so its just not possible to offer a "module" as a ready to go download.

In the 5 years I have been active in the CodeIgniter community I have seen at least 10 projects start doing this and all wane into non-existence or inactivity within a few months.