This is the first beta release of a FOAF RDF exporter for phpBB with the Profile Control Panel modification installed.

There have been previous FOAF modules for phpBB developed by CloCkWeRX for vanilla phpBB and Freso for phpBB with the Fetch All mod. This one differs in that it uses the buddy list functionality of the Profile Control Panel mod to produce data on a person’s friends.

Note that a user’s buddies will become publicly viewable after installing this mod, so it is advisable to notify users of a policy change on your bulletin board.

Installing this modification is quite easy, just copy the foaf.php into your forums directory. If you want to link to the FOAF export from a post’s “author panel”, read the instructions in the ZIP file (requires a one line edit to viewtopic.php).

You can download the add-on here.

You can read the discussion thread on phpBBFOAF at phpbb.com.