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Illuminise
05-17-2008, 08:50 AM
G'day everyone.

I want to intergrate my forums with my website (so skin the forums like the site). The easiest way for me right now would be to just dump the entire forum skin, within a page of my site (Example may be putting the entire forums into a table cell).

I have looked everywhere for the main template that does all of the displaying, and I found Generic_shell. It looked like what I needed, but ANY modifications I made to this file did nothing.

Would anybody be able to tell me what file i need to edit, in order to implement the forums into the site.

Thank you.
Lynne
05-17-2008, 02:20 PM
You might want to take a look at the part of the manual which explains how vbulletin uses templates and css for their styles. Styles & Templates (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/styles_and_templates)
WEBDosser
05-17-2008, 02:27 PM
header + footer
Illuminise
05-18-2008, 01:24 AM
Thanks for the replies, but I still can not find what I am looking for.

I found "forumdisplay" and when I changed the coding for that, any page what was forumdisplay.php was implimented into my sites layout. However posts, the main board, etc were all the default theme.

There has to be a file that tells the template what to look like. So someone may want to have their footer as their header, and it would be in a file.

In GENERIC_SHELL (the template) I found this.

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]" id="vbulletin_html">
<head>
$headinclude
<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - $pagetitle</title>
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar

$HTML

$footer
</body>
</html>

So to me that looks like the main layout of the site. So it includes the current title, the header of the board, the navigation bar, then the boards html (all the forums, posts, etc), then it has the footer, and closes off all html.

But when I try to modify that file, it does not modify. Any ideas?