Forum Site Integration

[dvdinfoman]

Before I bought vBulletin I asked if it was possible to integrate it into the main portionof my site similar to the way a forum is integrated into the two following sites:

DVDAnswers (http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=4534&n=1&burl=)
IMDB (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0204313/)

What I am referring to are the comments at the bottom of each page. I run a movie site similar to these two and want the same functionality. If anyone can tell me where I need to start and what templates I will have to use to get started on this that would be great!

Thanks

[Gary King]

Basically all you need to do is put <?php require_once('./global.php'); // change this to find your forum global.php file ?> at the top of every page you want to run integrated with vBulletin.

Also, you might want to check out my thread about creating your own vBulletin powered page (Hints and Tips area.)

[dvdinfoman]

I will give this a shot and see what I can do with it, but just so I think I understand, that code you gave will link to the SQL calls to access the forum database and then I just need to customize the vBulletin templates into whatever page I want them associated with, is that right?

Thanks,

Brad

[Gary King]

correct; check my thread for much more detail

[CLI]

I'd like to do a similar thing - show the forum integrated into an existing web page. The twist is the forum is located on a different server - any ideas about how to do this?

[Gary King]

I'd like to do a similar thing - show the forum integrated into an existing web page. The twist is the forum is located on a different server - any ideas about how to do this?
Use frames :) You can get some idea by taking a lookie at the code here: http://bayden.com/bbs/

[CLI]

Can't really do frames - we are using a hosted content management system which is already established - would like to be able to give the support staff a bit of code that will pull in the forum (like a channel in a portal). Any ideas?

[nexialys]

<a href="http://vbadvanced.com" target="_blank">http://vbadvanced.com</a> ... the portal can integrate any kind of content, you can display or not the panels, each block and every kind of pages.. you can even find an integration of the forum as a panel...

[CLI]

Also don't have the luxury of changing the CMS. I would think this would be easy - guess that's not the case??

[quadroplex89103]

im sure it is they just dont seem to want to tell us lol