Vbulletin and Multiple Domains.. Idea

[SaN-DeeP]

Inspired by this thread from Jake Bunce: Multiple domains and the license agreement (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=103150) i thought of an addon or hack if its possible.
which will allow users to have multiple forums setup under multiple domain names.. allowing multiple types of forums all under 1 database.


I have technology forums as well general forums running on 1 single license @ forums.tech-arena.com

I want to hide the general forums, *(not tech related) and move them to another domain forums.chat-arena.com (for example)

create some new forums which will be related to career talk on forums.career-arena.com

I will be buying a new license for same. But i would like to know how can i hide forums on multiple domains first.

Please let me know, as those would enable me to have all users register on same database, post counts etc. will increase on same DB.
I am ready to go for this option ASAP.

Need the tech support on hiding forums under multiple domain names.

My thread on vb.com -> http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=115356

Regards,

[AN-net]

couldn't you just make the domain redirect to the http://forums.tech-arena.com/forumdisplay.php?f=xx

[SaN-DeeP]

yes i can.. but i want rest of the forums to get hidden on this. and i also want to have a unique header for all the domains i will add.

I am sure, this will be a small hack, but will be of great use to people, who want to integrate multiple forums into 1 database..

probably some advanced template coders can put some light on this.

Regards,

[Natch]

You could run a conditional in whatever tempaltes you want to be different
<if condition="strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],'tech-')">
...
</if>
<if condition="strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],'chat-')">
...
</if>

Then you would just need to implement the hack by Brad Loo to expand the range of permissible PHP functions in your Template conditionals...

[Brad]

Please note that I released that hack with a warning that it is not intended to be used on live installs. If you need one of two functions add them to the filter array's so they can be used while not allowing every other php function to pass. In the case of multiple admins with style editing ability that hack could be very harmful in the wrong hands.

[Natch]

This is kind-of what I was talking about - good point Brad.

[SaN-DeeP]

Please note that I released that hack with a warning that it is not intended to be used on live installs. If you need one of two functions add them to the filter array's so they can be used while not allowing every other php function to pass. In the case of multiple admins with style editing ability that hack could be very harmful in the wrong hands.
can u pass the link to the thread ?
I am planning to purchase additional copies of vbulletin for all my multiple domains, so i wonder there should not be a problem for me using the hack ?

As it was already been told me Vbulletin staff, to request the idea of getting multiple domains working on vb.org

Let me know :)

Regards,