Ok I got it working now, It soo Cool, Thanks Teck you are the MAN!

On a side note maybe the readme =file has the addition to the global.php file badly parsed casue that was my problem opened it in BBedit and zapped the bugs (one extra space) and Voila!! everything works cool.

Not sure about your php question, but im pretty sure it wont bring your board to its knees. I've installed the portal and it worked fine apart from a mysql question which i fixed easily. Only problem now is the styles arent showing properly on forum home inside table is showing ok, but bckground of page is still purple :p

Anyways ronb im sure you will like the portal it is brilliant. Maybe install it on a test board first so you can get used to it etc?

Can i ask where that bug is? what code has the space in it that needs to be removed?

i would like nothing better than to but we have no test board or server. What are you not clear about the php. i know i'm not always explaining things clearly. I don't want the main board to be reading the global.php in the root when it needs to read the global.php3 in the admin directory.

Also will the front page have the same skins as the main board does. I'm assuming we'll have to configure that right. Am i making sense? lol

I meant i do not understand all of this php and php3 etc because i am still learning myself (basically i dont know the difference between php and php3) so sorry i cant help you with php related questions. As for the skins, you will have an option in your admin cp after installing the portal, to either asign one skin only to the portal, OR, let multiple skins be used at once, so basically whatever skin the user has selected, the portal will be in the same layout/colors etc as the skin

oh ok. So you really didn't have much trouble installing this front page right. BTW i know how you feel. I came in late as an admin on the board and am learning as i go that's why i was afraid i was saying the wrong thing. I'm a programmer by trade but not on web design so i'm taking a crash course. More like crashing head first at times! that's why i'm asking so many questions, i'm cautious.

thanks

I pick up easy, and kind of learning ;)

Yeah the installation was a breeze! Surprisingly how easy it was actually as there was not many steps to follow.

Only problem i had as i said was a mysql error when trying to access the portal. To solve this i just changed the portal options in the admin panel to anything really, and it fixed it. Havent had any problems since.


Maybe you should download something like phptriad or phpdev5 to install a local host on your pc. That way you could test it out.

I just did. Result:

Warning: main(./homeglobal.php) [function.main]: failed to create stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/codforum/admin/vbhlinstall.php on line 7

Fatal error: main() [function.main]: Failed opening required './homeglobal.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/html/codforum/admin/vbhlinstall.php on line 7

This error message occurs when running http://<sitename>/admin/vbhlinstall.php in my browser.

I've gone through all the vbHL files many times and double-checked that all instances of global.php is replaced with homeglobal.php.

Just to be sure: the vbHL index.php and global.php (which I have renamed to homeindex.php and homeglobal.php) shall NOT replace the vBulletin index.php and global.php files, but recide in the main html dir above the vBulletin dir, right? I did the file copying like this:

/var/www/html: homeindex.php, homeglobal.php and backend.php
/var/www/html/forum: printarticle.php and vBulletin newthread.php
/var/www/html/forum/admin: vbhlinstall.php and vBulletin template.php
/var/www/forum/images: arrow.gif, article.gif, articleemail.gif and articleprint.gif
/var/www/html/images/polls: bar.gif, bar-bk.gif, bar-l.gif and bar-r.gif

I'm really feeling noobish here... :/

I'm in the process of installing this home page. i did all the steps except the last one. How do i run the vbhlinstall.php script installer?

@ ronb

You have to link to it in your browser like this

www.<yoursite>.com/forum/admin/vbhlinstall.php

Gdluck