I'll pay $300 when the sun don't shine anymore.......:rolleyes:

I bought a copy of Subdreamer. I'll glady sell my license for cheap. Also same goes for vbportal too. As an online magazine they're just not powerful enough for me.

I'm currently working on a CMS system that will integrate with vbulletin. The CMS is different but will pull the user info and login from vbulletin. if someone is a good designer and would like to make a template I'll give them a copy of the software. I have an eta of about 2 months. I'll see if I can get a live demo up. The software works great as it is, just need to make the bridge now.

What features are you exactly looking for? Just to allow certain users access to write articles on the front page?
Admin - add/edit/lock articles,add/edit categories, moderate comments
Writers - add articles
Users - can comment only.

Is anyone using PHPFox? It looks kinda cool and promises VB integration and I had a little corespondence with the coder and they are working on more integration.. I still haven't bought it yet though.

Hi folks,

What a great thread Cyburbia!

I have been using firstly Mambo and more recently Joomla. Great piece of work with thousands of addons - components, modules and mambots. The support is great, the community is great and supportive. You can easliy modify how you present your site. There is a lot of integration with many other Opensource products.

I originally had SMF bridged with Mambo/Joomla, which worked well having users and members logged in through the site, with comments linked from editorial (joomla) to the forums via a mambot. Users could log in/out easily. Members could be administered easily within SMF backend.

Then I saw VBulletin and after asking about integration bridging with Joomla and getting confirmation in the forums, I went ahead with the purchase. I love VBulletin but I am really stuck with no integration with Joomla. I have tried VBadavanced, but it is no where what I require.

Have a look at the site - It looks and feels integrated - yet I have had to knock off the joomla login/out to all just to log into VBulletin. Cannot have them logging in twice!!
I am not any good at PHP so have not the ability to integrate these two great products.:up:

And like Cyburbia, VBulletin needs and requires a good CMS to go with!
Lets hope it happens soon,

All the best,
Dave

VBulletin-Wordpress Bridge for 3.64 now testing this integration, if it works we have a very good solution here. :)

vbPortal I think could be the answer if more people worked on it, Personally I really like it of course there are a few things that bother me like it says make new post or whatever for adding an article but over all I think it really is great :) though I still hope that someday joomla will be fully intergated and ready to work :) Or maybe even a vbCMS to be hones this type of thing makes me wonder about switching to IPB...

Miraserver is back in development, with a new version in the works. I have been Beta testing it, and it is great. The integration is top notch, and it has everything you could want in a CMS, except for being free. But I think the price is fair at $99, and the team is very good at helping to customize the product further for whatever you need.

I have been a paying customer for over 3 years now.

www.miraserver.com

Personally, I'd like to see more development of vbAdvanced. Having a portal that adapts to vbulletin with login, styles, etc... is a great asset. Having a system that works into vbulletin rather along side is the way I think a cms solution should be handled.

Hello,

I may have not followed this thread correctly because what I have read seems like it can already be done, using current vBulletin features and a few mods.

I am thinking along the lines of GARS. It allows for the creation of modules, can use different templates that you create, and can be easily organized using the current forum structure. (It simply allows you to alter forums to use a completely different set of user defined templates.)

It has the ability to be used for reviews, articles, stories, etc. The possibilities are endless with it and only stops at your coding level and imagination.

It is based off of vBuletin code, so to me it seems like an ideal solution though it isn't a true CMS. It certainly can be used as one!

If you haven't already, post any ideas you have for vBa CMPS over at vBadvanced. Brian/Tigga is working on the feature sets for the next couple of releases. ;)