PHP version numbers please.

PHP 4.4.1

Michael - is there anywhere we can see this in action...? Am very intrigued...

I hope to have my demo site up within the next week or so. But don't expect to see it until I release the first Release Candidate. The beta is an advanced preview if you will.

Php 4.4.4

looking very promise

Fine piece of work. I've been doing a fair amount of vB/Joomla integration and mod writing recently (for other people), and I'm even considering re-adopting Joomla for myself when vJoomla stablizes. I had exactly the same frustrations you did with the two template systems (and lack of support from BBpixel), only I didn't have the patience to do what you are doing!

My only concern is, as you say above, "I'm branching off Joomla". Are you literally working on core Joomla files, or is it plugin based? How likely are you to implement this in 1.5? Much as I like the look of what you are doing, i don't want to paint myself into a corner with an "old" version of Joomla I then can't upgrade. 1.5 seems to address a lot of the XSS vulnerabilities in Joomla, which were another large part of why I abandoned it in the first place.

-- hugh

This might be a simple question and more related to the Joomla admin side of things, but on my Joomla pages that are using the VB templates, my right hand column is empty [i have unpublished all the modules] but it's still showing, how can I remove it?

Edit: Nevermind, fixed it.

Joomla 1.5 can be bridged in quite a different manner since it is able to directly authenticate off foreign user tables and more fully implements it's native template engine. I've been watching it too - the one thing that has me worried about it is their 'php 5 emulation under php 4' -- this seems to be a severely unnecessary complication to the product.

vJoomla modifies core joomla files - it has to in order to accomplish what it does. I'm trying to keep the changes to a minimum, but they are significant. So far they have not proven significant enough to stop any module I've tried to run on it from working.

BTW, for a XSS attack to work against vJoomla it would first need to defeat vbulletin's xss precautions in addition to Joomla's native ones.

Hi Michael - am watching this thread and eagerly await the release of your version.

Qn if I may: skinning and templates... does your bridge do anything with these and make it easier to use a Joomla template on vB or a vB template on Joomla...? I appreciate matching the two is way out of scope of a Joomla/vB bridge, but are there any presentation layers considered?