[Michael Morris]

Originally Posted by Sam1985

Hey,

I love this.
Thanks. Joomla is the best!!

I just would like to know how to make the forum like part of the whole layout.

For example the SMF board that is here is seamlessly part of the whole site.
http://forum.joomla.org/

How can i take whole header or footer and wrapp it around the forum?

what do I need?

vJoomla uses vBulletin's template engine so a wrapping of module positions around the forum body requires you to modify the header and footer template in the vbulletin admincp. (Styles and templates -> Edit Templates)

This isn't too difficult - you do the header stuff and the left column and module positions in the header. You can call any joomla module by including $modules[POSITION] in the template, where POSITION is the position you want at that point in the flow. End the header template with an open div or td tag, then close that tag in the footer template. Put the right column materials in this template.

While you're in there you can see the templates that define how Joomla lays out it's content and modules. (They all start with jos_ ) You can change these from the default tables to div's if you wish, just be careful - modifying those templates is NOT for the faint of heart. However it does give you a degree of control over the output of vJoomla not possible with standard Joomla (at least until version 1.5 goes final).

Another word of caution - by default vJoomla provides no styling definitions for Joomla's default css elements. This will probably be the last thing I add before going gold but it might affect some of the modules.