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You know I really really like VBulletin. I moved from a n SMF/Joomla bridged forum (bridge was rubbish, joomla overkill and not integrated enough, have to use a lot of non integrated features and in the end users did not use the Joomla stuff). SMF was also slow and nowhere near as good as Vb for a number of reasons.

However the one thing I struggle with is a CMS. I've got VBadvanced, Subdreamer (and looking at Vbportal,). I've now narrowed the search to VBdrupal or VBadvanced.

However what I really want is a CMS that can really integrate with VBulletin , showing the modules and exposing any of the VB functions into the portal bits, yet can also look nice and show a good page.

Nothing exists like this. It's crazy. I would pay $150 for some kind of CMS that gave me this feature. I would suspect that 1000's of others would also pay for this .

Joomla is very good and growing all the time in features. Looks like Drupal is also a good contender. In my opinion if there was a VB release that could integrate fully with one of those two options (with a lot of modules thrown in) then they would have a hit on there hands.

I thought Subdreamer might be the answer but there's not enough modules that expose VB data, it does look nice however but lacks (VB calender, photpost/photoplog/vb blogs etc). I don't want to have to code this stuff. I bought a license with the intention of paying for a nice skin, they do some great free skins as well but this lack of VB modules puts me off.

I want Vbulletin to be at the heart of any CMS I use, not an adjunct. At the end of the day my site is my forum and my CMS is just an extension of that. Well it would be if it existed. (I've seen the Joomla /VB integration is doa)

I might well choose the VBDrupal route or get someone to professionally skin a vbadvanced implementation to make it look less blocky. But it's driving me crazy. If Jelsoft owned a decent gallery implementation (Photoplog or photpost) and a CMS addon they would have made another $300 out of me. It would be worth it in terms of time saved. I want life to be easy.

First to get a decent CMS with a decent forum wins I think, Joomla/fireboard is a couple of years off at least to get to a decent stage imo), I also find a lot of the Joomla community builder stuff just overkill as well.

Jelsoft, I will pay good money for this.

EDIT-- I've just seen the post mentioning VIVO and PHPFOX. Doh. Right I have two more candidates to evaluate now. Please someone make my life simple.