[shadowraith]

I wrote the initial add-on for Joomla! 1.5 however since I needed to roll back to 1.0.15 to support the numerous modules/bots, I no longer have those files.

As far as making such a wrapper? You can generate a wrapper by defining your absolute joomla path ($myjoomlapath), template name ($myjoomlatemplate), and, for say, rocket themes, style name ($myjoomlastyle). I would also add these as parameters so that you can easily change them in the vBulletin settings, should you decide to switch themes/styles.

Then, it is a matter of removing the joomla calls in the add-on xml, adding the code to fetch the parameters, and replacing $this->baseurl, $this->template, and $tstyle, respectively, in your head, header, & footer php files. In addtion, you would need to replace the "menu code" with your own home-grown menu function.

Since the concept of this add-on is fairly straight forward, it is simply a matter of hacking this add-on to work with Joomla! 1.5. Or otherwise put, if you are comfortable with Joomla! 1.5 and vbulletin, and have solid php coding knowledge, a 1.5 hack such as the above, while tedious, should be quite simple. Ymmv, of course.

The down side is that a hacked implementation, such as the above is not dynamic. In other words, if/when you switch Joomla! styles, you would also need to change them in the vBulletin settings area. You would also need to upgrade your menu function anytime you changed the main menu. If I went this route, I would create a sharable menu include file, so that regardless the template, that menu function would always be included into the wrapper.

And finally, I have no doubt there is a better approach than the aforementioned for 1.5. However, migrating to 1.5 is not on my "to do" list atm, so unless that changes, I will not have time to investigate it further.

If you have other questions, feel free to pm me.