[Colin F]

thank you for the replies.

I use the forums to power my home page, kind of like a portal. There is a links database that shows up on all of the forums. The posts/replies show up on all the forums. The users login/pass works on all of the forums. The "live chat" is integrated with the user/pass.
[/QUOTE] There is a link database modification available (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=60403).

I don't really understand why you have seperated your forums though, as that sounds like one big forum with a lot of subforums (maybe different styles...)
There are a few chat modules available that can be integrated.

Originally Posted by shortbus1662

There are custom "pal" boxes that show up on the side bar, like google ads, phpadsnew banners, html links, and other boxes with html that I can edit really quickly. I can specify where I want the box to appear ie Middle, left, right, and order.

You can add a sidebar simply by editing the templates

Originally Posted by shortbus1662

I have photopost and reviewpost integrated, which I think integrates with VB already so that isn't an issue. I have a usermap that integrates with the login/pass. I don't know if that's on VB or not.

As far as I know both can easily be integrated into vBulletin

Originally Posted by shortbus1662

I have games, but that's already on VB I know. Subforums.

We have the v3Arcade, which should fit your needs. I'm not sure what the Subforums comment means...

Originally Posted by shortbus1662

I have contest software from UBI DOG (event-handler.com I think) which is integrated, that would be a big one.

I don't know of any contest software currently available, but maybe someone can correct me

Originally Posted by shortbus1662

I have a forum specific meta data and descriptions mod, which is imperative.

Not sure about this one, but I'm sure something like this could be easily implemented, even if only through template conditionals.

Originally Posted by shortbus1662

User webs from webumake which vb already has. Also an "articles section". I did have articles software that I used (same as trackpads) but there was no integration so we stopped using it. That could be an issue (helpful) I guess.

There is an article addon available. I'm not sure what you mean by user webs.

Originally Posted by shortbus1662

How do the search engine mods work? Does it add the slashes like this / ?
That is a big thing for me. A BIG THING, because I have over 40,000 pages indexed, mostly forum pages.

Can you explain this a bit better?
The vBulletin search engine works off a searchindex, or (currently in a testing phase) using mysql fulltext searching.

Originally Posted by shortbus1662

I think that's pretty much it, in terms of mods/hacks that I have that I'm not sure will work if I move to VB.

What I want:

I want to be able to transfer all of my threads stuff over.

There is an official importer for ubbthreads: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...2&postcount=12

Originally Posted by shortbus1662

I want to have a site that is controlled 75% by VB. All of the content pages would be controlled by vb. I suck at html, etc. so that is basically the only way I can change the pages of my site--via the forum software or wysiwyg.

vBadvanced CMPS might be interesting for you, along with the article mod and photopost or whatever else you want.

Originally Posted by shortbus1662

I want to have user email integrated. So when a user is logged into the forums they can check their email without logging into it seperately.

I know there is a Hivemail integration, but I've never worked with it.

Originally Posted by shortbus1662

I want total integration.

Are these all possible with VB? If so, what kind of cost am I looking at for all of it?

The total integration is only for my site basically. The other sites just run the forums although there are 3 other sites on my server that use the IIP (portal software for threads) to control their pages.

If someone can answer these questions and let me know what cost I'd be looking at for all of this, etc. I would be VERY GRATEFUL.

Also, thank you very much for the previous responses. I didn't realize I could get the licenses that cheap. I totalled it up and was looking at a lot more than that even with the discounts for multiple. Still confused on that.

Thanks!

--Aaron

Hope I answered your questions more or less. I can't really estimate the cost, but I'm sure it will quite some work...