Multiple domain/subdomain forums

[enigmarokker]

I too am looking for the same exact type of information. I run a joomla site with other joomla sites sharing the same user databases beneath it, and I also have the vbulletin forum tied into the SAME user database as all of the joomla sites and sub-sites. Why is this potential modification/customization important for some websites? Well for me personally this is why... Please read on and I'll explain the current situation and then what I'd ideally like to be able to do with my forum system.

For example I have a content management system (joomla) site setup as the main page, and from there the users can visit different video game fan sites, like a horror game site, a first person shooter game site, a racing game site, etc.

What stinks is that all of my current joomla game sites were built with a custom vbulletin skin to go along with each site (for example a horror site skin, a battlefield 2 site skin, etc) and I primarily want to setup main categories for each site within the same forum such as shown in the post above.

So the layout would be:
Main Site => Default vBulletin Skin

Categories:

Horror Site => Only shows horror site skin when inside of this category
Battlefield 2 Site => Only shows BF2 site skin when inside of this category
Racing Game Site => Only shows racing site skin when inside of this category


If it's possible to make it so that only the specific game's categories are shown while within a certain domain name, that'd be cool too but I would require this as it seems a difficult programing job to start messin with if/then's on domain names. I really dont care what forums are displayed depending on what URL that I go to.

Rather, I really want to make it so that I can specify what skin goes with what main category (and make each main category skin un-alterable to users). Of course, the main site also has it's own vBulletin skin which would be the default-visible-skin until a different site's category is clicked on, thus a different category has a different default skin.

I want to be able to assign a different default skin to each category from the vBulletin back-end and not have to hack tons of core files, I'd rather patch core files as long as the files I'm over-writing wont have stock vbulletin variables altered or deleted (other than the skin variables being added to) I'm willing to pay money for this. Please email me at enigmarokker@comcast.net and send me a quote, the sooner this can be done the better. Thanks in advance!

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