Miscellaneous Hacks - vBulletin Style Skin for MediaWiki

vBulletin MediaWiki Skin

The purpose of this mod is to get your MediaWiki to look like your forums... A lot of people have been having trouble getting their Wikis to look streamlined with their forums, this is my first attempt.

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INSTALLATION
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1. Upload the contents of the "upload" folder to the "skins" directory of your Wiki installation...

2. Go into WIKIDIRECTORY/skins/vBulletin.php and replace all instances of <URLTOFORUMS> with the URL to your forums (ex: http://www.vbulletin.com/forums), make sure to leave the trailing slash off.

If you use the standard vBulletin skin, you are DONE. Your new skin can be selected or forced in your Wiki settings.

If you use a customized skin, please read the following steps...

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CUSTOMIZING
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3. Go into your vBulletin AdminCP > vBulletin Options > Style & Language Settings and make sure that "Store CSS Stylesheets as Files?" is set to yes and working. If it is, go into your FTP and download the CSS file from FORUMDIRECTORY/clientcript/vbulletin_css/, if you find multiple stylesheets in there, make sure to take the one with the same style sheet ID as the style you would like to enable for your Wiki. Rename this file to vbulletin.css and copy it over into the WIKIDIRECTORY/skins/vbulletin/ directory, overwriting the existing file.

4. Go into WIKIDIRECTORY/skins/vBulletin.php and find the section called <!-- HEADER -->. Make edits to this area to match the header to your skin. You can not use vB variables in this area, so make everything absolute. Be sure to remember to set the variables for the spacer_open variables towards the end.

5. Go into WIKIDIRECTORY/skins/vBulletin.php and find the section called <!-- FOOTER -->. Make edits to this area to match the footer to your skin. You can not use vB variables in this area, so make everything absolute.

6. If you know anything about skinning the Wiki, feel free to edit other areas. I have tried my best to limit the need to edit other areas.

[Tmnoonan]

I installed everything per the instructions, but I am still getting:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: makeglobalvariablesscript() in [Path to my site]/wiki/skins/vBulletin.php on line 117

[Tmnoonan]

Oh, looks like I have an old version of MediaWiki...

[Mastergumble]

I almost set everything but cant find how to make the header expand, i set the left and right logo's but dunno how to get that "liquid" expandable effect...

Anyone can help me on this?

[JakeS]

Thanks a bunch! This will come in really handy for me :-)

Setting up a theme now with it :-)

[Spinball]

Originally Posted by Dexter_kcd

I am trying this out, and also had the problem of having two search and tool boxes, which I have edited out. The other problem I am noticing is that the buttons to collapse the boxes on the left sidebar are not working. Are these simply for show?

Having this same problem also.
Did anyone find a solution?

[pjkcards]

This is a good mod.

How did you get the navbar to show up on the wiki as well? I see that this mod only makes the CSS the same, but doesn't bring the navbar over. Thanks!

[grey_goose]

Can't seem to get it to 'save' the skin change. ??? Preview is just fine.

[hexmode]

I'm working on getting the MW tarball working in more places and would like to work with you to get this working on newer versions of MediaWiki. Please ping me.