1 forum, 2 sites. Possible?

[kr580]

Sorry, I'm a bad searcher.

I am looking merge with another forum (a phpBB forum) but they want to keep their domain/layout while I would like to keep my domain/layout. Is it possible to have www.site1.com & www.site2.com with their own designs but share the forums? Basically i would first want to be able to put it on 2 different domains (not just a mask... site1.com/forums/index.php & site2.com/forums/index.php) , and then have each domain have it's own default layout... but have the same exact forums/threads/posts. When I post on site1.com it shows up on site2.com as well.

Possible? Please let me know if I need to clarify anything.

[Hellcat]

At the very first, you'd need two valid vB licenses for a setup like this!

Technically this should be possible with a few modifications to the board (not sure if plugins only are able to do the trick) and every decent coder with some vB knownledge should be able to do this.

[Stangsta]

Originally Posted by kr580

Sorry, I'm a bad searcher.

I am looking merge with another forum (a phpBB forum) but they want to keep their domain/layout while I would like to keep my domain/layout. Is it possible to have www.site1.com & www.site2.com with their own designs but share the forums? Basically i would first want to be able to put it on 2 different domains (not just a mask... site1.com/forums/index.php & site2.com/forums/index.php) , and then have each domain have it's own default layout... but have the same exact forums/threads/posts. When I post on site1.com it shows up on site2.com as well.

Possible? Please let me know if I need to clarify anything.

Its easy, only if you are truly merging the databases.

To use VB on both:

Merge the 2 forums to 1 domain using impex. Take the other domain and have it redirected to the merged domain.

For the layouts keep your existing VB layout. And for the other, you will have to create a new style and recreate the PHPBB style. I dont believe there is a converter for that. But when all is said and done, it would be 2 sites with merged databases on 1 domain, with the other domain redirected. And the users will be able to choose thier own style. I think that will be the closest you can get.

This you can do with 1 license.

[kr580]

Hellcat, I was wanting to do this with 1 license hence my asking. If I had 2 it would be no problem.

Stangsta, thank you. What I had so far was merge into mine with Impex and redirect www.site2.com to /index.php?styleid=x. You've confirmed my thoughts. I didn't want just redirecting but I guess i'll have to.

Thank you.

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Oh, one more thing. If I were to just redirect it to a different style is there a way to change the site name somehow? normally it would be 'Site1 Forums > General Discussion' ... any way to make the different style show 'Site2 Forums > General Discussion'?

Would be tacky to have the 1st site's name all over the 2nd when it's a different domain/name.

[Hellcat]

You could "hardcode" the site name in the template(s) for each style and remove the dynamic variable.

[Stangsta]

Originally Posted by kr580

Hellcat, I was wanting to do this with 1 license.

Stangsta, thank you. What I had so far was merge into mine with Impex and redirect www.site2.com to /index.php?styleid=x. You've confirmed my thoughts. I didn't want just redirecting but I guess i'll have to.

Thank you.

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Oh, one more thing. If I were to just redirect it to a different style is there a way to change the site name somehow? normally it would be 'Site1 Forums > General Discussion' ... any way to make the different style show 'Site2 Forums > General Discussion'?

Would be tacky to have the 1st site's name all over the 2nd when it's a different domain/name.

Unfortunately not. The styles pull that info from the vbulletin options in the admincp. Being you only have one admincp, you can only have one name. If you go the route using 2 licences and pay a coder to do the dirtywork, then yes, there is a chance it could be done (nothing is impossible, just have to know the right people).

Just a thought, maybe an <if> statement that says "if styleid=X use this name". You will have to ask someone else about that. Thats too deep for me.

Originally Posted by Hellcat

You could "hardcode" the site name in the template(s) for each style and remove the dynamic variable.

yeah...thats what I was getting at. :up:

[kr580]

I'm only good at editing code that's already there. Any ideas of what I would put and where?

[Hellcat]

Originally Posted by kr580

I'm only good at editing code that's already there. Any ideas of what I would put and where?

In the "GENERIC_SHELL" template of each of the two styles you gonna use for site1 and site 2 find this:

<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - $pagetitle</title>

and change it to something like this:

<title>Sitename - $pagetitle</title>

It's also possible to make it more dynamic with a plugin initializing a custom variable depending on the URL called or something like this.

[kr580]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

In the "GENERIC_SHELL" template of each of the two styles you gonna use for site1 and site 2 find this:

<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - $pagetitle</title>

and change it to something like this:

<title>Sitename - $pagetitle</title>

Doesn't work. Still displays the forum's normal title even with <title>asfioajfiafj - &pagetitle</title>

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ooh, found it.

			<div class="navbar" style="font-size:10pt"><a
href="$vboptions[forumhome].php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="1"><img
class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/navbits_start.gif"
alt="" border="0"/></a><strong>$vboptions[bbtitle]</strong></div>

Replace that bold with whatever you want. That at least gets the ForumName > General Discussion part changed.

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Aah, the <title> isn't in the headinclude... it's at the top of FORUMHOME. About 10 lines down.

(dumb automerge :speechless