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.

[emath]

listen when i trying to enter my account in wiki i get these messages :

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /mounted-storage/home94b/sub006/sc49471-HPSH/www/maagar/LocalSettings.php:1) in /mounted-storage/home94b/sub006/sc49471-HPSH/www/maagar/includes/User.php on line 1947

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /mounted-storage/home94b/sub006/sc49471-HPSH/www/maagar/LocalSettings.php:1) in /mounted-storage/home94b/sub006/sc49471-HPSH/www/maagar/includes/User.php on line 1950

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /mounted-storage/home94b/sub006/sc49471-HPSH/www/maagar/LocalSettings.php:1) in /mounted-storage/home94b/sub006/sc49471-HPSH/www/maagar/includes/User.php on line 1956

user.php lines 1940-1970 :

PHP Code:

    function setCookies() {
        global $wgCookieExpiration, $wgCookiePath, $wgCookieDomain, $wgCookieSecure, $wgCookiePrefix;
        $this->load();
        if ( 0 == $this->mId ) return;
        $exp = time() + $wgCookieExpiration;

        $_SESSION['wsUserID'] = $this->mId;
        setcookie( $wgCookiePrefix.'UserID', $this->mId, $exp, $wgCookiePath, $wgCookieDomain, $wgCookieSecure );

        $_SESSION['wsUserName'] = $this->getName();
        setcookie( $wgCookiePrefix.'UserName', $this->getName(), $exp, $wgCookiePath, $wgCookieDomain, $wgCookieSecure );

        $_SESSION['wsToken'] = $this->mToken;
        if ( 1 == $this->getOption( 'rememberpassword' ) ) {
            setcookie( $wgCookiePrefix.'Token', $this->mToken, $exp, $wgCookiePath, $wgCookieDomain, $wgCookieSecure );
        } else {
            setcookie( $wgCookiePrefix.'Token', '', time() - 3600 );
        }
    }

    /**
     * Logout user.
     */
    function logout() {
        global $wgUser;
        if( wfRunHooks( 'UserLogout', array(&$this) ) ) {
            $this->doLogout();
            wfRunHooks( 'UserLogoutComplete', array(&$wgUser) );
        }
    } 


please help me.. its something with headers that already have sent.. shall i disable one of the functions above ?

[emath]

in addition when i put in the search a valid keyname (i mean it has a page on this name) and hitting "Go" it gives me a blank page, though the "search" is working good...

[emath]

ok nvm.. tnx for the plugin

[Jaxel]

You got it working? What was wrong?

I made this skin wth the NEWEST version of MW.

[Dave Alcock]

Thank you. Works great!

[Vitaly]

Looks awesome! Thanks!

Offered for MOTM.

[ehsanix]

first of all thanks and 1 major question
what about forums in which "width" is not full screen and have background image ?

[GoodOmens]

Works great on my site!

http://www.lineagejunkies.com/forum/
http://www.lineagejunkies.com/wiki/Main_Page

[hollosch]

Hi,
how can i change the linkcolor for "wanted pages", when i use the ccs file from my vb-Style ?

thanks

[carrlos]

This is a great addition!!! I have one situation that I hope someone can help me with: I am gettig two "TOOLBOX" and two "SEARCH" boxes on my page now. One set is expanded and the other is not. Any ideas??

http://www.androidmodding.com/wiki/Main_Page