added a template, how to call it in global.php?

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by offlead

Don't know if you saw my detailed post about this integration issue on the .com forum, but the solution could lie either on the vb or the pp side. At the moment it's up to admins to figure out how to handle it. Since I have only the most very basic grasp of php, my solution for the moment (other than bringing it up to the developers on both sides, since this is a very common integration) was to create extra pages and copy the html for the subscriptions form -- in pieces -- into the various pages, then see if I can figure out how to restrict access to those pages.

Little baby steps.

Jeniffer

but does photopost use vBulletins templates or no?

[offlead]

Sorry, it's starting to get late. Well, and I'm starting to get old. The mind is slipping.

PP does not use VB templates. PP has a hack available that will bring in the vb header and footer, and another that you can use to display gallery listings in the forum index display, along with some featured photos thumbnails. But PP itself still uses the PP templates.

However, when I finish up with some of the items on the top of my list, further down the list is to circle back round to PP. I already edited all of the PP template files in order to bring in vb style classes and to tweak the layouts, in order to get a better "vb" feel to the gallery. I need to still figure out how to bring in the correct button sets based on which style a user is using. But PP can be set up to draw on vB for the registrations and membership info. It can import usergroups from vB. That's how we're setting access to certain things at the moment. But it is only recognizing the primary usergroup that a user is in, not the secondary usergroups. Thus, in order to grant extra gallery space based on paid subscription in the vb system, the subscription has to change the primary usergroup, rather than just tacking on a secondary usergroup for the user. The resulting issue is that users who are looking at the list of subscriptions in vb can actually bypass the first level membership subscription, and just subscribe to one of the upgrade packages, and this gets them full membership access to the site.

Is that clear as mud? LOL!

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by offlead

Sorry, it's starting to get late. Well, and I'm starting to get old. The mind is slipping.

PP does not use VB templates. PP has a hack available that will bring in the vb header and footer, and another that you can use to display gallery listings in the forum index display, along with some featured photos thumbnails. But PP itself still uses the PP templates.

However, when I finish up with some of the items on the top of my list, further down the list is to circle back round to PP. I already edited all of the PP template files in order to bring in vb style classes and to tweak the layouts, in order to get a better "vb" feel to the gallery. I need to still figure out how to bring in the correct button sets based on which style a user is using. But PP can be set up to draw on vB for the registrations and membership info. It can import usergroups from vB. That's how we're setting access to certain things at the moment. But it is only recognizing the primary usergroup that a user is in, not the secondary usergroups. Thus, in order to grant extra gallery space based on paid subscription in the vb system, the subscription has to change the primary usergroup, rather than just tacking on a secondary usergroup for the user. The resulting issue is that users who are looking at the list of subscriptions in vb can actually bypass the first level membership subscription, and just subscribe to one of the upgrade packages, and this gets them full membership access to the site.

Is that clear as mud? LOL!

ah ok, it would be so nice if PP DID use vB's templates for the intergrations, it would allow so much. ><

[offlead]

Actually, I have faith that the PP developers will fine-tune the integration quickly. They have vb3 installed on their dev site, and there are folks over there working through the issues. I just can't wait around for them to finish the task.