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.

[leonnix]

thanks Hollosch, that helped !

[leonnix]

I edit the copyright for my wiki but it doesn't appear ! what should I do ?

[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?

[geda]

I have installed it , everything is fine but its not showing my LOGO. what might be wrong? Its not showing non of the image files.

Any suggestions?

[Dexter_kcd]

Originally Posted by leonnix

I edit the copyright for my wiki but it doesn't appear ! what should I do ?

If you did not get that sorted out yet, the copyright tag is not added to the footer text in the skin. You need to open Vbulletin.php. Find:

<?php	$footerlinks = array(
	'lastmod', 'viewcount', 'numberofwatchingusers',
	);

Change to

<?php	$footerlinks = array(
	'copyright', 'lastmod', 'viewcount', 'numberofwatchingusers',
	);

This adds the copyright notice as the first line of the footer. You can the placement of it by moving it elsewhere in that array.

Dexter...

[Dexter_kcd]

What I would really love to see on this skin is at the top, in the navbar area, instead of having the info on when the page was last modified and the number of views, is to have the Vb login form there if someone is not logged in, and the Private Message notification stuff if they are logged in. I gave it a try using the require call to global.php, but I could not seem to just copy and paste that stuff from the navbar template over to this skin file.

Any ideas?

Dexter...

[Rev O]

Originally Posted by leonnix

Ok Carrlos I find out the problems ! All you have to do is to fix your mediawiki:sidebar page. Go and look for these line *Tool and *Search then delete them !

Hello,

Which file exactly do you have to edit?

Thanks

Originally Posted by Dexter_kcd

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?

Ditto.

Does anyone have a fix for this?

[kapoor22]

Thanks for the great hack.

Any chance this hack would work with vb version 3.6.8.

Thanks!

[Daniel Richter]

I have a problem with this hack. Using 3.7.4 and it makes me this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method SkinvBulletin::tooltipAndAccesskey() in /var/www/vhosts/tvwiki.de/httpdocs/skins/vBulletin.php on line 216

Does anyone know why it is an error? I only did these changes, which are named in this thread!

[dutchbb]

Is it possible to only add header and footer (static) from the vb forum? Leaving the wiki code as it is?