Custom Portal

[Bill-Kill]

I posted this on vBulletin.com and they directed me over here, so hopefully you guys could help me.

I am going to make a custom portal for my forum, and want to know what files I would need to use to integrate it. I was looking at global.php, I think that is the correct file for all the variables that I would need. But the problem is, I'm not sure if this is the correct file I would need to use or not, plus the file is HUGE, so it is hard to look through it all. I also need to know where the style's CSS listings are, so I can make my portal look like our forum also. I would REALLY appreciate it if someone could write a small tutorial (or long if you have time ) to explain what file to use, what variables would be useful, and where the CSS is located.

Thanks in advance to anyone who is willing to do such a huge favor for me!

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[Bill-Kill]

Thanks, but he does not show how to get current posts put inside the table. Does anybody know what you would add into that code to do that?

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You'll need to use a few MySQL queries. You should really mess with this stuff unless you've got all the basic stuff down.

[Bill-Kill]

What do you mean by the basic stuff? vBulletin's code, or other coding languages?

[EnIgMa1234]

vBulletins Code.

For example you would use this to read the database.

$query = $vbulletin->db->query_read("QUERY HERE")

Then to fetch the array you'd use
while ($var = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($query))
{
}

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Originally Posted by Bill-Kill

What do you mean by the basic stuff? vBulletin's code, or other coding languages?

vBulletin's systems/code and PHP (which is what vBulletin is coded in).

[Bill-Kill]

I know my PHP pretty well, so I guess I have to get acquainted with vBulletin's code more before going on this venture.

[Kirk Y]

It's basically the same - just a matter of using classes to do all the work for you. You may do good to have a look at some of the Portals released here, there are several "lite" ones that are nice and simple, without all the bloat of others.