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Matux · #1 08-26-2009, 02:47 PM

Hia,

I've been working a bit with figuring out of how to best be able to integrate vBulletin into our website, and i have to say i have struggled a bit. The ideas are there, but the methods required for getting there is another matter.

So, what i've ended up on as the seamingly best sollution, is something along the lines of what they have done at http://www.swgemu.com/forums/

Now, my question is how much work is involved in writing a theme like this?
Is it ALOT of template writing, as i presume you will have to write some sort of templates for the "none-forum" related pages (news, links, etc etc)?

Or even better, does anyone know of any themes that does this already?
Been looking around for a while, but not been able to find any myself unfortunately.

Any help regarding this will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Matux

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Oh, and i forgot to mention that im somewhat fresh when it comes to writing / editing templates for vBulletin. Only been doing small adjustments in the templates so far.
PHP and HTML is not a problem.

Lynne · #2 08-26-2009, 03:40 PM

They've basically just added a left div to the header to put that additional navbar on the side. As for how much work it would be? I don't know since I've never tried it. But, if it is just the header as it looks like it is, I don't imagine it would be too hard.

Matux · #3 08-26-2009, 05:07 PM

Yeah, that thougth struck me aswell, but i have alot of php code in the header section, (Navbar, etc), and i dont know how to manage this trough the template code.

Im also most likely gonna run into some CSS problems, but its probaby smartest to add the CSS code from the site into the aditional CSS fields for the theme?

Lynne · #4 08-26-2009, 05:37 PM

They added the additional css through a call to a different stylesheet. You can also handle it by adding to the addition css fields at the bottom of the Main CSS page.

Addiitional php can just be added through a plugin.

Matux · #5 08-26-2009, 06:34 PM

Alright, i've been playing around with this for a bit now, and it seems to be doing what i want it to.

Thanks alot for the help.

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