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integrating Vanilla into a page

meresmeres
edited April 2008 in Vanilla 1.0 Help
Id like to integrate a vanilla board into a site i am working on. This site has user accounts, using php and mysql. So I will be altering the database for the site to use the same user table as the vanilla board. I'm a little unsure of how to have the vanilla board displayed inside my site, as well as not having the user to login twice, (once for my site, once for the vanilla board). One option I am considering is rebuilding the site based on the vanilla board, although this would be a hassle. Let me know if this is unclear at all, and I'll try to add more details. Thanks Meres

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  • WallPhoneWallPhone
    edited April 2008
    Here are two threads that touch on the topic, they are quite old, so some things may be a bit different:
    http://lussumo.com/community/discussion/1300/
    http://lussumo.com/community/discussion/2381/

    As far as integrating Vanilla into an existing site, this is a technique I used:
    1. Create a file called forum-template on your site i.e. mysite.com/forum-template.html. It should have the look and feel of your site, and be complete with title, stylesheets, etc. as needed. In the content of the file, put nothing but [Forum], this "magic word" is where Vanilla will insert it's content into that file for every Vanilla page view.
    2. Install Vanilla in a folder on the site
    3. Go into the themes/ folder of the Vanilla folder, and copy the head.php and page_end.php files into the themes/Vanilla/ folder
    4. Go in that folder and edit the head.php file you just copied there, adding some code to the bottom like this:$BodyId = ""; if ($this->BodyId != "") $BodyId = ' id="'.$this->BodyId.'"'; // Echo the forum-template.html file, inserting the title, the meta tags, and everything up to the [Forum] tag $template = file_get_contents($this->Context->Configuration['APPLICATION_PATH']. '..\forum-template.html'); $template = explode('[Forum]', $template); $this->Context->PageFoot = $template[1]; $template = $template[0]; $template = preg_replace('#<title\b[^>]*>(.*?)</title>#i', '<title>'. $Title .'</title>', $template); $template = str_replace(array('href="', 'src="'), array('href="../', 'src="../'), $template); $template = preg_replace('#<\/head>#i', $HeadString .' </head>', $template); echo $template . ' <div'.$BodyId.' '.$this->Context->BodyAttributes.'> <div id="SiteContainer">';
    5. Edit the page_end.php file like this:<?php // Note: This file is included from the library/Framework/Framework.Control.PageEnd.php class. echo '</div>'; echo $this->Context->PageFoot; ?>
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