To the User who wrote this: This is the most poorly documented thing I have seen in my entire life. Mr User SHAME SHAME SHAME.

Hello grundybin.

vbDrupal, and Drupal in general may be a type of software you are not familiar with. It is open source software licensed under the GPL and is maintained by communities and users just like you.

As such you should feel free to contribute to the documentation in areas you can help.

Oh ignore me. I couldn't make sense of it because it looked too 'simple' but it was a simple operation so its all good

Just installed vbdrupal. Seems to be working well and great job by the vb team.

I would like to encapsulate the vBulletin forum within my drupal header and blocks as has been done on this site but I am rather simple. Could someone please point me in the right direction.

my paths are:
://localhost/vbdrupal
://localhost/vbdrupal/forum

Really appricate any advice.

pancho

ive had this same issue for weeks and i cant find a resolve for it yet, it seems to be broke.

I am looking for this solution as well. Everything documentation wise seems to point toward making your drupal site look like your vbulletin forum. I want my drupal site as is and just want to put my vbulletin forum inside its theme just like this site.

I tried a variety of searches but without luck. Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks

i posted a quickie guide here that might help -
http://vbdrupal.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1011

I appreciate the quick reply.

I think where my confusion stems from is this site itself. It looks like a drupal site with the danger4k theme wrapped around a vbulletin installation. So you would think that by default if I installed vbdrupal that I could mimmick the functionality of this "showcase" site where the software originated. Yet, I get an opposite effect. I can make my site look like vbulletin but not make vbulletin look like my drupal site (as is the case here.)

Am I the first person ever to be confused by this ?

P.s. I looked at the link provided but I do not see how that is going to bring the css attributes of the drupal theme to vbulletin.

I have been thinking about this and maybe I phrased my question wrong, so I am going to try again:

Lets say I had a clean install of vbdrual to the root of my server and in a folder called "forums" I had vbulletin installed just like this site. Lets say I also had the danger4k theme installed in my drupal themes directory and had it enabled. After doing that I created a new menu item called "forums" and it linked to the forums directory where index.php for the vbulletin installation was located.

What would I have to do so like this site when I clicked on that forums link, the actual forums were still encompassed in the danger4k theme (just like this site?)

Thanks!

nope. but when i started with vbdrupal, i was a noob to both drupal and vbdrupal, so i wasn't sure what i was doing. and you're right: this site is drupal with the danger4k theme wrapped around it. and yes, you can do this with vbdrupal, but it's not an automatic function.

you didn't look at the whole thread, did ya?

essentially, wrap vb in the drupal theme, you have to figure out the container structure from your drupal theme to recreate it in vbtemplates, which is what that link i provided talks about. and at the end of that thread, i talked about css styles specifically.

to give you an idea, here's what i did for where i am now..i started out with bluemarine for my site, since it's a simple layout and i'm not an expert drupal themer. i did a "show source" on the display to get the html code it generates for that theme.

from that, i grabbed the code and pulled it into dreamweaver and put notes in there so i could get the basic layout structure. i made up a dummy page from that code so i know what tables it put in, where the sidebars where, etc. and figured out where my vb would go (i.e. the content part of the page). i used this for a reference. adding comments, when you put it in your vb templates, you can see what's displaying where.

the trick now is figuring out how to wrap your vb, right? if you go through the link i provided, it shows where to add the sidebar blocks. this is essentially what you're doing when you wrap your drupal theme: emulating the layout in the vb templates and adding the drupal provided region content with those block variables in the structure you've recreated on the vb side.

the table code will need to be specific for the drupal theme you're trying to emulate, but the locations in the templates should be about the same places if your'e doing left and right sidebars and footer...it takes some trial and error to get it to look the same on both sides. (note: some additional work will be required to get the site search or primary links to display/work properly on the vb side if they aren't being called from a block region. if that's what you're doing, it can be done with a phptemplate theme and is beyond the scope of this response, but the basic look you can do pretty easily.)

on the css -- i grabbed the list of all the stylesheets drupal was pulling (drupal performance setting changed to not aggregate css for the work), and diabled and enabled them one at a time via commenting out the lines in my vb template header to determine which ones conflicted with my vb styles. once you figure this out, you may have to go down to the style rule level for conflicts for the style sheet, but this allows you to narrow it down a little at a a time. it also keeps you from pulling lots of style sheets you don't need in your vb side.

this takes a while, but allows you to get the drupal styles you need without conflicting with your vb styles. i arrived at the process from trial and error, after i tried pulling all drupal styles first, then trying to manually figure out the specifc style rules i needed and add them to vb's style area, etc. i spent a few days on this and the one-at-a-time stylesheet did the best. the css drupal uses is a little more advanced than i'm used to. if you're a css whiz, it might not be the easiest way for now.

and i matched the colors, etc. on my vb theme to look good with my drupal theme.

in other words, there's not a setting you can just turn on to put your forums in the content area of your drupal theme. it does take some work.