Introduction

There are two main levels of integration:

1. You want to integrate purely on a look-and-feel basis. (and get something looking like what we have here)

2. You not only want to integrate look-and-feel, but you also want to integrate the login/logout system and (as such) achieve single sign on.

Integrating PunBB on a look-and-feel basis

Install punBB in a subdirectory: we'll assume you use “forum”
Go to the template directory: forum/include/template
Edit main.tpl

Just below the <body> tag, add the following:

<!-- forum_include "wolfcms-header.php" -->

Just above the </body> tag, add the following:

<!-- forum_include "wolfcms-footer.php" -->

Save the file
Go to the user directory: forum/include/user
Create a file called: wolfcms-header.php

Add the following code:

<?php
    $url = 'http://www.yoursite.here/wikiforumheader.html';
    echo file_get_contents($url);
?>

Save the file.
Create a file called: wolfcms-footer.php

Add the following code:

<?php
    $url = 'http://www.yoursite.here/wikiforumfooter.html';
    echo file_get_contents($url);
?>

Save the file.
Go to your Wolf CMS admin area and login as administrator.
Create a new layout: “footer”
Add just your footer code to the footer layout
Create a new layout: “header”
Add just your header code to the footer header
Create a new page “wikiheader”
Set its layout to “header”
Set its status to “hidden” and save
Create a new page “wikifooter”
Set its layout to “footer”
Set its status to “hidden” and save

That should be it… if you now go to http://www.yoursite.here/forum you *should* see your forum with the header and footer from your site… From there, just tweak the forum's CSS code a bit.

howto/integrate_other_software_into_wolf_cms.txt · Last modified: 2011-09-12 00:46 (external edit)

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