Integrate with Invision Board

How can I get my trial version to integrate with my invision power board the way the board on this forum integrates into www.esselbach.com?

That is to say, when someone clicks on the link to my forum, the form opens into my site instead of openining in a new page outside my site homepage.


I like this cms; I will buy a copy.

Thanks.

Originally posted by Manuba:

How can I get my trial version to integrate with my invision power board the way the board on this forum integrates into www.esselbach.com?

Invision Board and Storyteller CMS are using two different template systems. The bbwrapper script allows Storyteller to use the Invision Board user database for logins, but not the same templates.

For full design integration, you need to customize both the Invision and Storyteller templates.

Originally posted by Manuba:

That is to say, when someone clicks on the link to my forum, the form opens into my site instead of openining in a new page outside my site homepage.

Where? In the main menu?

To change this, you need to use the parameter target="_blank" in the templates.

For example:

<li><a href="forums/index.php" target="_blank">Forums</a><br /></li>

For full design integration, you need to customize both the Invision and Storyteller templates.
Where? In the main menu?

To change this, you need to use the parameter target="_blank" in the templates.

For example:

<li><a href="forums/index.php" target="_blank">Forums</a><br /></li>

Philipp:

Maybe I did not make my comment very clear.
I want Invision forum TO OPEN INTO Storyteller, NOT in a new page via target="_blank"

Also I DO NOT want Invision to open in a new window via target="_self"

Look at your own homepage (www.esselbach.com) and see how your "community" link behaves when clicked --- it opens and integrates into Storyteller. That is how I want Invision to behave. Is this possible?

Thanks

I just found an easy way to integrate Storyteller's header/footer template with Invision Power Board. IPB must be installed in a subdirectory (e.g. yoursite.com/forum) and Storyteller in the root directory to get this working.

Open sources/functions.php in an editor and replace:

        $this->do_headers();
		
        print $ibforums->skin['template'];
        exit;

with

        require("../templates/site_header.tmp.php");
        $EST_TEMPLATE = str_replace("img src="", "img src="../", $EST_TEMPLATE);	
	$EST_TEMPLATE = str_replace("a href="", "a href="../",$EST_TEMPLATE);
	echo $EST_TEMPLATE;
	
        $this->do_headers();
		
        print $ibforums->skin['template'];
	
	require("../templates/site_footer.tmp.php");    
        $EST_TEMPLATE = str_replace("img src="", "img src="../", $EST_TEMPLATE);	
	$EST_TEMPLATE = str_replace("a href="", "a href="../",$EST_TEMPLATE);	
	echo $EST_TEMPLATE;
        
        exit;