VBulletin Question, would love some help

[gokeeffe]

I am looking to integrate a new front-end onto my vbulletin installtion. I have nearly completed it now so I am wondering how I can do this.

I have the following file structure:

Forum(folder where VB is stored)
Images2(folder for images for my new interface)
Includes2(this file contains my header and footer html files)
Index.php
Contact.php
Articles.php
Etc

Now here are my includes files where I call my header and footer and also a call to another database I have.

<?php
// Include the header file
include_once ('includes2/header.html');

// Set the page title and include the header
$page_title = 'Welcome to askaboutvalidation.com';

// Include the configuration file
require_once ('includes2/config.inc');

// Connect to the database
require_once ('includes2/mysqlconnect.php');
?>

This is where I want the VB to go

<?php
// Include the footer
include_once('includes2/footer.html');
?>


Basically what I need to find out is where do I place the following code so that my vbulletin forum will have the same header and footer as my new format

Many Thanks in advance

[Toneboy]

I was going to suggest getting the contents of your header.html file and pasting that in the header template, but that really doesn't handle php at all (I think they use the a string called php_include which you have to call later). If all you're doing though is calling up database details then you should be okay with leaving out the include for config and connect as vB does that for you.

Have you got a test forum you can test it out with?

[gokeeffe]

That's the problem i don't have a test forum so I'm kind of worried about messing the live forum up. I have tried to get a response from vBulletin but they just referred me to another forum where I got no reply.

Basically all I really need to know is where do I place the following

<?php
// Include the header file
include_once ('includes2/header.html');
?>

This is where I want the VB to go

<?php
// Include the footer
include_once('includes2/footer.html');
?>