wordpress mybb wrapper?

[Sander k]

Do you use somekind of wrapper from wordpress to add the header and footer to mybb? Or how did you do that?

 

[Genesis]

@Sander. Is this discussion directed at every one, or at DJB only?

 

[admin]

It's external nav pulled in across gigalicous website using cURL.

 

[PeaceSigns]

Why would you pull it in via CURL? If they're hosted on the same environment, you can include the file - saves on processing power and resources (I think CURL uses more than a regular include).

 

[admin]

It`s also being used on the gi9.co domain, server status script, which is powered by smarty templateing, it was quicker and easier to use cURL.

 

[Sander k]

I have no knowledge of Curl :-(
Is that easy to do for you?
How much would you ask if I wanted you to do the same for me?

 

[PeaceSigns]

Curl is really simple - here's an example from php.net - http://www.php.net/manual/en/curl.examples-basic.php

You basically throw it a URL and it'll pull it and spit out the contents for you. You can of course parse it as needed. If you're trying to reference a file on the same machine/hosting account - just use the include (e.g., include("../directory/somefileonsite.php"), otherwise you can use CURL to pull in the html contents (meaning if you're calling a PHP file - you'll get the contents that it spits out, not the actual php code).

 

[Sander k]

Can you do that with vBulletin 4 as well?

 

[PeaceSigns]

Of course, it's basically just placing a header above the actual script itself.

Essentially something like this:

<?php
include("master-header.php");
?>

If you wanted to do it across a forum, you could do this:

<?php
include("http://www.mysite.com/master-header.php");
?>

Although I don't recommend that for the reasons I mentioned above.