Integration??

[LorraineMc]

Yup....here I am asking a real "newbie" question.....What is "Integration"? and why would I or should I use it?

Thanks in advance for any help.....:)

[Black Tiger]

Integration is to integrate pages in your vBA or the other way around, depends on how you look at it.:)
Suppose you want a right side column on your forums, then you can integrate the index.php (and some other like forumdisplay.php etc. whatever you want) into the vBA. Then you can select to put a right column and what you want in that right side column, for example a navigation block, an adsense block etc.

When calling your forum homepage, you will see them. For this to happen, you have to integrate the page.
Previously (in version 2.2.x) this was done by adding some lines in the .php files to call the modules. With the new version vBA, these file-edits are not necessary anymore.

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[Brian]

Integration basically allows you to place modules from the CMPS on any of your vBulletin powered pages.
You can see an example here (http://forum.talkabouttennis.com/) (the Recent Posts and Recent Blogs sections on the right are from the CMPS integration)

[LorraineMc]

cool beans Brain....you are the man....better watch out cause if I ever find out where you live....I would have to live outside the law and kidnap you...lol

Told you it was a "newbie" question...seeing the link you provided helped alot.....cause I only have cmp as my forum index page right now.....with integration then I would have my whole forum looking cohesive. (right?) COOL...

Any guides to add module to that index page "for dummies"? Or for creating a new page "for dummies"? (I did check the maual....not to up to date...)

Thanks again for your help....

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[HenrikHansen]

Try follow this basic guide for integration

http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22586

[Brian]

cool beans Brain....you are the man....better watch out cause if I ever find out where you live....I would have to live outside the law and kidnap you...lol


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