Vbulletin and wordpress header and footer integration problem

gajodoporto · 18-01-2019, 11:14 PM

So im working in a project that will have Wordpress has the main page and then vbulletin as a forum. I already connected both platforms with a plugin so the users can login either in wordpress or in vbulletin.

Now for the design part, I want the vbulletin forum page to have the wordpress header and footer, searched on google and found that that can be achieved by creating a plugin/hook in vbulletin like this:

Code:
ob_start();
 include( '../wp-load.php');
 include('../wp-content/themes/Avada/header.php');
 $wp_header = ob_get_contents();
 ob_end_clean();

after that just insert $wp_header in vbulletin header file.

Problem is nothing happens, all I get is "$wp_header" written on top of my vbulletin page.

EDIT:
I have my wordpress installed in a folder 'apostasgreen',
and vbulletin in the folder 'apostasgreen/forum'.
maybe my file paths are wrong?

EDIT 2:
Getting slowly there, got a few improvements after searching in google:

1. Do not use 'global_start' while creating the plugin, instead select 'global_bootstrap_init_start'.
2. I found this code so I changed it on the plugin and this time something actually shows up:

Code:
ob_start();
 include('../wp-load.php');
 include('../wp-content/themes/Avada/header.php');
 $wp_header= ob_get_contents();
 ob_end_clean();
 
 $preRegister['wp_header'] = $wp_header;
 vB_Template::preRegister('header', $preRegister);

After changing this code I also added this '{vb:raw $wp_header}' to vbulletin header theme file. Now it shows like this:

[Image: PyRdiZB.png]

I think some css code is missing here, maybe path to css files are wrong, any help here please?
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Vbulletin and wordpress header and footer integration problem

Submitted by gajodoporto, 18-01-2019, 11:14 PM, Thread ID: 117502