Using Different vB Style for Photopost

[shakeme]

I've run into a little bit of a problem with the vB integration and my site's branding options. I use photopost for my gallery with a domain (shakephotos.com) and my forums with another (shakeforums.com). Each has it's own separate logo and menu bar. While I can reset the header using the header files, I'm finding that

(1) I'm hoping to change the header to use my shakephotos.com logo instead of the shakeforums.com logo that appears. (Note that you also have to change the absolute paths to a hard encoded one or else you'll get nothing in the header because photopost won't find the graphic!)
(2) My navbar menu is using the vB menu which includes "home" as being the vb forums home and not photopost. Confusing.

I'm wondering the best way to either

(1) "import" my current vb style into photopost so I can change the nav bar and get rid of that link in the header from my forums (this is a complex xml style), or
(2) Choose a different style to use with photpost. I can duplicate the current style and call it "vbcopy" and then have photpost use vbcopy and I'd make the necessary edits.

I'm sure others have seen similar.

[shakeme]

Sweet. As suspected, if you add a ?styleid=XX to your queries then Photopost shows up as a specific style. Michael, you'd probably know this. It seems that the default style is set in pp-inc.php and I'm wondering whether the return of the query for the default style is a number. If so, which line is it for vbulletin and that I can just hard code a style number to use? e.g. $defaultstyle = 6;

I'm also wondering if you have specific forums for photopost, whether it will use the style specifically set for that particular forum in photopost.

This is an EXCELLENT workaround to get a separately branded photopost forum using VB styles that you have with minimal hassle.

[b6gm6n]

Hi..

Have a look in /forums/vb3.php and header-inc.php for the style calls etc

-T

[funkmiester]

Has anyone got any further with this one? I'd also like to be able to use a different VB style (for header reasons) on the PhotoPost pages.

I looked at '/forums/vb3.php' and 'header-inc.php' but couldn't figure things
out

[b6gm6n]

Have a look at a mod over at vb.org here might help.

-T

[funkmiester]

Thanks, I'll give it a whirl, although it would be nice to be able to do something similar within Photopost itself. In my case my VB header includes images that clearly state forum/message board, and I'd like to use my gallery header images in the header instead since that's what users will be viewing when in the gallery! Anyway, thanks for the info.

[funkmiester]

That mod works great but it's messing with my footer, so I'm 'kinda back to square one! Arggh