Beta vBulletin Integration for phpFoX Konsort 1.6 RC2 Released!

Posted September 24, 2007

With our past versions of this plug-in it required clients to modify their vBulletin source code. Which isn’t a hassle the first time around, however it can be a hassle once you need to upgrade your vBulletin and then figure out what files to modify again. With this update we have integrated phpFoX using vBulletins hook system which stores all plug-in related calls in their database. In return this should help you not worry when it comes time to upgrade in the future.

Part of the hook system is during the install of this plug-in it will automatically update your vBulletin templates to look and feel like the default phpFoX template. Giving your users the illusion that your sites are in no way separated.

One major inconvenience in the past was how the main menus on the vBulletin side would not match up with the phpFoX templates unless you hard coded parts of the plug-in files. With this new plug-in all the menus (top, main & bottom) are connected to the phpFoX menu class which displays all the current links you have on your phpFoX site. So you won’t have to worry if you add a new menu in the phpFoX Admin CP or if you were to translate your site into another language.

With the improvements there have also been several bug fixes for this plug-in which include:

This is currently the first official release for this plug-in for the version 1.6 release so this plug-in is still considered beta. There is currently no support for this plug-in, however if you run into any problems please take the time to post it in our official issue tracker: http://tracker.phpfox.com/

Stable release for this plug-in will be released with the stable release of Konsort v1.6, if not sooner.

We have a live demo setup for this plug-in and it can be viewed here: http://benchmark.phpfox.com/vbulletin/

To download this plug-in it can be done direct from this thread.