Paul wrote:
And I'm going to change my user title to "bizarre and baroque"
No offense intended!
1 2007-02-15 02:53
Re: PunBB forum with Textpattern front end (14 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)
2 2007-02-14 15:02
Topic: PunBB forum with Textpattern front end (14 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)
Guntards.net is basically a PunBB forum, but I wanted to front-end the forum with Textpattern as a way to provide news and announcements, maybe run a little guntard blog.
There are three possible approaches to a job like this:
1. Hack Textpattern to look more like PunBB;
2. Hack PunBB to look more like Textpattern; or
3. Hack them both to look like something completely new and fresh and different.
Well, 3 was out of the question for me, and since PunBB's CSS is so bizarre and baroque, I decided to make a Texpattern site look pretty much like default PunBB.
Contrary to the suggestions in the Punres wiki, I changed the header graphic in the main.tpl template rather than the imported CSS file, but I made a lot of additions (almost no other changes) to the PunBB CSS. I'd be happy to answer any questions about how I did what I did.
Textpattern, of course, was a joy to work with and presented no problems.
By the way, if you think you might be a guntard, feel free to register at the forum. You will be one of the first official guntards!