Need some help.

[Nickb]

Ok, so I am a complete newb to this, and I was wondering how I can integrate THT into my own site.

I have all my own custom coding, graphics, etc. But When people want to make an order, does it have to be strictly on THT site, or can it be my own order form?

Thank you,
Nick

edit: Also this is just a test site/testing out how I want the style to be, but it's like this: http://idtest.tk and this is the order form: http://idtest.tk/submission.php Yeah allot of SQL DB errors, only because I'm just trying to get the visual up.

[Kevin]

Essentially, you need to take your site's HTML and put it into a header.tpl and footer.tpl file. Take a look at the default "Reloaded2" theme.

[Nickb]

What if everything was made out of PHP? I notice PHP isn't allowed.

[Kevin]

Is it highly dynamic?

[Nickb]

No, just everything is set up within PHP. like:

<?php
include("includes/header.php");
include("includes/navmenu.php");
?>

and

<?php
$news_articles = $vf -> get_recent(Array(
"board" => "news",
"mode" => "topics",
"show_locked" => "1",
"allow_all" => "1",
"max" => "1"
));
foreach($news_articles as $post) {
?>


Everything works with PHP, and API. Basically everything gets called from another folder. and placed onto the main page, the only thing that doesn't get called is the Intro text on the main page.

[Nick]

because if the way THT handles SQL Security, you are going to have a difficult, if not impossible time trying to create your own order page, which is a serious bit of coding in THT. Your best bet is to modify the theme of THT to match that of your site. To make your headers and other match, just open up header.php and copy the html code from that into header.tpl, and match up stuff like CSS links, and so on.

[Nickb]

Alright, thanks.

I'm gonna have API working with cPanel and my site then. Where my members can order from the sites own page, and it automatically creates the account upon approval, which shouldn't be all that hard really. I'm not even sure why I really need THT, I mean with the forum software I already use, API could automatically load the users post count from the P2H section of the forum into my own Administration Panel. Which my own host said it was fine.

But great software none-the-less.

Also, love Cloud. But Seph is more Epic.

[Nick]

Good luck with your site, most people don't have your kind of experience, hence THT. (btw, I'd love to see your system once it is finished ).

[Nickb]

I have someone helping me with the PHP/API side, But I'm learning a great deal from him. and THT is a great helper for many. I'll recommend it to people whom want to start their own web hosting service. Yeah, I can show you once it's complete, probably wont be done for quite awhile though. I want everything in a working order before I start getting members. I have a few people interested, and I already have someone hosted.