You would be correct in assuming that.
However note designing a header and making the navbars display are relatively simple things. The purpose of this integration in the past was to pull the header so we could use the Threads stylesheet. Photopost by default pulls the stylesheet and a user can display a a header by simple html with php switchs for links that require whether a user is logged in or out for it not to display. I have posted quite a few times a sample header in the old Integration thread how to do this with 4.8.2. These are all normal functions one can do with Photopost without any hacking.
If one wants the IIP sidebar to display or not thats a simple hack as well and it would be advisable to write a hack simply for that. That way there is no need for further code alteration to do things Photopost by default does. I may do that for those interested in pulling the IIP sidebar.
I was never asked permission if someone could alter and repost my work. That by default is the status quo in any hacking community. Besides the only two users posting in this thread have stated the hack posted here does not work, hense my warning to others not use this hack. It does not seem to work for anyone and posted without permission.
Posted here is a sample header you can use as a guideline to see how to pull the same header as Threads over Photopost.
<?
echo <<<PPPRINT
<table width="100%" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td class="tlc">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
<td align="left" class="topleft">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="70" height="10" alt="" /></td>
<td width="100%" class="top">
</td>
<td align="right" class="topright">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
<td class="trc">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="left">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
<td width="100%" colspan="3">
<table width="100%" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tablesurround">
<tr>
<td>
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="tableborders">
<tr class="tdheader">
<td colspan="3" align="center">Welcome to ReefTalk</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="logo">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td class="right">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="blc">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
<td align="left" class="botleft">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
<td width="100%" class="bottom">
</td>
<td align="right" class="botright">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
<td class="brc">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
<table width="100%" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td class="tlc">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
<td align="left" class="topleft">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="70" height="10" alt="" /></td>
<td width="100%" class="top">
</td>
<td align="right" class="topright">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
<td class="trc">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="left">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
<td width="100%" colspan="3">
<table width="100%" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tablesurround">
<tr>
<td>
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="tableborders">
<tr>
PPPRINT;
if ( $User['userid'] > 0 ) {
echo <<<PPPRINT
<td align="left" valign="bottom" width="25%" class="menubar">
Welcome {$User['username']}.
[<a href = "{$Globals['vbulletin']}/logout.php">Logout</a>]
<br />
<a href = "{$Globals['vbulletin']}/login.php">My Home</a>
·
<a href = "{$Globals['vbulletin']}/contact/mycontacts.php" $target>My Contacts</a>
PPPRINT;
}
echo <<<PPPRINT
<td align="left" valign="bottom" width="75%" class="menubar">
PPPRINT;
if ( $User['adminedit'] == 1 ) {
echo <<<PPPRINT
<a href = "{$Globals['vbulletin']}/admin/index.php">Admin</a>
·
PPPRINT;
}
echo <<<PPPRINT
<a href="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/ubbthreads.php/Cat/">Main Index</a>
·
<a href ="
http://www.reeftalk.com/index.php/Cat/" target="_top">Entrance</a>
·
PPPRINT;
if ( $User['userid'] > 0 ) {
echo <<<PPPRINT
<a href = "{$Globals['vbulletin']}/mypaymentpal/mypaymentpal.php" $target>Subscription Area</a>
·
PPPRINT;
}
if ( $User['userid'] > 0 ) {
echo <<<PPPRINT
<a href = "{$Globals['vbulletin']}/showmembers.php?Cat=0&page=1" $target>User List</a>
·
PPPRINT;
}
echo <<<PPPRINT
<a href =" {$Globals['vbulletin']}/search.php?Cat=" target="_top">Search</a>
·
<a href =" {$Globals['vbulletin']}/online.php?Cat=" target="_top">Who's Online</a>
·
<a href =" {$Globals['vbulletin']}/faq.php?Cat=" target="_top">FAQ</a>
·
<a href ="
http://www.reeftalk.com/bio.php">Staff Bio's</a>
·
<a href ="
http://www.reeftalk.com/sponsor.php">Sponsor's</a> ·
<a href ="
http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/index.php">Photo Gallery</a>
·
<a href ="
http://www.reeftalk.com/reviews/index.php">Reviews</a> ·
<a href =" {$Globals['vbulletin']}/chat/chat.php">Chat Room</a>
·
<a href =" {$Globals['vbulletin']}/links.php">Site Links</a>
·
<a href ="
http://www.reeftalk.com/shop.php">Reeftalk Store</a>
·
<a href =" {$Globals['vbulletin']}/calendar.php?Cat=" target="_top">Calendar</a> · <a href = "{$Globals['vbulletin']}/contactus.php">Contact Us</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center" class="darktable">
<a href='http://www.reeftalk.com/plugins/phpAdsNew/adclick.php?n=a95d6f32' target='_blank'><img src='http://www.reeftalk.com/plugins/phpAdsNew/adview.php?what=zone:1&n=a95d6f32' border='0' alt='' /></a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tdheader">
<td colspan="2" align="center">Support our Sponsor's</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td class="right">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="blc">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
<td align="left" class="botleft">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
<td width="100%" class="bottom">
</td>
<td align="right" class="botright">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
<td class="brc">
<img border="0" src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/stylesheets/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
PPPRINT;
?>
Note this is for information only and would need to alter but would see how you need to surround links that only display for logged in user's or admin etc.